Hassan Rouhani told a cabinet meeting that health authorities would continue to “only quarantine individuals”.Officials have asked people not to go to Qom, the centre of the outbreak, but have not shut a shrine in the city that attracts millions of Shia pilgrims.Iran has reported 139 cases and 19 deaths in the past week.

Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ruled his country with an iron fist for nearly three decades, has died, his son said on Tuesday. He was 91.”Indeed, to ‘Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return.’ My father, Hosni Mubarak, passed away this morning,” Alaa Mubarak posted on Twitter, using a common Muslim prayer. During his 29 years in …

Fears are growing across the Middle East that coronavirus has infiltrated a main pilgrimage route, which could lead the deadly pathogen to vulnerable refugee populations, causing perhaps unprecedented public health crises across the region.Concern is centred on the persian shrine city of Qom, which is thought to be a hub of the disease and the likely source of its spread …

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Monday evening visited the iconic Taj Mahal as they marvelled at the famed 17th century Mughal-era mausoleum built as a monument of love.

Yalda film by Massoud Bakhshi displays the story of a 26 years old woman who’s been sentenced to death for having murdered her rich 65-year-old husband. She is invited to the most popular live TV reality show in Iran to be possibly forgiven by the only daughter of the victim who has got the retribution right.The story narrates the struggle …

It’s the event of the year for animal-lovers in Paris and for farmers from all over France. The Paris Agriculture Fair (Salon International de l’Agriculture) opened to the public on Saturday, to showcase cows, goats, pigs, chickens and… France’s leading politicians.

Like many women, college student Suvarna Dongare dreads getting caught short when she is out and about, with hygienic public toilets in short supply across the country.

Shahrokh Estakhri is an actor born on 6 October 1980. He is the eldest of three children, the other two being sisters, of a Chemical Engineer father and a Language graduate mother.

Kurdish fighters ripped open rabbits and snakes with their teeth as part of a graduation ceremony.The recruits crawled through freezing cold mud, ripped apart animals with their teeth and smashed blocks with their boots as they finished their training.Known as the Peshmerga, the Kurdish army were instrumental in defeating ISIS. Initially they were taken by surprise when the Islamic State …

The Siahkal incident refers to a guerrilla operation against Pahlavi government organized by People’s Fadaee Guerrillas that happened near Siahkal town in Gilan on February 8, 1971.