At least 66 Palestinian children have died from acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip under Israel’s siege since October 2023, local authorities announced Saturday, as severe shortages of food, medical supplies and baby formula continue to grip the enclave.
European NATO members have expressed growing unease about increasing their reliance on US arms amid a sweeping rearmament push, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has strongly condemned “unlawful” and “terror-inciting” US and Israeli threats against Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, urging the UN to recognize such threats as illegal, irresponsible, and terrorist in nature.
Moscow will no longer play “one-sided” games with the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told journalists on the sidelines of the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in Minsk. Western nations have repeatedly betrayed Russia by not fulfilling their promises related to NATO expansion and resolving the Ukraine conflict, he stated at a press conference on Friday.
Israeli soldiers have deliberately shot at unarmed Palestinians seeking aid in the Gaza Strip after being “ordered” to do so by their commanders, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned against the growing humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the "search for food" should not be a "death sentence."
Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abba Araghchi says a call by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi to visit the country’s nuclear facilities, recently targeted in US military aggression, is “meaningless and possibly even malign in intent.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi delivered a sharp message to US President Donald Trump, urging him to show respect toward Iran’s Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, if he truly seeks a deal with Tehran.
Tehran has submitted an official letter of protest to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights over the recent US-Israeli aggression against Iran, which claimed hundreds of innocent lives and inflicted damage on vital infrastructure.
People in the holy city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, held a funeral for the military commanders, scientists and civilians who were martyred in the recent aggression by the Zionist regime against Iran. The funeral happened on Friday.
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The Gaza government media office has condemned the discovery of oxycodone pills reportedly discovered in flour bags distributed by “American-Israeli” aid centres.
While US President Donald Trump has claimed that Israeli forces entered the Fordow Nuclear Site near the Iranian city of Qom, and some social media channels have circulated fabricated videos to support this claim, informed sources in Qom Province have denied it as a security bluff.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian warned that failure to respond to recent Israeli attacks on Iran could have triggered a full-scale and uncontrollable regional war.
Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva has protested France's arbitrary detention of Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian university professor and human rights activist supporting Palestine, callung for her immediate release.
The United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA) has warned that preventable diseases in the Gaza Strip are on the rise and killing civilians due to the lack of desperately needed medicine and clean water.
The spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Baqaei, says that the German Chancellor’s support for the genocidal Zionist regime is disgraceful, and it shows that he has not only distanced himself from the conscience of history but has also disrespected the collective conscience of the German people.
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels have condemned the “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in the Gaza Strip, but were unable to unite on means of pressuring Israel to end the war.
Iranian foreign minister says that no agreement has been made for negotiations with the United States, and added: "We have informed the Zionist regime that Iran is not Lebanon, and any violation of the ceasefire will be met with a swift and precise response."
Iran’s top military commander said US officials were forced to seek mediation through regional countries and ultimately yielded to Iran’s will during the recent military confrontation with Israel.
