Iran’s nuclear chief said on Wednesday that a facility in the country’s Natanz nuclear plant, meant to build advanced centrifuges, will be completed in a month, and noted that the Islamic Republic is prepared to increase its uranium-enrichment capacity if the nuclear deal collapses.
Jailed pro-Kurdish presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas delivered a campaign speech from his cell in Turkey on Wednesday, following Ankara’s rejection of a request to free him to allow him to campaign. He delivered the speech via a telephone call to his wife.
Boeing announced on Wednesday that it will not deliver any of its aircraft to Iran in light of United States sanctions on the Islamic Republic as part of America’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that he would resign if all the women in the Philippines sign a petition calling for him to quit in response to widespread outrage after he forced a married woman to kiss him on stage in South Korea.
Voters made history during Tuesday’s California primary election by recalling Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky from office.
Incumbent U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) took first place in Tuesday’s primary in California, easing her way into the general election in November, where she will compete for a fifth term in office.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper argued in a column Tuesday that banning all religious garments in public is necessary to achieve “social unity” and contended the act does not portray “religious hatred.”
Democrat Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican businessman John Cox will face off in November’s general election after finishing in the top two spots on Tuesday evening in the California primary.
Pubs and bars in Singapore are preparing for the scheduled summit between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un with a menu of specialty drinks inspired by the event.
Multiple “Western and Asian” officials told Reuters in a report published Sunday that the United States is seeking to expand its Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea to respond to growing belligerence from China.
Last week, progressive actors, directors, and entertainment streaming giants like Lena Dunham, J.J. Abrams, and Netflix, respectfully, sent “Get Out the Vote” postcards to California voters with the specific aim of recruiting first-time voters to the polls ahead of Tuesday’s highly-anticipated primary.
A new poll released Sunday found that nearly half of California’s Bay Area residents want to exit the area within a few years over the cost of living and unaffordable housing prices.
South Korean and Philippine observers have expressed outrage at Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s treatment of a Philippine worker, who he appeared to force into a kiss on the lips onstage at an event in Seoul.
Former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held three rallies in Southern California on Saturday, accompanied by Disney employees and port workers who are seeking better wages and working conditions.
Authorities in Malaysia reportedly detained 15 suspected terrorists — including a student, a housewife, six Malaysians, six Filipinos, and a Bangladeshi restaurant owner — on Friday for allegedly smuggling firearms into the Muslim-majority country and plotting attacks on several non-Muslim places of worship.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times said on Thursday that the nation is intent on making “full preparations and strategic arrangements for long-lasting contention” with the United States in the South China Sea.
United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jon-un’s favorability has risen significantly among South Korean adults, according to a new survey released Friday by Gallup Korea.
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States in Iraq, called the United States “an invader country” in remarks Wednesday, vowing to do whatever he could to diminish America’s role in the country.
Saudi Arabia reportedly released a video of the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS) Thursday chairing a meeting for the Council of Economic Affairs and Development in Jeddah on Tuesday to quash rumors, broadcast through Iranian state media, that he was injured or dead as a result of a shooting outside the royal palace on April 21.
Embattled Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), a leader of the #MeToo movement in California, is struggling to campaign for re-election after being hit by sexual harassment and misconduct allegations earlier this year.
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun, on Wednesday, said joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea occurring while the U.S.and North Korea plan a summit are an “intolerable mockery” of the upcoming historic dialogue.
Less than a month before the June 24 date on which Saudi Arabia will officially lift a decades-old ban on women drivers, the Kingdom introduced a law on Wednesday that criminalizes sexual harassment.
A video published Thursday appeared to show Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif chanting “Death to America,” “Death to Britain,” and “Death to Israel” during an address by the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), on Wednesday, sanctioned six Iranians, three Iran-based entities and leaders, the country’s state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), and Iran’s notorious Evin prison for being involved with serious human rights abuses and censorship.
The White House announced Tuesday that American President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet ahead of the “expected meeting” between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12.
China announced Monday that it will host Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the country next month.
Female candidates on the Democratic Party ticket in California, many of whom have built their candidacies on opposing President Donald Trump, may not experience the anticipated “pink tsunami” or “Year of the Woman” as so many have hoped in the upcoming June primary elections.
Naser Malek Motiee, 88, once hailed as the “King of Iranian Cinema,” passed away from kidney failure on Friday. At his funeral in Tehran Friday, mourners protested the regime’s censorship of his films, lifted only after his death.
Democrats are reportedly spending millions of dollars in California in an attempt to prevent a primary “disaster” that would hurt their goal of regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives this year.
Iranian state-run media have suggested that Iran’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) was shot and injured when heavy gunfire reportedly broke outside the royal palace in Riyadh last month.
A court in Malaysia sentenced a grandmother from Australia – who said she was “tricked” into carrying 1.1 kilos of crystal methamphetamine, or “ice”, into the country – to death on May 24.
Members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the off-campus Revolutionary Communist Party violently disrupted a pro-Israel event at UCLA last week.
A senior official in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been asleep for the past 40 years if he thinks Iran will bend to America’s demand that they withdraw from Syria.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Wednesday, highlighted Iran’s military capabilities and warned the United States that it would suffer the same deadly fate as Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein it ever attacks the Islamic Republic.
Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSC), reportedly said on Wednesday that Iran is ready to hold talks on the civil war in Yemen with Saudi Arabia without preconditions.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Wednesday the United States will fall because Islamic teachings have predicted its demise.
A court in Baghdad, Iraq sentenced dozens of women married to or widowed by members of the Islamic State to death or life in prison in a mass trial this week.
Billionaire Meg Whitman, who was the Republican nominee for California governor in 2010 and lost to Jerry Brown, is backing Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa for governor in 2018.
The State Department urged the Iranian people in a press briefing Tuesday to take it upon themselves to see that a free and thriving democracy prevails in their country, ruled by a hardline Islamic regime since the fall of the late shah in 1979.
The United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Thursday that it had sanctioned several Iranian and Turkish companies and 31 aircraft associated with four Iranian airlines.
