Megan Hess, owner and operator of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling body parts or entire bodies without the consent of the families of the deceased, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday

The police department in the US city of Houston responded to reports of a fire outside the Chinese Consulate General in the Montrose neighborhood, according to a statement out in the early hours of Wednesday

The new Iranian oil storage facility at Jask Port in Makran coastal strip is expected to be ready for launch by 2021 to facilitate Iran's oil exports in circumvention of the tensions-fraught Persian Gulf, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh told Sputnik on Thursday on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow

Tehran will present in the United Nations a project on cooperation of the regional countries that aims to ensure security in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said

Iraq will not join the coalition for the protection of maritime routes in the Persian Gulf amid the escalation in the region and stands against the participation of Israel in it, Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Sahaf said on Thursday