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Lost genes may help explain how vampire bats survive on blood alone

Surviving on blood alone is no picnic. But a handful of genetic tweaks may have helped vampire bats evolve to become the only mammal known to feed exclusively on the stuff.

26 Mar 2022 - 07:07

Amirabdollahian said in an interview with Almayadeen TV

Iran says ready to hold fifth round of talks with Saudi Arabia

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Friday described Tehran-Riyadh ties as “not good” and said Iran was not responsible for the situation but it was ready to hold the fifth round of talks with Saudi Arabia.

26 Mar 2022 - 06:05

Legislature Taiwan passes constitutional bill to lower voting age

Lawmakers across party lines on Friday voted to approve a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age in Taiwan from 20 to 18, making it the first proposed revision to the Constitution to cleared the Legislature since 2005.

26 Mar 2022 - 04:50

Russia starts military drill on disputed islands off Japan

The Russian military said Friday it has started a military exercise involving more than 3,000 troops on a chain of islands including those disputed with Japan, Russian news agency Interfax reported.

26 Mar 2022 - 03:52

Iran elaborates on abstention vote for UNGA resolution on Ukraine

Elaborating on reasons for abstaining from voting on UN General Assembly resolution on Ukraine crisis, Iran’s permanent representative to UN Majid Takht Ravachi said here on Thursday that current text resolution goes beyond humanitarian situation and lacks mechanisms for dealing with humanitarian aspects of the conflict

26 Mar 2022 - 03:03

Mass festival on the occasion of Land Day held in Yarmouk camp

Participants in the mass festival held at Yarmouk camp on the occasion of Land Day called for building a national resistance front against the occupation to confront the aggressive occupier policies and to form an Arab front to resist normalization in all parts of the Arab world.

26 Mar 2022 - 02:52

EU summit ends with no solution to high energy prices

EU to 'step up our support to Ukraine, sharpen sanctions and break free from Russian fossil fuels,' says EU Commission head.

26 Mar 2022 - 02:05

Major Japan banks to halt dollar transactions with Russia's Sberbank

Japan's three major banks will halt dollar transactions and money transfers with Russia's largest financial institution Sberbank following the United States' sanction against it in response to the Ukraine invasion, sources close to the matter said Saturday.

26 Mar 2022 - 00:45

As Ukraine forces counter near Kyiv, Russia scales back goals

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pushed for further talks with Russia as Moscow signalled it was scaling back its ambitions to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the east after attacks elsewhere stalled.

26 Mar 2022 - 00:07

(LEAD) S. Korea holds rare training involving F-35A fighters after N.K. ICBM launch

South Korea's Air Force conducted a rare training involving its F-35A radar-evading fighters in a show of airpower Friday, a day after North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

25 Mar 2022 - 23:00

Foreign tourist groups visit Palmyra

Two foreign tourist groups visited the historical city of Palmyra Thursday to get acquainted with its civilization and human heritage and document the sabotage that affected the most prominent edifices in Daesh attacks before expelling it at the hands of Syrian Army.

25 Mar 2022 - 21:45

leader's new year message:

Production should be knowledge-based and job-creating in the year 1401 SH

The following is the full text of the message issued on March 20, 2022, by Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, on the occasion of Nowruz, the start of the Iranian New Year.

21 Mar 2022 - 01:45

leader speech on the occasion of the Be’that

Iran supports ending the war in Ukraine; US root of Ukraine crisis

Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, addressed the people in a live televised speech today (March 1, 2022) on the occasion of Eid al-Mab'ath, the day on which the Holy Prophet of Islam (pbuh) was appointed to prophethood.

1 Mar 2022 - 13:14

US officials admit their “Maximum Pressure Campaign” was an abject failure

A number of manufacturers and officials in charge of economic and industrial matters met with Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, this morning (Sunday, January 30, 2022) in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyyah.

30 Jan 2022 - 18:53

Olympics pushes China on track toward winter sports powerhouse as millions hit ice and snow

With the countdown ticking down to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics coinciding with China's biggest festival, the world's second-largest economy is immersed in hearty anticipation for a robust Year of the Tiger, buoyed by its top leader's winter sports enthusiasm and a national push to build a sporting powerhouse.

30 Jan 2022 - 06:10

Discussed in a telephone conversation between the presidents of Iran and France;

Lifting of sanctions, verification, valid guarantee basic principles of a deal

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi by telephone on Saturday evening.

30 Jan 2022 - 06:03

Britain considering major NATO deployment amid Ukraine crisis

Britain is considering making a major NATO deployment as part of a plan to strengthen Europe's borders in response to Russia massing troops on the border with Ukraine, the government said on Saturday.

30 Jan 2022 - 02:55

Lavrov shares with Baerbock reaction to US, NATO response to security proposals

The sides voiced support for the activity of the Normandy Quartet and discussed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for the Iranian nuclear program and issues on the bilateral Russian-German agenda.

28 Jan 2022 - 18:30

Xinjiang expands loans to boost high-quality development of agriculture

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region last year expanded loans to agricultural entities in a bid to promote agricultural modernization and boost rural development, the Urumqi branch of the People's Bank of China said on Thursday.

28 Jan 2022 - 07:44

U.S. diplomats' families ordered to leave Kiev as military aid arrives

The U.S. said it had instructed the families of its diplomats to leave Kiev on Sunday, the same day Ukraine said it had received a second batch of American weapons to boost its defense amid an alleged threat of Russian military invasion.

24 Jan 2022 - 07:14