Damascus, SANA – Prime Minister Imad Khamis on Tuesday met Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh and the accompanying delegation.

The meeting tackled means to enhance and expanding economic relations between the two countries, and the need to hold more meetings between the Syrian and Iranian public and private sectors and create joint investment opportunities.

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Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the industry’s only pervasive data intelligence company, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Oliver Ratzesberger President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Ratzesberger succeeds Victor L. Lund, who is transitioning from his role as President and CEO to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Ratzesberger has served as Teradata’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) since February 2018, responsible for the Company’s global operations and leading its strategies for go-to-market, products and services. He joined Teradata in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2018, served as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, leading Teradata’s research and development organization, following a distinguished career in advancing innovation in technology at both established and start-up companies. While COO, Ratzesberger worked alongside Lund in architecting and implementing the Company’s transformation. This appointment reflects the Board’s confidence in Ratzesberger......

Today, NuScale Power announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), to evaluate NuScale’s small module reactor (SMR) nuclear power plant for use in Jordan. The agreement continues to showcase the immense international interest in NuScale’s innovative nuclear technology.

JAEC is the government entity leading the development and implementation of nuclear strategy and managing"...

T he first phase of Iran’s second largest wind farm, with 50 MW power generation capacity, was launched on Monday in Aqkand village, East Azerbaijan Province.

The plant has 20 modern turbines of 2.5 MW with a permanent magnet direct-drive system, of which 12 are linked to the national grid, the state-owned Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization's (Satba) news portal reported.

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A powerful Iranian council approved an anti-money laundering bill on Saturday, Reuters reported, a major step towards reforms that would bring Iran into line with global norms and could facilitate foreign trade in the face of US sanctions.

Iran has been trying to implement standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental organisation that underpins the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.

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P resident Hassan Rouhani finally accepted Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi’s resignation as health minister on Thursday, after a week of media speculation on the reasons behind the outgoing official’s move, and named Saeed Namaki as the ministry’s caretaker.

Hashemi’s five years at the helm of Health Ministry was not without controversy. His team carried out the costly Health Reform Plan of 2014. Despite having the support of most"...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan’s Minister for Communication and Works Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Akbar Ayub Khan, in a meeting with Consul General of Iran in Peshawar Mohammad Baqer Beigi, expressed his country’s desire to benefit from Iran’s vast experience to develop the country’s infrastructure.

Ayub Khan said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province wants to cooperate with Iran in technical and engineering sectors to develop"...

Boehringer Ingelheim and Dicerna Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: DRNA), a leading developer of investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced that Boehringer Ingelheim has exercised an option to receive exclusive rights to a second hepatic disease target emerging from its research collaboration and license agreement with Dicerna. The collaboration, established in October 2017, aims to discover and develop novel GalXC™ RNAi therapeutics for the treatment of chronic liver diseases, with an initial focus on nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a devastating disease for which there is no approved treatment. The option is the second target under the two companies’ research collaboration and license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Boehringer Ingelheim will be responsible for future clinical development and commercialization of the therapeutic target. Dicerna is eligible to receive development and commercial milestone payments, and royalties on worldwide net sales. “It is extremely gratifying for Boehringer Ingelheim to exercise......

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Asadollah Abbasi, a member of the parliament’s presiding board, said President Rouhani is slated to attend a meeting of the parliament on Tuesday, December 25, and hand over the national budget bill for the next year.

There has been some delay in submitting the budget bill. According to the internal regulations of the Iranian parliament, the administration should present the annual budget bill by December"...