Iran on Thursday nearly doubled its death toll from the hajj stampede to 464, giving up hope of finding missing pilgrims alive after a tragedy that has sparked a major row with Saudi Arabia./ After Iran threatened a "fierce" response to delays repatriating its dead, Tehran and Riyadh reached an ...
A female Iranian hajj pilgrim, right, weeps as she and her travel companion, second left, are welcomed by their relatives upon arrival at Tehran Imam Khomeini airport, Iran./ Iran's death toll from the Saudi hajj disaster has nearly doubled to 464 pilgrims killed, state media reported Thursday, ...
Saudi medics tend to injured pilgrims after they arrived at an emergency hospital following a deadly stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, on the first day of Eid al-Adha on September 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Al-Shaikh)/ Dubai (AFP) - Hundreds of people were still unaccounted for ...
Tehran says 464 pilgrims died, with 241 still missing/ DUBAI—Iran on Thursday doubled the number of its pilgrims who died in last week’s hajj stampede in Mecca to 464, state media reported, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and regional rival Saudi Arabia. Another 241 of the 64,000 ...
Fighters loyal to Yemen's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, fire a mortar shell during clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels at a military site near the country's third-largest city of Taez on September 9, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Basha)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran rejected as "propaganda" on ...
Bodies line the road after hundreds of pilgrims were killed in a stampede at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia, on September 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran on Thursday nearly doubled its death toll from last week's hajj stampede to 464, saying there was no hope of finding pilgrims ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The website of Iran's state television is reporting that the Iranian death toll from the Saudi hajj disaster has risen to 464 pilgrims killed. Thursday's report saw the death toll rise dramatically — almost doubling — from the previously reported death toll of 239. It wasn't ...
Iranian protesters outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran on September 27, 2015 (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of the 769 Muslim pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede, but several countries have announced the deaths of ...
The death toll of Iranians killed at the disaster at the haj in Saudi Arabia last week has risen to 464, Iran Haj and Pilgrimage Organization said on Thursday. "Seven days after the incident and after visiting hospitals [in Saudi Arabia] ... we sadly announce that number of Iranians died is ...
Iranian women demonstrate outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran on September 27, 2015 (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Saudi and Iranian health ministers have agreed to repatriate Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's Hajj stampede, Saudi state media said, after ...
An Iranian pilgrim pushes his luggage upon his return from Saudi Arabia after performing the annual haj pilgrimage, at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran September 28, 2015./ Iran and Saudi Arabia sought to tone down a war of words over last week's haj disaster, with Riyadh offering condolences to ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Shiite rebels says it has foiled an attempt by Iran to smuggle missiles and other weapons to the rebels aboard a fishing boat bound for Yemen. The coalition says in a statement released Wednesday that the seizure took ...
An armed Yemeni Shiite Huthi rebel stands next to a national flag in the capital Sanaa on September 21, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Riyadh (AFP) - The Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday it had seized an Iranian fishing boat in the Sea of Oman loaded with weapons destined for Shiite ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top leader on Wednesday warned Saudi Arabia of "harsh" measures if the kingdom fails to promptly repatriate the bodies of more than 200 Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's hajj stampede. 's warning came as Iran summoned Riyadh's envoy for the fourth time since last ...
Israel has said it would ignore any order to stop its offensive in Gaza/ The UN's top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has issued a dramatic ruling, ordering Israel to "immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah". It acted in support of a South African application last week ...
The bodies of Hanan Yablonka, Orion Hernandez and Michel Nisenbaum were recovered from Jabalia overnight/ The bodies of three more Israeli hostages have been recovered from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said. They are those of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez, it ...
Ukrainian National Guard 'Khartiia' brigade service member and a D-20 howitzer crew commander Ivan Liashko prepares to fire towards Russian troops in a front line in Kharkiv region/ MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ...
Ebrahim Raisi was laid to rest inside the Imam Reza Shrine, one of the holiest places in Shia Islam/ Iran's late President, Ebrahim Raisi, has been buried in his home city of Mashhad, four days after he was killed in a helicopter crash. The 63-year-old hard-line cleric was laid to rest in the ...
Russian President Putin attends press conference in Harbin/ (Reuters) -Russia will identify U.S. property, including securities, that could be used as compensation for losses sustained as a result of any seizure of frozen Russian assets in the United States, according to a decree signed by G7 ...
Disgraced former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells faces a second day of questioning at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal/ at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal as the lead campaigner in delivering justice for those wrongly convicted said he has ”no sympathy“ for ...
Naama, 19, was among seven young female conscripts taken hostage by Hamas gunmen who attacked Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on 7 October/ The brother of Israeli hostage Naama Levy has said the family’s decision to release new harrowing video of the moment his sister and other female ...
An Iowa Department of Transportation camera caught terrifying moments Tuesday for two truck drivers near The first tractor-trailer appears to have seen the tornado heading across the , and had pulled over. As the traffic cam starts shaking from the strong wind and rain blurs the image, a tanker ...
Female hostages who are Israeli soldiers Liri Albag and Agam Berger sit on the ground with their hands bound during their capture by Gazan militants at Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on October 7/ JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli television aired previously withheld footage on Wednesday ...
We asked the world to recognise us, now we're recognising Palestine/ Ireland, Norway, and Spain have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state from 28 May. Spain and Ireland said the decision was not against Israel nor in favour of Hamas, but rather in support of peace. Israel ...