Thousands of McDonald’s workers demanding higher wages and the right to form a union without retaliation have held a demonstration in the United States. The police arrested about 100 protesters outside McDonald’s corporate headquarters in the state of Illinois on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, organizers changed the location of their protest after the fast-food…

Russia has called on the United Nations (UN) to investigate a recent fire incident in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa that left dozens of pro-Russia protesters dead. After a UN Security Council meeting on human rights in Ukraine on Wednesday, Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said he has sent a letter to…

Lawmakers in Yemen have demanded the resignation of the country’s government following months of nationwide protests, arguing that the reconciliation government has failed to resolve major issues fueling public anger, Press TV reports. Yemeni Parliament Speaker Yahya Ali Al-Raee explicitly called on Wednesday for the resignation of the government at the presence of the country’s…

A prospective security alliance between Iran, China and Russia will give the cash-strapped United States a nightmare, an Iranian academic tells Press TV. Foad Izadi, a professor at the University of Tehran, made the comment in an interview with Press TV after Chinese President Xi Jinping called for the creation of a new Asian organization…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent have joined in an operation to deliver food aids to 60,000 people in Syria’s Aleppo Province. ICRC President Peter Maurer says it is the biggest such operation in months, state-run BBC reported Wednesday. The organization stated earlier this month that the…

Russia has vowed to retaliate against “unfounded” US sanctions slapped on 12 Russians for alleged human rights abuses, amid growing tensions between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine. “We view the decision by the US administration to impose visa and financial sanctions against 12 Russian citizens … as unfounded and dictated by a cynical desire to…

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he is against the hasty replacement of the country’s national currency with the euro, as Poland is doing better economically than the eurozone. Tusk said on Wednesday that he opposes the country’s quick adoption of the euro because the Polish economy is doing better than the single-currency bloc. The…

The Russian Defense Ministry says the country’s troops stationed near the border with Ukraine are dismantling their camps and preparing to return to their bases. Russian forces in the Bryansk, Belgorod and Rostov regions are preparing to return to their home bases, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The ministerial announcement comes a day after President…

China has summoned the US ambassador to Beijing over Washington’s indictment of Chinese military officers who the United States says were involved in economic cyber-espionage. China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang met US Ambassador to China Max Baucus on Monday after Washington charged five Chinese army officers with hacking into American nuclear, metal and solar…

The Kiev government is actually responsible for the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine, a political analyst says. “We can blame the military operation launched by Kiev and this is not just a military operation. It’s not just used military forces of the Ukrainian army; it has also used militias, irregular troops, terrorist units, simple violent…