Ibuprofen is a medication commonly used to reduce pain and inflammation, but a new study suggests that the drug may also reduce the risk of death from lung cancer among former and current smokers…

The Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) has prioritized the people's satisfaction and intends to step up efforts to follow up on all the calls made to the hotline for public complaints against the police…

China has offered the Philippines government a firearms deal, President Rodrigo Duterte revealed in a speech on Dec. 11.

He said that he has directed Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to…

The Chinese government has warned Donald Trump it is “seriously concerned” after the US president-elect indicated he might jettison a four-decade understanding with Beijing unless its leaders were…

The Syrian Army and militias have retreated from the central quarters of Palmyra to positions in the city’s suburbs, Al Ekhbariya television channel said on Sunday citing Homs Province Governor…

The Syrian Army has gained control of 93% of Aleppo’s territory, with 52 neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city liberated, the head of the Main Operations Department at Russia’s General…

Turkish police have detained 118 people in raids across Turkey targeting officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) over allegations of links to Kurdish PKK militants.

There has been no proof any secret services somehow influenced the outcome of the presidential campaign in the United States, Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said.

The French government has announced an anti-pollution plan, including a financial boost to buy electric vehicles, as Paris and other cities in the country are emerging from a particularly severe…

Although Gorgan Bay is seriously threatened by drought and pollution, the situation does not seem important enough to merit swift action from the government, a provincial official said.

The process of moving polluting units out of Tehran into industrial zones has been slow because the infrastructure isn't there and small units have received no support from the authorities, the…

More than 740 newly recognized bird species were added to the International Union of Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species earlier this week, including 13 species that were…

A Tehran district mayor said the felling of 1,700 trees in Chitgar Forest Park was "inevitable" and pledged to make up for the loss.  

The reality of climate change is an open question, US president-elect, Donald Trump, said in an interview aired on Sunday.

"Nobody really knows" if climate change is real, Trump said in the…

Turkey’s motor vehicle output totaled 150,681 units through November rising 19% year-on-year (y/y), as well as 3.3% up month-on-month (m/m), according to the monthly statistics released by the…

South Korea’s outbound shipments of cars, one of the country’s top exports, are set to decline for two consecutive years this year, handing over the world’s third-largest auto exporter title to…

The contract between Iran and France’s Peugeot “is a joint venture which is owned 50% by Peugeot and 50% by Iran Khodro Company,” (dubbed IKAP) said Mohsen Salehinia,  the deputy minister…

A locally-engineered car platform, the NP01, was unveiled on December 11 at the Automotive Engineering Research Center at Iran University of Science and Technology.

Present at the unveiling…

The Ministry of Industries, Mine and Trade has warned illegal auto companies and again cautioned car buyers to stay away from their tempting presale schemes, especially for imported vehicles.

The Iraqi Army has sent reinforcements to eastern Mosul after IS fighters launched a ferocious counterattack last week, pushing back government forces and further slowing a nearly two-month-old…

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has been asked to form a government by the country's president.

President Sergio Mattarella has been looking for a replacement for center-left…

An official with Iran’s Ministry of Agriculture says close to 140,000 hectares of land have been dedicated to the production of organic food on a par with European standards.  “Consumers need…

An Iranian industrialist lamented that there is no trust in domestic shipbuilders.

Talking to reporters, Hamid Rezaeian-Asl, the managing director of Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore…

Iran’s trade with Turkey during the seven months to October 21 has jumped by more than 80% compared with last year’s corresponding period.

According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs…

A permanent exhibition of Iranian products, including foodstuff, apparel, shoes and handicrafts, opened in Moscow’s Food City, the main wholesale food center in Russia on Sunday. Some 50 Iranian…