Pope Francis condemned on Sunday a recent terrorist bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy of Shia Muslim evacuees outside the Syrian city of Aleppo. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in his Easter Sunday message to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square made the condemnation ...
Iran’s Guardian Council has started the process of auditing the credentials of the nominees, who have registered to run in the forthcoming 12th presidential election, the body’s spokesman says. “According to the Constitution, the Guardian Council has a five-day [deadline] to examine the qualifications of the hopefuls and announce [the ...