Romanians cast their votes on October 6 in a two-day referendum on whether to change the constitutional definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman, aimed at preventing same sex partnerships from ever being legal in one of the few EU states to still ban them. (AP, Reuters)
In a speech at the UN General Assembly on September 27 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of keeping a "secret atomic warehouse" just outside Tehran, despite the 2015 deal with world powers – the Joint and Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA). (AP)
In a speech to Iranian ambassadors in Tehran on July 22 Iran's president Hassan Rohani warned U.S. President Donald Trump against provoking his country or else he "will regret it.” (AP)