Judo athlete Vahid Nouri won Iran’s second gold medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games on Sunday.

Hurricane Ida strengthens into Category 4 storm ahead of expected Louisiana hit Andrew Freedman A satellite image of Hurricane Ida. Photo: CIRA/RAMMB Hurricane Ida strengthened into an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm and was “still intensifying” as it neared Louisiana on Sunday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. Why it matters: Ida is expected to …

The United States claimed it attacked a Daesh “planner” in Afghanistan in retaliation for a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport and said there was a high risk of further blasts as it winds up its mission to evacuate its civilians and withdraw troops. A U.S. official said on Saturday the …

Iranians Shine at Paralympics,

Ayatollah Khamenei Tells Iran’s New Administration:

TEHRAN — A fuel-laden tanker has departed Iranian waters bound for Lebanon, as the country continues to grapple with a mounting economic and energy crisis. Oil monitor TankerTrackers.com said that one of two oil tankers had left Iranian waters on Thursday, while the other was due to depart on Friday …

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a phone conversation on Friday underlined the need for expanding mutual cooperation in different fields.

The lives of people in the city of Leamington Spa in the UK is in crisis as a huge fire broke out in a chemical factory there causing toxic fumes.

GOP Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) on Thursday joined a wave of other Republicans calling on President Biden to resign, a demand that that surged in the hours following multiple bombings around the airport in Kabul, killing at least 12 US service members. Hawley said in a …

An aide to ex-Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a source close to Head of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah strongly denied a report by CNN news network over house arrest of top officials, stating that talks with the Taliban are underway.