News Archive - 13 April 2022

The incident on the Moskva missile cruiser occurred after ammunition on board blew up, Interfax news agency quoted the Russian defense ministry as saying, according to Reuters. "As the result of a fire on the Moskva missile cruiser, ammunition detonated," it said in a statement. Maksym Marchenko, governor of...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to call killings in Ukraine “genocide” and his reference to Russians as a “brotherly” people. “Such things are very painful for us, so I will definitely do my best to discuss this issue with him,” Zelenskiy said at a press conference n Wednesday...

The convoy was targeted with roadside bombs, Sabereen News telegram channel reported citing Iraqi sources. No further details about the possible damages or casualties have been released yet.

Asia: Iran to issue free visas during World Cup 2022 Etela'at: Kabuli people gathered in front of Iran embassy to show unity with Iranians Iran: Saudi Arabia calls for negotiations with Iran in gas field Jomhouri-E Eslami: Western democracy collapsing Kayhan: Israeli regime taking last breaths Afghan people condemn...

Arab news sources reported that 3 Palestinian citizens were killed in Husan, Silwad and Nablus by the Israeli regime's forces. The Zionists also injured dozens of other Palestinian citizens in West Bank. The national and Islamic forces in Ramallah and Al-Bireh strongly condemned the Zionist crimes and declared general mourning and...

The Iraqi army said in a statement on Wednesday that "extensive security operations" were launched in Wadi al-Shay and the Hamrin Mountains in Kirkuk province. According to the statement, the operations were launched with the aim of clearing the region from the terrorist elements of ISIL. Hamrin mountain region, an area that...

Mahdi al-Mashat urged the United Nations to take the necessary measures for the reopening of Sanaa International Airport in the shortest time possible. Referring to the ceasefire violations made by the Saudi coalition, al-Mashat said that the Yemeni armed forces will adhere to the ceasefire only as long as the other...

A group of people in Bahrain held pro-Palestinian rallies in various parts of their country, including Karbabad and Sanabes on Tuesday night. Demonstrators carried placards reading "Normalization of ties is treason" to protest the normalization of Bahrain's relations with the Zionist regime. The Bahraini people also chanted slogans calling for the...

The costs of the information campaign against Russia on the Internet may have climbed to above $1 billion since February 24, with 5.4 million pieces of fake news exposed, the director of the Safe Internet League, Public Chamber member Yekaterina Mizulina, said on Wednesday, TASS reported. "The spending...

“The locals in al-Qusair village from al-Ghannama clan in al-Qamishli area in Al Hasakah northern countryside prevented a convoy of four military vehicles of the occupation forces from entering the village towards the international road (M4) that passes through the area, forcing it to retreat and expelling it from...

The border guard forces with the aid of the province's intelligence service managed to dismantle the drug trafficking band and seize the opium consignment, Lashkari said. The criminal's vehicle was also busted, he added. Arresting the criminals is also on the agenda since they fled the scene, according to...

Speaking in a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran on Wednesday, Fuad Hussein said that Iraq agrees with Iran on the need to form an inclusive government in Afghanistan. Hussein said that the inclusive government must include all Afghan parties and ethnic groups. The national...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a joint press conference with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Tehran on Wednesday evening. Prior to the press conference, the two foreign ministers discussed bilateral ties and latest developments in the region in a meeting The significance of waiving visas between the two countries...

Abu Hamid bin Abu Bakr Ibrahim, also known as Farid ud-Din was born in the city of Nishpur (Neyshabur) located in the northeast of Iran. It is believed that he lived between c. 1145 – c. 1221. Attar means ‘apothecary’ and this nickname was given to him due to his...

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Palestinian news sources on Wednesday reported that the Zionist regime's forces have again brutally attacked various areas in the West Bank, including the towns of Qabatiya, Beita, Hebron and Jaba. During the clashes that broke out between Qabatiya citizens and the Zionist forces, the Palestinian citizens managed to force the occupiers to withdraw from...

The alert from the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) followed the latest food security assessments which showed that six million people in Somalia will face acute food insecurity in the coming months unless the rains come, according to UN. That is almost double the...

"This is pure Fascism," Maduro commented on remarks by Venezuelan legislator Tania Diaz who said that Russia became a victim of "global censorship" while its "culture and sports are under attack," TASS reported. The Venezuelan president spoke within the framework of an international summit on fighting Fascism organized by...

War in Ukraine and subsequently US and EU sanctions against Russia, which EU’s economy is heavily dependent on its energy, has not only affected Russia’s economy considerably but also the EU’s. Significant effects in Europe, with energy and other prices rising and probably set to continue to do so have...

Benjamin, 45, was handpicked by Hochul last August as a partner to make a new start in an office hit by scandal after Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned amid accusations of bullying and sexual harassment. He was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with one count of federal program bribery, one...

The accident early on Wednesday happened some 55 kilometres (34 miles) south of the ancient city of Luxor, as the bus was travelling to the temples of Esna on the west bank of the Nile River, provincial authorities said in a statement, AlJazeera reported.  Fourteen others – eight...

Iraqi media Sabreen News reported that one person was injured due to the blast. The explosion occurred in the Bradost area of the Erbil governorate, according to the reports. No further details about the incident have been released yet. MP...

"The United States is a major power and it bears special responsibility for the observance of the rules of the world economic system and for maintaining its stability. A situation where all other countries would have to pay for Washington’s unilateral sanctions must not be permitted," he told a...

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov made the remarks in an interview with the TASS News Agency, according to Mirror. "We are warning that US-NATO weapons transports across Ukrainian territory will be considered by us as legal military targets." "We are making the Americans and other Westerners understand that attempts...

The floods hit the province of KwaZulu-Natal, which includes the coastal city of Durban, where roads cracked and gave way to deep fissures, and a huge stack of shipping containers collapsed into muddy waters, news agency images show. A bridge near Durban has swept away, leaving people stranded on...

Two local officials reported that at least 154 people were killed in an armed attack on villages in Plateau province in northern Nigeria on Sunday. Gunmen on motorcycles entered the area and started firing, Abu Bakr a member of local council in Plateau province said. The gunmen also set...

According to the news website "Silk Way", the President of Azerbaijan said In his speech at the meeting on the achievements of the government of Azerbaijan in the first quarter of this year that the people of Nakhchivan faced a shortage of gas in the past due to the Armenian sabotage.

 In the first three months of 2022 alone, Iran shipped an average of 829,260 barrels of oil per day to China, Washington Free Beacon reported.  A total of 337,882,520 barrels of oil, valued at $22 billion, have made their way to Beijing since President Joe Biden took office. When...

"Today's (Tuesday, April 12th) article in @guardian titled “Russia using weapons smuggling by Iran from Iraq against Ukraine” is unrealistic and baseless storytelling," the Iranian Embassy wrote on its Twitter account.  "Trying to link the recent developments in Ukraine to the developments in the Middle East and mentioning the name...

"Call with FM Hossein Amir Abdollahian. Iran stands against Russia’s war on Ukraine, supports a diplomatic solution. Grateful to FM Abdollahian for refuting allegations of arms transfers to Russia with the help of Iranian companies, as well as for the medical team sent to Ukraine,"  Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote...

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the spokeswoman for the European External Action Service, Nabila Massrali, said that the parties in the Vienna talks between Iran and the P4+1 with the indirect involvement of the United States, which left the JCPOA in May 2018, are in the final stage of...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the Foreign Ministry compound on Wednesday afternoon. The Iranian and Iraqi foreign ministers are scheduled to answer reporters' questions at a joint press conference after the meeting. KI/84715532...

Following the intelligence activities of the police forces of the province, a drug-smuggling band in the southeast of the country were dismantled, said Second Brigadier General Ahmad Taheri on Wednesday.  According to the police chief, the armed gang intended to transport a consignment of illicit drugs from Saravan city to...

Iran’s attack on US Ain al-Assad base in Iraq and other moves in the Zionist regime and the United States and some other countries are harsh responses given shortly after the US assassination of former Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Commander Martyr Lt. Gen. Soleimani, showing that enemies of the...

War in Ukraine and subsequently US and EU sanctions against Russia, which EU’s economy is heavily dependent on its energy, has not only affected Russia’s economy considerably but also the EU’s. Significant effects in Europe, with energy and other prices rising and probably set to continue to do so...

This was reported by CNN on Tuesday, citing official reports from the French government, as seen by Ukrinform. "Assets belonging to the Russian Central Bank, which the ministry says are worth 22.8 billion euros, make up the bulk of the frozen assets,"  reads the report, Ukrinform reported. The...

Yemeni military told Almasirah that the Saudi coalition has violated the ceasefire by attacking different areas of the Yemeni Al-Hudaydah province. The attacks were launched by artillery and rockets, according to the reports. This is while UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg announced the beginning of a ceasefire in Yemen...

US President Joe Biden's administration is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday (Apr 13) another US$750 million in military assistance for Ukraine, two US officials familiar with the matter told Reuters. The equipment would be funded using the Presidential Drawdown Authority, or PDA, in which the president can...

"We took note of the provocative statements made by Press Secretary of the US Department of State Ned Price at a briefing on April 12 that our country could possibly use chemical weapons in the light of the alleged failures of the special military operation in Ukraine," the embassy said...

“I offer the Russian Federation to exchange this guy of yours for our boys and our girls who are now in Russian captivity,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a video posted on Telegram, Anadolu Agency reported. On Tuesday, Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine in a special operation captured Viktor Medvedchuk. Sharing a...

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Hebrew sources reported on Tuesday evening that allegations made by the Israel Security Agency (Shabak) about Beijing spying on Tel Aviv had caused diplomatic tensions between the two sides. The Zionist regime's Security Agency yesterday charged the Chinese embassy with trying to spy on Israeli ministries. Multiple Hebrew media...

On the tenth day of the auspicious month of Ramadan, the heads of power branches, officials and government authorities as well as a group of senior managers of various sectors, members of parliament, and political activists met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei on Tuesday afternoon. During...

Massive fire engulfs a four-story hotel under construction in Camarillo as the main street is closed amid fears of the building collapsing. Social media posts from local residents have revealed that the structure was a hotel that was under construction. Details published by the Ventura County's police scanner account...

Iraq's national security adviser Qasim al-Araji and an Iraqi Intelligence Service official will accompany Fuad Hussein during his upcoming visit to Iran, according to Middle East Eye. The Iranian and Iraqi sides will discuss bilateral ties and several other issues during Hussein's visit to Tehran. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein...

Asia: Shahbaz Sharif elected as Pakistan PM by lawmakers Aftab: Leader says internal affairs must not be tied to Vienna talks Ebtekar: Interior min.: Herat incident aimed at tarnish relations between Iran, Afghanistan Leader says Vienna negotiations move forward in good path Etemad: Tehran: Taliban government must guarantee...

Following the attack on the Iranian Embassy in Kabul and the Consulate General in Herat, a group of Afghan people in Kabul held a rally on Wednesday morning in front of the Iranian embassy. Afghan people held signs reading  "No to seditionists", "Afghanistan and Iran united" and "We are brothers."  The citizens who attended...

"Correction/Thank God, the country's diplomacy is on the right track. What is now being considered in [the country's] diplomacy is the nuclear issue. The Iranian negotiating team informs the president, the Supreme National Security Council and other officials about the process [of the Vienna talks], make relevant decisions, and move...

The First Coordination meeting of the International Conference in Support of Palestinian Intifada was held on Tuesday evening in the presence of a group of experts, Palestinian activists, representatives of organizations, non-governmental organizations active in the field of Palestine, Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, as well as other responsible...

In an interview with IRNA on Wednesday, Fereydoun Abbasi Davani pointed to the process of development of space technology in the country and added that space technology in the country has a long history that dates back to the eight years of Sacred Defense (Iraqi imposed war against Iran in...

TEHRAN, Apr. 14 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Thursday, April 14.              ...

SHAHR-E-REY, Apr. 14 (MNA) – The ceremony of recitation of the Holy Quran is held at Abdol-Azim Hassani Shrine (PBUH) every day during the auspicious fasting month of Ramadan with the participation of pilgrims and enthusiasts.      ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 13 (MNA) – In the ceremony on the third night of the Revolution Art Week, researchers and narrators of the Islamic Revolution and the sacred defense were honored.                   ...

Hazrat Khadija (SA) was the wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH); she was also one of the first followers of the Prophet of Islam. Khadija (SA) was an exemplary woman of great nobility and ability, insight, courage, and perseverance.

TEHRAN, Apr. 13 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Wednesday, April 13.      ...

 The flower sprouts on the plains of Iran since the middle of March. The full bloom of this flower is spectacular, but the flower’s lifespan is short.