TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will raise gasoline prices by some 40 percent beginning Tuesday, the country’s official news agency reported, the latest cut to the Islamic Republic’s fuel subsidies that cost it some $32 billion a year. While previous attempts to raise prices have sparked dissent, last ...
Iran has raised fuel prices by 40 percent and scrapped an eight-year-old rationing program for private motorists as President Hassan Rouhani’s government seeks to shore up public finances. Gas stations will sell regular fuel for 10,000 rials (36 U.S. cents), a liter, said Naser Sajadi, head of ...
Iran To Cut Another Portion Of Gasoline Subsidies/ Iran's state news agency is reporting that Tehran will raise gasoline prices by some 40 percent as a result of cutting subsidies. The IRNA report on May 25 said the new prices will take effect on May 26 in the morning. While previous attempts to ...
May 24 Iran will abolish a motorists' allowance for heavily subsidised fuel and set a price, the deputy oil minister said on Sunday, as the government moves cautiously to cut back costly handouts. "We have decided that petrol will be sold at a single rate of 1,000 tomans ($0.35) per litre," ...
Iran's state news agency is reporting the Islamic Republic will raise gasoline prices by some 40 percent as a result of cutting subsidies. The IRNA report Monday said the new prices will take effect Tuesday morning. While previous attempts to raise prices have sparked dissent, last year's ...
An Iranian man fills his car in a gas station in central Tehran, pictured on April 25, 2014. (AP)/ Iran is likely to abolish subsidized fuel allowances for motorists, an Oil Ministry adviser said on Saturday, in a move that will cut state spending but could also drive inflation and cause ...
government adviser/ May 23 Iran is likely to abolish subsidised fuel allowances for motorists, an Oil Ministry adviser said on Saturday, in a move that will cut state spending but could also drive inflation and cause protests. The government is trying to curb subsidies that have led to ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, is launched, Cape Canaveral/ (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew neared final approach to the ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Crowds gathered outside the Damascus Gate before marching through the Muslim Quarter/ Tens of thousands of Israelis, many from nationalist groups, have taken part in the annual Jerusalem Day flag march to mark the capture of the east of the city in the 1967 war. Crowds waving Israeli flags and ...
warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty. The ...
Dean Sweetland is one of a dozen residents tackling recent bushfires around Kibbutz Malkiya/ Three rusty water-trucks stand at the edge of Kibbutz Malkiya, on Israel’s border with Lebanon; little bigger than a family car, they look like something out of an old cartoon. A collection of industrial ...
electric aircraft from company Archer Aviation, is seen at the Salinas Municipal Airport in Salinas/ (Reuters) - Archer Aviation said on Wednesday the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the company a certificate to begin commercial operations, making it the second electric ...
A symbol of safety and security for parents and students is being charged with heinous acts that completely contradict that notion. Kiara Lee, a 26-year-old crossing guard, is accused of distributing electronic cigarettes and substances containing marijuana to students at Penn Wood Middle School ...
Palestinian families have begun fleeing Bureij camp and surrounding areas/ The Israeli military says it has begun a ground operation against Hamas in the Bureij refugee camp and east of the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Troops backed by air strikes were targeting “terrorists ...
Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital in April/ After Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City’s vast al-Shifa hospital complex on 1 April, following their second raid there, stunned Palestinians who pored over the burnt-out ruins said it reeked of death. During the past eight ...