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The Zionist occupation entity pushed on with plans to build a new ‘Israeli’ settler neighborhood in east occupied al-Quds, a watchdog group said Sunday, warning such efforts were being stepped up before US President Donald Trump leaves office.  The Trump administration has broken with decades of bipartisan US practice by …

Commander of the Galil Division in the Zionist army, General Shlomi Binder, stressed that all the military measures taken on border with Lebanon can’t prevent Hezbollah from invading Galilee. During the upcoming confrontation, the Israeli army will evacuate the border military sites and the close settlements, according to Binder who …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President’s Office for Science and Technology Mostafa Qaneyee announced that a coronavirus vaccine being developed in Iran would reach Phase III trials in June, 2021. “The third phase of the trial, which normally monitors the impacts and effectiveness of the vaccine on a relatively large population, would …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Vice President for Legal Affairs Laya Joneidi underlined that the European countries should fulfill their commitments with regard to expanding trade and economic cooperation with Iran. Joneidi made the remarks in a meeting with the newly-appointed Ambassador of Norway to Iran Sigvald Hauge. She called on Europe …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Security sources revealed that an intelligence delegation from the UAE has traveled to Tel Aviv to study plans to return the terrorist groups to the Southern cities of Syria. The Arabic-language al-Khalij Online news website quoted the sources as claiming that the UAE is attempting to form a …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to Vienna-Based International Organizations Kazzem Qaribabadi said that the latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog proves that his country has continued cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Qaribabadi told reporters on Wednesday that the new report shows the IAEA’s continued verification of …

Senior United Nations [UN] officials warned on Wednesday that millions of people in war-torn Yemen were facing starvation – as they again appealed for more money to prevent it. “We are on a countdown right now to a catastrophe,” UN food chief David Beasley told the UN Security Council, according …

Israel reportedly plans to send a first delegation to Sudan in the coming days to “firm up” a declared normalization deal between Tel Aviv and Khartoum.   The delegation would visit Sudan on Sunday, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing an anonymous source whom it said had been briefed on the …

In response to the continued unjust aggression and blockade, military escalation, and insisting on closing airports and seaports of Yemen, the Yemeni Armed Forces won’t hesitate to escalate its actions in the coming days, said Spokesman Brigadier General Yehya Saree. In light of this, Saree added, the Yemeni Armed Forces …

Senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister, Ali Asghar Khaji, met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. In the Tuesday meeting, the two sides highlighted the importance of the international conference on the return home of Syrian refugees, being held in the Arab country. They also hit out at …