News Archive - 5 June 2023

Iran to officially reopen diplomatic missions in S Arabia

The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Riyadh and the Consulate General in Jeddah had started their practical activities before the departure of the Iranian Hajj pilgrims, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani said on Monday, adding that the said missions will be officially reopened with the presence...

IRGC rejects claims over merchant ship in Strait of Hormuz

Unfortunately, the enemy media resort to false news to justify the illegitimate and unjustified presence of extra-regional countries in the Persian Gulf, Rear Admiral Abbas Gholamshahi said. On Monday, United States Navy claimed that its sailors and the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the crucial...

Eydian wins silver in 2023 Asian Junior Athletics C'ship

On Monday, Eydian clocked 1:00.01 minute at the women’s 400-meter hurdles at the Yecheon Stadium in the eastern South Korean county of Yecheon and landed in second place. Japan's Takino Miko grabbed the gold medal with 58.91 seconds, and Koloda Anastassiya from Kazakhstan registered 1:00.39 minute to...

Armed attack leaves 5 dead, 8 injured in Ecuador

According to eyewitnesses, three men who arrived on a motorcycle in the Isla Trinitaria district, in the southern part of the city, broke into a house where they “shot several times”, News Bulletin 247 reported. “We have five dead and eight injured,” police director Fabri Modalvo told a press conference.

Ukrainian offensive foiled, hundreds of Kyiv's troops killed

The ministry announced the victory in an early Monday statement without specifying whether the attack was the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, which Kyiv has been promising for months. "On the morning of June 4, the enemy launched a large-scale offensive in five sectors of the front in the South...

SA pledges oil cuts in July as OPEC+ extends deal into 2024

Saudi's energy ministry said the country's output would drop to 9 million barrels per day (bpd) in July from around 10 million bpd in May, the biggest reduction in years. "This is a Saudi lollipop," Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz told a news conference, Reuters reported. "We wanted to ice...

Russia starts naval exercises in seas of Japan, Okhotsk

Russia's Pacific Fleet forces have started operational exercises in the waters of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk that will last until June 20, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday, according to Reuters. "More than 60 warships and support vessels, about 35 naval aviation aircraft, coastal troops,...

Yerevan, Baku may sign peace treaty by end of 2023

"Negotiations are going very intensively, if we maintain this intensity and there is strong support from the international community to achieve progress, then there is a chance to have a peace agreement by the end of the year," Grigoryan told Armenia’s First Channel. The Armenian side intends to achieve the...

Baku Airport denies cancellation of flights to Tehran

"Flights to Iran are operated as usual," the airport told Trend. Earlier, a number of media sources reported about the alleged cancellation of all flights from Azerbaijan to Iran. The reports came a day after the Republic of Azerbaijan leveled some accusations against Tehran and issued a warning against traveling to...

30 killed in armed attacks on Nigerian villages

Police in Sokoto said the people killed belonged to a vigilante group in the Tangaza local government area. Prior to the attacks, some members of the vigilante group went to the Azam village of the area to warn the community there against possible violence, Xinhua reported.  "However, the vigilante...

Azerbaijani people must scared of Israeli regime 'not' Iran

Nasser Kan'ani criticized the anti-Tehran move of Baku officials in issuing a warning against traveling to Iran on Sunday. This is the same policy adopted by the head of the fake, child-killing, and occupying regime of Israel during his recent trip to Baku, Kan'ani tweeted on Monday. The people of Azerbaijan...

Progress made in implementing Iran-IAEA joint statement

In early May, the IAEA installed surveillance cameras in Iranian facilities where centrifuge equipment is produced, Rafael Mariano Grossi said. In order to monitor the level of uranium enrichment produced by Iran in the said facilities, the IAEA, for the first time, installed an enrichment monitoring device in the Fordow and Natanz...