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…