The Global Business Travel Association, representing business travel managers, has reported that a travel ban imposed by US President Donald Trump has cost the country's travel sector $185 million…

In a joint research project between the universities of Kerman in Iran and the Urals in Russia, a team of scientists headed to the Lut Desert to collect fragments of meteorite-like material,…

The share of Iran’s joint research papers with foreign scientists in 2016 shows a 5% increase compared to the previous fiscal year, said Minister of Science and Technology Mohammad Farhadi, at a…

Dubai has tested a Chinese prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi, its transport authority said on Monday, with the aim of introducing the aerial vehicle in the emirate by July.

The test of…

During the last four years, Iran’s fiber optic network has grown 19% with access to high-speed Internet increasing 565%, ISNA reported.  In addition, the number of villages with Internet…

More than 3,000 Telegram channels with over 5,000 members have registered their details with the Ministry of Culture following an announcement by the government in January.  

An…

The launch of Iran’s National Information Network (NIN) has barely reduced Internet prices for end users, says the chairman of the board of directors at Shatel, Iran’s largest private internet…

The display of artworks from the treasured collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) scheduled for last December at the Gemalde Galerie, an art museum in Berlin, was temporarily…

The mayor of London will join some of the leading names in British film at a free premiere screening of the Iranian Oscar-nominated film ‘The Salesman’, whose director was affected by Donald Trump…

The Islamic Architecture Center at the Art Bureau (Howze Honari) of the Islamic Development Organization in Tehran is organizing a photo contest on heritage in architecture titled ‘Identification…

Leev Theater Group, led by actor and theater director Hassan Majooni, will stage ‘Three Sisters,’ a play written in 1900 by Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) in spring.

Residents of the city of Sirte in Libya have finally received the authorization to return to their homes, two months after the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group was forced out of their…

Police in Democratic Republic of Congo launched an assault on the residence of the leader of an opposition group in the country’s capital Kinshasa early on Tuesday and fired live ammunition and…

Tunisian security forces are using methods in their war against militants that are associated with overthrown leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, including torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions,…

A Kenyan judge on Monday ordered officials from the national doctors' union to be jailed amid a strike in public hospitals, which has turned into a test of President Uhuru Kenyatta's leadership…

Pakistanis on Tuesday mourned the victims of a Taliban-claimed suicide bombing in Lahore, as the death toll rose to 15 and the city's residents railed at the government for failing to protect them…

A political odd couple, US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resolutely played up their similarities at their first meeting on Monday, even as obvious differences…

The UN Security Council has condemned North Korea for its latest ballistic missile test conducted on Sunday, a UN press statement said.

According to the statement, Pyongyang carried out…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has defended his choice to appoint former Palestinian premier, Salam Fayyad, as UN envoy to Libya and expressed his "deep" regret over US opposition to his…

Iranian banks are now able to employ all anti-money laundering (AML) measures and the framework for combating the financing of terrorism (CFT), according to the deputy governor for foreign…

In order to optimize the opportunities created by the removal of sanctions following Iran’s nuclear deal and to ease banking services to foreign investors, the Central Bank of Iran has…

All banks will now be able to access audit reports online, the director general of Iranian Association of Certified Public Accountants announced.

“Filing of requests by the banking system…

The ban on online currency trade by exchange shops will be eased and the Money and Credit Council is in charge of following up the matter, the Central Bank of Iran’s head of IT and Communication…

The Central Bank of Iran has not forced banks to stop lending, but banks can only lend if they have enough credit since the CBI strictly opposes overdrafts from its resources, CBI’s credit manager…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are so far scheduled to meet in person at the Hamburg G20 summit in July, Putin’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, noting that there has…