FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow, Russia December 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will not attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos this week because its organizers had “abruptly changed its agenda”, its foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. “He was scheduled to attend ... but they abruptly changed the schedule and it was not…

FILE PHOTO: Mourners attend a vigil for the victims of a Ukrainian passenger jet which was shot down in Iran, in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Jesse Winter DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran considers dual nationals aboard a Ukrainian plane that was shot down accidentally this month to be Iranian citizens, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. Iran does not recognize dual nationality. Many of the 176 people killed in the disaster were Iranians with dual citizenship.…

Iran is flip-flopping on which country will investigate why Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 crahsed on Jan. 8, killing all 176 people on-board. On Jan. 18, a director in charge of accident investigations for Iran's Civil Aviation Organization told an Iranian media organization that he would send the plane's flight data recorder to Ukraine. The director said his agency had not been able to open or read the device, Reuters reported. "With the use of the expertise of the countries of…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Houthi rebels are known to target Yemeni soldiers A missile attack on a military training camp in Yemen has killed at least 80 soldiers. Dozens of others were wounded in the strike in the central province of Marib on Saturday, officials say. The camp, about 170km (105 miles) east of the capital, Sanaa, targeted a mosque as people gathered for prayer, military sources told Reuters. Yemen's government has blamed Houthi rebels for the attack,…

FILE PHOTO: An Iranian flag flutters in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday that it had not closed the “door to negotiations” in efforts to resolve a dispute over its nuclear agreement with world powers that has escalated steadily since the United States withdrew from the deal in 2018. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said any further move by Tehran to scale…

Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois-Philippe Champagne gestures as Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab lights a candle during a moment of silence ahead of a meeting of the International Coordination and Response Group for the families of the victims of the Ukraine International flight which crashed in Iran, at the High Commission of Canada in London, Britain January 16, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from Canada and Britain paid their respects on Thursday to those who died…

CAIRO/BRUSSELS - (Reuters) - After war broke out again in Libya early last year, a special team of EU diplomats in Tripoli was forced back to neighboring Tunisia to do what they had been doing for several years: wait. FILE PHOTO: A fighter loyal to Libya's U.N.-backed government (GNA) gestures during a clash with forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar at the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya May 21, 2019. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic As Germany holds a U.N summit on Sunday for a…

Image copyright AS LISTED Image caption "More bitter than bitter" and "Unforgiveable" were among Iranian newspaper headlines Outrage in Iran over the shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner, and the delay in admitting responsibility for it, has been prominent in its media. Sentiments normally seen in social media posts have made their way into more mainstream outlets that normally toe the line. There has been an acknowledgement that people have a right to be angry. 'Death to the dictator' Immediately…