Britain

Prince Charles visits 99-year-old Prince Philip in hospital

Prince Charles and Camilla begin weeklong New Zealand trip

10:56 am November 17, 2019

Wellington: Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived in New Zealand on Sunday for a weeklong trip, during which they plan to visit the city of Christchurch and the historic treaty grounds at Waitangi, where the nation’s founding document was signed. It is the couple’s third joint visit to New Zealand and their first […]

Car bomb kills 19 in northern Syria: monitor

7:52 pm November 16, 2019

Beirut: A car bomb killed 19 people, 13 of them civilians, in the Turkish-controlled town of Al-Bab in northern Syria on Saturday, a war monitor said. The bomb, which struck a bus and taxi station in the town, also wounded 33 people, some of them seriously, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Turkey […]

US stocks open sharply lower amid pressure on oil market

Iran announces discovery of massive oil field

8:06 pm November 10, 2019

Tehran: Iran has discovered a massive new oil field, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, a find that would boost its proven reserves by about a third in a rare piece of “good news” for an economy battered by US sanctions. In a speech aired on state TV, Rouhani said the country’s economy had stabilised despite […]

Iran agrees de-escalation 'only solution' to solve crisis with US

Iran resumes uranium enrichment at Fordow plant in new stepback from deal

6:00 pm November 7, 2019

Tehran: Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow plant south of Tehran on Thursday in a new step back from its commitments under a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. Engineers began feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into the plant’s mothballed enrichment centrifuges in “the first minutes of Thursday”, the statement said. The suspension of uranium enrichment […]

Iran announces sharp rise in enriched uranium production

8:48 pm November 4, 2019

Tehran: Iran announced Monday a more than tenfold increase in enriched uranium production following a series of steps back from commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the United States. Iran has also developed two new advanced centrifuges, one of which is undergoing testing, said Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Atomic Energy Organisation […]