Abbas-Ali Soleimani was a member of the Council of Experts, a leading oversight body Senior Iranian religious leader Abbas-Ali Soleimani was shot dead in an incident at a bank in the city of Babolsar on Wednesday morning, national media have reported.

Norway has said Sweden should have informed it more quickly after a Swedish rocket malfunctioned and crashed on Norwegian territory earlier this week. A research rocket launched by the government-owned Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) deviated from its course on Monday and came down in a mountainous area of the neighboring country.

Republika Srpska will become a separate nation through peaceful means only, Milorad Dodik has said Bosnia and Herzegovina has always been a foreign project with no chance of success and Republika Srpska (RS) will gain independence from the country, the president of the mainly Serbian-populated region, Milorad Dodik, has said.