NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday he was certain that US president-elect Donald Trump will lead the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and he is hoping to speak to Trump soon…

Germany saw a massive uptick in asylum seekers from Turkey in 2016. Much of it is due to the failed coup in July and ensuing crackdown on human rights and press freedom.

A German newspaper…

Iran’s nuclear organization dismissed criticism that Tehran has overstepped a limit on its heavy water stockpile, invoking the loose wording used in the text of the nuclear agreement to specify…

Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi traveled to the French capital on Thursday to hold the second round of regular political consultations with French…

Iran warns of Israel’s bid to erase the Islamic identity of Al-Quds, after Israeli lawmakers gave the initial approval to a bill that grants legal status to illegal settlement outposts in the…

Head of the Center for Strategic Research of the Expediency Council Ali Akbar Velayati hailed growing relations between Tehran and Beijing, saying it is important to develop the ties to “strategic…

President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday felicitated Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said on the Arab country’s National Day. In a message to Sultan Qaboos, the president congratulated the Omani…

Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations rejected “unfounded” allegations by nearly a dozen Arab states that Tehran was meddling in their internal affairs.

The US Senate will vote to renew sanctions on Iran for 10 years before adjourning next month, the chamber’s Republican leader said on Wednesday, sending the bill to the White House where President…

US Senator Bob Corker cast doubt on Wednesday that president-elect Donald Trump will reverse the Iran nuclear deal, saying such a decision would distract his fledgling administration in its first…

Portugal is the country that enjoyed the best economic performance between July and September in the eurozone, latest official figures have shown. According to Portugal Statistics, the country’s…

China’s outbound direct investment is surging despite weak global growth as Chinese companies continue to internationalize their business.

Non-financial ODI increased 53.3% year-on-year to…

The Kuwaiti government is planning to impose tax on expats’ remittances and companies besides privatization of healthcare and education sector, TradeArabia quoted a report by Kuwait Times as…

Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of over $3.3 billion from January to October 2016 with foreign direct investment companies continuing to outweigh domestic firms in export revenue, according to…

The Indonesian central bank, Bank Indonesia, has revised down its forecast for Indonesia’s economic growth in 2017 from 5.1-5.5%  to 5-5.4%, because the global economy is not expected to…

Pakistan has been facing serious challenges, including low savings and investment levels, falling exports, poor spending on the social sector and reliance of the tax structure on stopgap measures…

The economy and elections top the list of the nation's most important problems in Gallup's first post-election update of this question. Around 14% of Americans identify the economy as the most…

Norway should limit what it spends from its $860 billion wealth fund to avoid creating economic imbalances, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, after the fund grew faster than the…

Production and consumption of gold has declined by two thirds during the past five years as a result of consecutive price swings, said Mohammad Keshti Arai, head of Tehran Gold and Jewelry Union…

Banks have recovered 203 trillion rials ($6.3 billion) of their non-performing loans during the past three years,” said Gholamreza Malekshoar, head of Central Bank of Iran’s Office for Banking…

The Central Bank of Iran is negotiating with international credit card issuers and preparing the infrastructure for the official reentry of the payments technology companies, says the bank…

Head of the Tehran Association of Realtors says the volume of real estate deals in the capital rose 18% since the start of autumn, a trend which he hopes would extend to other parts of the country…

India has carved a new geopolitical beginning in the Persian Gulf region by putting Chabahar in the grand canvas of its geo-economic calculus in the emerging Asian architecture.

However,…

Tehran Stock Exchange and Iran Fara Bourse may separate their trading systems to better handle trading traffic that has caused headaches for investors in recent months. “This is an opportunity for…

During the past week, stocks mainly recouped losses that they incurred on November 9, after Donald Trump was announced as the new US president.

Tehran Stock Exchange's main index gained 857…