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ISNA | Farzad Khabooshani: During an open session on Sunday, Iranian lawmakers re-elected veteran politician Ali Larijani as the speaker of the Parliament and voted for Masoud Pezeshkian and Abdolreza Mesri as his first and second deputies.   ... read more

Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan told Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in a phone call that both states should work together for ‘betterment� of their people. It comes after a crisis in February almost saw the nuclear powers go to war. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Is Italy going “crypto�? Some significant changes have been affecting institutions and politics before today’s 2019 European elections — a survey on the status of the blockchain revolution in the Bel Paese ... read more

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took a swipe at neoconservative Bill Kristol for his “foolish advocacy of the Iraq war,� and questioned whether he had apologized to the country for it yet. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Authored by W Stephen Gilbert via Off-Guardian.org, History will not be kind to Theresa May. By the standards she forthrightly set herself at the outset of her premiership, she has been a dismal failure. She proposed that, contrary to most impartial expectation, she would be a socially liberal prime minister ... read more

An Algerian prosecutor investigating graft has referred two former prime ministers and five former ministers to the supreme court, Ennahar TV reported citing a statement from the prosecution. ... read more

The Joplin Globe – Difficulties with Iran will recur regularly, like the oscillations of a sine wave, and the recent crisis — if such it was, or is — illustrates persistent U.S. intellectual and institutional failures, starting with this: The Trump administration’s assumption, and that of many in Congress, is ... read more

The prospect of a "no deal" Brexit was fast becoming the central battle of the race to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday, as environment minister Michael Gove became the latest candidate to declare. ... read more

Three people were killed and five others injured on Sunday in two separate explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, but the cause of the blasts was unclear, police said. ... read more

Earlier, Ukrainian media reports said a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old teenage girl staged an unauthorized rally on a central square in the western city of Rovno demanding Zelensky’s impeachment ... read more

Liverpool's James Milner revealed that he found himself on the receiving end of an irate Lionel Messi during the Reds' incredible 4-0 win over Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

According to a report released by BitMex Research, 3,392 BCH (over $1.35 million) was double spent after the coin’s hard fork ... read more

Ukraine should treat its creditors the way Greece does, Igor Kolomoisky supposes ... read more

In what is a solid contender for this year's Darwin Awards for environmental virtue signalling, the City of London has proposed a 15mph speed limit and the closure of some streets at lunchtime as part of a “radical plan� to reduce air pollution, cut traffic, and promote walking. With more ... read more

Ireland's Green Party will consider playing a role in the country's next government, pushing to overhaul environmental policy, if its surge in this week's local and European elections is repeated in the next parliamentary poll, its leader said. ... read more

He expressed confidence that the new church will become another venue for cooperation between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in France ... read more

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin lashed out at Berlin’s top anti-Semitism chief for his ‘defeatist’ attitude towards protecting local Jews against the rise of hate crimes. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Reuters – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi arrived on Sunday in Oman and discussed “regional developmentsâ€� with Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the sultanate’s minister responsible for foreign affairs, the state-run Oman News Agency reported. Bin Alawi said earlier this week that his country is trying “with other partiesâ€� ... read more

RT – Talking with Washington is akin to talking with the devil, a senior official with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, downplaying the US military presence in the region as the “weakest in history.â€� “Negotiating with the devil, the Quran says, bears no fruit,â€� the deputy commander of ... read more

An Iraqi court sentenced three French men to death on Sunday after finding them guilty of joining Islamic State, two court officials told Reuters. The ruling can be appealed. ... read more

MNA – Lord Norman Lamont, chairman of British-Iranian Chamber of Commerce announced that the body is resolved to continue its activities to boost bilateral trade cooperation with Iran. In an interview in London, Lord Lamont said that all the activities and services of the chamber are underway as before, rejecting ... read more

Talking with Washington is akin to talking with the devil, a senior official with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, downplaying the US military presence in the region as the “weakest in history.� Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Press TV – Yemeni armed forces have conducted fresh retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region. The al-Masirah TV channel reported on Sunday that the Yemeni Air Force and allied Popular Committees had launched a drone strike on hangars holding Saudi warplanes at Jizan airport. It quoted a military source as saying ... read more

MNA – Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that knowledge-based companies will be supported financially in order to counter sanctions imposed by US against Iran. Sponsoring knowledge-based companies with the aim of countering sanctions has been put atop agenda, he reiterated. He made the remarks in Alborz province ... read more

MNA – The third meeting of the Iranian-French Geopolitical Group was held at the College of World Studies in Paris with the presence of two professors of the political geography group from Iran’s Tarbiat Modares University. The third meeting of the of the Iranian-French Geopolitical Group was held in Paris ... read more