More than 30 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, eclipsing the 2014 early totals nationally and suggesting a high overall turnout for contests that could define the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term.

In the lead up to the US midterm elections, President Donald Trump’s tendency for making false or misleading statements has increased dramatically, according to reports.

Mexico’s capital receives the first group of a caravan of Central American migrants traveling through the country towards the United States in search of better living conditions.

The United States and South Korea have resumed joint military exercises that were indefinitely suspended by President Donald Trump ahead of high-profile talks between top American and North Korean diplomats in New York later this week.

Saudi Arabia faces tough grilling at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The human rights session is expected to pose grave questions to Riyadh over a deadly Saudi-led war on Yemen as well as the recent killing of a dissident by Saudi agents in Turkey.

As part of interfaith unity programs several Shia scholars have been deployed to Sunni-inhibited areas to exchange views with peer Sunni clerics across Iran.

Persian version of the book on the high character of Imam Hassan (AS) is published on the eve of the martyrdom anniversary of the second Shia Imam.

Senior Iranian prayer leader slammed the violence in some Islamic states stressing that the violence by some groups is in contradiction with the affectionate spirit of Islam.

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has called for withdrawal of Turkish ‘occupation’ forces from Syrian territories in order to prevalence of security and stability in the Arab country.

The US President Donald Trump is “too little to force the Iranian people to obey his instructions,” the Iranian parliament’s speaker, Ali Larijani, said .

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry rejected on Saturday a statement issued by the US embassy in Baghdad in which it called on Tehran to “respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government and permit the disarming, demobilisation, and reintegration” of Shia militias.

Oman’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Dr Ahmed Mohammed Al-Futaisi said Sunday that his country; “the host state” of an international transport conference had to invite Israeli Minister of Transportation and Intelligence, Yisrael Katz and not because of any bilateral partnerships.

The Iraqi army announced on Sunday that 25 members of the Daesh militant group also known as Daesh had been killed and a number of the group’s sites and equipment were destroyed in Kirkuk, 300 km north of the capital, Baghdad.

British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday he would push for new action at the United Nations Security Council to try to end hostilities in Yemen and find a political solution to the war there, Reuters reports.

The Middle East Regional Development Forum was launched at the Beijing University on Sunday in the presence of experts, researchers and academics from China, the Middle East and the United States.

Egyptian security forces killed 19 militants from a cell believed to be responsible for an attack on Christians in Minya province in central Egypt in which seven people died, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

Iran Air is looking to buy planes from any company not requiring US sales permits and may consider Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet 100, the flag carrier’s head was quoted as saying, as Iran tries to renew its ageing fleet despite facing US sanctions.

A Turkish official has said that the body of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was dissolved in acid either in the grounds of the Saudi consulate or near the residence of the Saudi Consul General in Istanbul, the Daily Hürriyet reported.

The USA and Turkey have agreed to lift mutual sanctions after months of strained relations.

“Once again, Iran will overcome the crippling ‎sanctions that the enemies have drawn up and planned against the nation of Iran," Ayatollah Hoseyni-Bushehri said.