Giant fast food chain McDonald's and multinational chain of coffeehouses Starbucks have seen their profits take a hit as a result of the war in the Gaza Strip, with the companies pointing to boycotts over their perceived pro-Israel stances.
A Houthi military spokesman has said the Yemeni group fighters have conducted two operations against US and British vessels off the nation's coast, stressing their support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amidst intensified Israeli attacks.
Iran's permanent ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani has strongly condemned the United States’ recent air raids on Iraq and Syria as illegal and a blatant violation of international law and the the UN charter. He was addressing a UN Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security on Monday.
Some member states of the United Nations Security Council have criticized the US over last week’s air raids on several targets in Syria and Iraq to avenge the killing of three of its service personnel in Jordan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the Gaza war "must not end" before Israel kills Hamas leadership in the besieged enclave. More than 27,350 people have been killed by Israel since early October last year.
Washington has admitted it did not notify the Iraqi government before its recent airstrikes in the country after a top White House official claimed Baghdad had been informed in advance.
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali-Akbar Ahmadian has stressed Tehran’s commitment to the security and stability of Iraq in an official visit to the neighboring country.
The United Nations has announced it will investigate its own agency for Palestinian refugees to ensure “neutrality” following allegations by Israel that several UN staffers assisted Hamas’ October 7 military operation against Israel.
Israel has unleashed unlawful lethal force against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, carrying out unlawful killings and displaying “a chilling disregard for Palestinian lives”, Amnesty International has announced.
A rights group has sounded the alarm over a new bill passed by the Egyptian parliament that grants the African country's military expanded policing powers which "could be used for political repression."
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has stressed that the elites of the Muslim world shoulder a heavy responsibility vis-à-vis the ongoing developments in Gaza, urging them to create a public demand to cut relations with the Israeli regime.
Only slightly over 9,800 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been carrying out relentless attacks for four months, the Palestine Red Crescent Society has announced in a statement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is planning a “serious” overhaul of the country’s leadership team, he told Italy’s RAI TG1 news channel, when asked about his reported plan to fire Ukrainian military commander General Valery Zaluzhny.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby has stated that the Iraqi government should work with the US to combat "the threats" posed by militia groups on its own soil.
"Approximately 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing and injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip," Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement issued on Sunday.
The recent statements by the European Union politicians about the possibility of a war with Russia serve their own domestic interests aimed at distractinh the population from internal issues like tanking economies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated. At the same time, claims of an allegedly imminent conflict with Moscow also help to justify continued funding for Kiev, he stressed.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has refused to rule out striking targets inside Iran in the wake of repeated strikes on what Washington calls Tehran-linked groups across the Middle East. Iran has warned any attack by the US will be met by crushing response.
The Eurooean Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has rejected cuts to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Several countries, led by the US, have suspended funding the UN agency in response to Israeli allegations that UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
The West is complicit in the Ukrainian military’s killing of civilians in Donbass, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed. She was referring to the recent Ukrainian attack on a bakery in the city of Lisichansk, apparently involving weaponry provided by Kiev’s allies, which claimed the lives of at least 28 civilians.
Yemen's Houthi movement has announced that the latest wave of airstrikes by the United States and the United Kingdom on the war-ravaged country will not go unpunished.
