The inauguration ceremony of the twelfth term of the Iranian parliament was held on Monday morning (May 27, 2024) with the elected lawmakers and a group of government and military officials in attendance.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has stated it will make no changes in Iran's foreign policy regarding its unconditional support for Palestine and confronting Israel.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has stated that the bloc is endangered by the Israeli disregard for orders issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop military operations in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned that half of the population of the Gaza Strip is at imminent risk of famine, including around 15,000 pregnant women.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the global community to work together against Russia, stressing that no nation can survive a conflict with Moscow alone.
Saudi Arabia has appointed its ambassador to Damascus for the first time since the kingdom closed its embassy in Syria in 2012, after violence gripped the country.
The European Union is facing a record number of “external and internal enemies”, who pose an existential threat to the bloc, French President Emmanuel Macron has warned, doubling down on a warning he’d given earlier, that “our Europe” could end up dying.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and many more injured after Israeli missiles struck a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip which was designated as a safe zone.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a message on the occasion of the inauguration of the 12th round of Iran's parliament, stressed securing national interests is the main duty of the country's lawmakers.
Minister of National Economy Mohammed Alamour has warned that the Palestinian economy is facing an "unprecedented" shock, due to the ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict in the Gaza Strip.
One in every three Lebanese people is living in poverty, the World Bank has announced in a report. The organisation noted that poverty rates have tripled in the country over the past decade amid an economic crisis.
The G7 has not reached a consensus on how to use the revenue generated by Russian central bank assets frozen abroad to help Ukraine, Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti has stated.
A report released by Iran's state TV on Sunday has revealed that Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Al-e-Hashem, a cleric on board the Iranian president’s doomed helicopter, had outlived the other passengers after the fatal crash.
Russia does not need another mobilization and has been signing up volunteers for contract service, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated, refuting a Financial Times report claiming that such a new draft was being planned.
Following the unexpected death of Iranian president, Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian Minister of the Interior officially initiated the process for the 2024 presidential election, instructing governors nationwide to commence preparations.
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, has expressed his heartfelt condolences following the tragic and untimely death of Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Reformists in Iran have started discussions with senior figures in the camp to pick candidates for the presidential election scheduled to be held next month, an official says.
Iran's acting President Mohammad Mokhber stressed that Tehran’s backing for Palestinian resistance groups would by no means falter after the loss of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
Several people have been killed and wounded in separate attacks in Ukraine and Russia, according to officials, as Moscow steps up its offensive in northeast Ukraine.
The first deputy speaker of Bahrain’s Council of Representatives has stated the Persian Gulf kingdom intends to take measures soon to revive diplomatic ties with neighboring Iran after more than eight years of severed ties.
A spokesman for Hamas' armed wing said on Sunday its fighters had killed, wounded or captured Israeli soldiers during fighting in Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
