A high-level international commission that oversees the 2015 nuclear deal convened on Tuesday to address Iran's complaint over the extension of a US sanctions law for another 10 years.

A US…

A US Navy destroyer on Sunday fired three warning shots at four Iranian fast-attack vessels near the Strait of Hormuz after they closed in at high speed and disregarded repeated requests to slow…

Iran confirmed receiving an invitation to discuss preparations for the next annual hajj pilgrimage from Saudi Arabia. Seyyed Ali Qazi-Askar, the representative of the Leader of Islamic Revolution…

The Iranian Parliament has approved a bill obliging the government to enhance the country's defense power in line with national interests and security. The legislation was approved with 173 votes…

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said addressing the needs of the poor and underprivileged is the main duty of the Islamic Republic.

Iran is reportedly to receive a large shipment of natural uranium from Russia to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant, unnamed diplomats quoted by the AP said.

Two senior…

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered in central Tehran on Tuesday for the funeral of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Ayatollah Rafsanjani was laid to rest in the…

At a time when the currencies of emerging economies are being squeezed hard, the Thai economy, Southeast Asia’s second largest, is showing encouraging resilience. But being able to absorb shocks…

The Turkish lira hit record lows against the dollar as expectations of faster tightening by the US Federal Reserve added to domestic economic and political pressures emerging market equities in…

Rating agency Standard and Poor’s has cut Poland’s GDP growth forecast for last year to 2.8% and to 3.2% for next year, Radio Poland reported. Previous S&P’s forecasts had predicted the Polish…

Kenya’s economic growth is expected to slow down to between 5.4 and 5.7% in 2017 down from 6% in 2016, analysts said on Monday, Xinhua reported. Cytonn Chief Investments Officer Elizabeth Nkukuu…

UK business optimism is rising fast on the back of an upbeat outlook for the UK economy, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP. Business…

The EU has proposed broadening privacy protections in electronic communications, including tracking by advertisers, in a bid to promote a digital single market worth tens of billions of euros, RTE…

French industrial production posted a surprisingly strong rebound in November, adding to a brightening outlook among both consumers and companies to signal a sharper-than-expected pick-up in…

Asian Development Bank operations for Asia and the Pacific reached all-time high of $31.5 billion in 2016, a 17% increase from $26.9 billion in the previous year.

Approvals of ADB loans,…

Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation jumped for the second month since the pound was freely floated last year to reach 23.3% in December from 19.4% in November, the official CAPMAS…

On Sunday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raised the country’s minimum wage by a whopping 50%. But it wasn’t much of a surprise—the country has already raised the minimum wage four times in…

The International Monetary Fund has warned Tanzania that the country’s economic policies threaten its forecast for growth in fiscal year 2016/17 (July-June) of around 7%, Yahoo reported. President…

German industrial production rose in November, adding to signs that Europe’s largest economy saw a strong finish to the end of last year.

China vowed on Tuesday to contain high company debt levels and further cut excess coal and steel capacity, as Beijing attempts to maintain solid and more balanced economic growth while avoiding…

A couple of days before the last federal election, (former premier) Stephen Harper said the economic plan Justin Trudeau was pitching to the electorate was “all unicorns and rainbows.” While it…

Russia needs clear economic policies to prevent shocks from oil prices, though stability is expected at $40 per barrel, a development minister said.

Following a couple of years of reduced exploration and production investments, spending by global oil and gas companies is expected to increase by 7% in 2017, for the first rise in three years,…

Iran Central Oil Fields Company and Razavi Oil and Gas Development Company have signed an agreement to develop Tous Gas Field in Khorasan Razavi Province, managing director of East Oil and Gas…

Five petrochemical projects are expected to go on stream by the end of the current fiscal year in March 2017, the head of National Petrochemical Company said.