Iran
May 16, 2013
NEW YORK--North Korea in 2008 tried to export rocket fuses to Iran through Dalian, China, but a third country intercepted its smuggling attempt, according to a report by a U.N. ...
April 27, 2013
TEHRAN, Iran--Iranian users of Samsung mobile applications said April 25 that the company had notified them that they will no longer have access to the company's online store...
April 08, 2013
China isn't the only country in Asia struggling for cleaner skies. Though Beijing was in the spotlight earlier this year when reports surfaced of dangerous levels of air...
March 29, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--Iran, Syria and North Korea on March 29 prevented the adoption of the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade,...
March 21, 2013
BEIJING--China's crude oil imports from Iran rebounded last month from a 10-month low hit in January, official data showed, in line with an International Energy Agency (IEA)...
March 02, 2013
A Chinese businessman indicted in the United States over sales of missile parts to Iran is still making millions of dollars from the trade, say security officials who monitor...
March 01, 2013
ALMATY, Kazakhstan--Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei has approved Tehran’s decision to pursue direct negotiations with the United States over Iran’s nuclear development...
February 19, 2013
TEHRAN--The slow pace at which Iran is producing nuclear fuel for supposedly research purposes will not help its case in the international community, which strongly suspects...
February 15, 2013
WASHINGTON--North Korea is upgrading one of its two major missile launch sites, apparently to handle much bigger rockets, and some design features suggest it is getting help...
December 07, 2012
WASHINGTON--Japan, the United States and South Korea are considering asking the United Nations Security Council to strengthen sanctions against North Korea if it carries out...
October 14, 2012
NEW DELHI--India's HMEL, part-owned by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, has emerged as a new oil client of sanctions-hit Iran, potentially complicating New Delhi's bid for a...
September 26, 2012
VIENNA--United Nations nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano, a key figure in international diplomacy over Iran's disputed nuclear activity, will seek a new four-year term next...
September 06, 2012
Increasing stress of late has worsened the chronic hypertension of Vafaee, a 45-year-old trade firm employee in eastern Tehran.
September 01, 2012
TEHRAN--Iran and North Korea have signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement, bringing the two nations deeply at odds with the U.S. closer together.
August 25, 2012
NEW DELHI -- An Indian official says India, Iran and Afghanistan will hold talks on giving greater access to landlocked Afghanistan, a move that could also ease Iran's...
August 23, 2012
SEOUL -- North Korea's figurehead leader, not supreme leader Kim Jong Un, will attend a summit of non-aligned developing nations in Iran next week, Pyonyang's official KCNA...
August 13, 2012
DUBAI--Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful...
August 04, 2012
DUBAI -- Iran has successfully test fired a new short-range missile equipped with a guidance system it plans to install on all future missiles it builds, Defense Minister Ahmad ...
July 03, 2012
DUBAI--Iran said on July 3 it had successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of hitting Israel in response to threats of military action against the country, Iranian...
June 29, 2012
TEHRAN--It wasn't that long ago when the job of fashion model would have been unthinkable--and even considered indecent--in the strict Islamic nation of Iran.