National Desk

US President-elect Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of brazenly damaging democracy, as the incumbent’s campaign to reverse his election loss through fraud claims was dealt another blow with a recount in Georgia.

The European Union and Britain remain at odds in last-ditch trade talks over fishing rights, guarantees of fair competition and ways to solve future disputes, even though they are very close to agreement on other issues, EU diplomats said on Friday.

UN officials said on Friday around $200 million is needed to provide assistance to the thousands refugees flooding into Sudan seeking shelter from fighting in Ethiopia.

By Sadeq Dehqan & Farzam Vanaki

Iran on Friday dismissed as “yellow journalism” a report by The New York Times about efforts by Iranian diplomats to hint Tehran’s “insistence” that Washington “unconditionally” rejoin the nuclear agreement of 2015.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated 13 major road and airport projects, with a government investment of nearly $121 million.

Iran’s petrochemicals production and exports increased in the first six months of the current Iranian year (March 20-September 21) despite the limitations caused by the pandemic and the US sanctions, said the secretary general of Iran’s Association of Petrochemical Industry Corporation (APIC).

Iranian steelmakers cast over 16.9 million tons of steel ingots (billets, blooms and slabs) during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 20-October 21), which marks a 6.3 percent rise compared to 15.9 million tons last year.

The length of freeways in operation in Iran will increase to more than 3,000 kilometers by the end of the Twelfth Government, in August 2021, said the deputy minister of roads and urban development.