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Healthcare

Minister: Iran self-sufficient in producing 97 percent of domestic needs for medicine

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Iran’s health minister says the country can provide up to 97 percent of the needs for medicines and 40 percent of the medical equipment at home.
Middle East

Israel: Female soldiers no longer to guard security prisons amid suspected sex scandal

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The Israeli military will no longer allow women to work as prison guards at high-security facilities, top officials have announced, ordering an “immediate” end to the practice after several female soldiers were accused of having sexual relations with an inmate.
Middle East

Qatar calls for Israeli nuclear sites to be subjected to IAEA safeguards

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Qatar has called for the Israeli regime's nuclear facilities to be subjected to the International Atomic Energy Agency's safeguards amid Tel Aviv's ongoing snub of international nuclear regulations.
Europe

UN plans to send mission to Nagorno-Karabakh as exodus nears 100,000

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The United Nations is to send a mission to Nagorno-Karabakh this weekend, its first access to the disputed region in about 30 years. It comes amid reports that nearly 80 percent of the ethnic Armenian population of the region have been displaced.
Views

Iran Leader’s aide: US forced Ukraine into war, causing further mayhem in region

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A senior advisor to the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on international affairs says that the United States pushed Ukraine into the conflict with Russia by providing it with weapons and munitions, which stoked the tensions.
Science and Technology

Official: Iran exports pharmaceuticals to 40 states

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Heidar Mohammadi, the head of Iran's Food and Drug Administration, has praised the country’s progress in the fields of medical science and pharmaceutical industry, pointing to the export of Iranian-developed medicines to 40 countries across the world.
Middle East

US-Saudi defence pact tied to normalization with Israel, Palestinian demands put aside: Report

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Saudi Arabia is determined to secure a military pact requiring Washington to defend the kingdom in return for opening ties with Israel and will not hold up a deal even if Tel Aviv does not offer major concessions to Palestinians in their bid for statehood, three regional sources familiar with the talks say.
Foreign Policy

Iran’s president condemns Pakistan’s bombings, says Tehran firmly ready to counter terrorism

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has deplored terrorist bombings at two mosques in Pakistan, stressing Tehran is firmly ready to counter extremism in all its forms. At least 60 people were killed and scores injured in two blasts in religious ceremonies in the Pakistani provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday.
Asia

Putin to discuss important strategic issues with Xi during China visit: Envoy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss important strategic issues with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during his upcoming visit to China, Beijing's ambassador to Moscow told Russian state news agency TASS.
Europe

Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 583

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Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Middle East

Egyptian woman murdered on campus in third “femicide case” in a week

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An employee of Cairo University was killed on campus, in the “third incident of femicide in Egypt in two days.” Almost eight million Egyptian women were victims of violence committed by their partners or relatives or by strangers in public spaces, according to reports.
Europe

UN: Over 2,500 dead, missing as 186,000 cross Mediterranean in 2023

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More than 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, the UN refugee agency has announced, while approximately 186,000 people have arrived in European countries during the same period.
Parliament

Iranian parl. speaker hopeful ties with Egypt improve, invited to Cairo 

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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says he is hopeful that Iran and Egypt will restore their diplomatic relations soon. 
Tourism

Iran’s Bushehr holds third tourism festival 

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Iran’s southern province of Bushehr, with a long coastline along the Persian Gulf, is holding the third tourism festival in the tourist village and Shoghab Beach Park in the provincial capital. 
Energy

Iran inaugurates power plant for industries in Isfahan’s Mobarakeh

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi inaugurated a combined cycle power plant earlier on Friday in Isfahan’s Mobarakeh Steel Company as part of a larger plan to help industries generate the power they need and remove obstacles for production.
Security

Intelligence Minister: Iran thwarts extensive assassination plot against officials 

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Iranian security forces have foiled a string of extensive assassination plots to target Sunni clerics, judges, and Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) members across the country, the intelligence minister has announced. 
Economy

Iran, Pakistan agree to streamline border operations at Mirjaveh crossing

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Iran and Pakistan have struck a deal to facilitate road transportation and border operations to ensure timely clearance of goods in order to increase the daily traffic movements through the shared Mirjaveh-Taftan border crossing at least four-fold.
Incidents

Fire erupts at warehouse complex in northern Tehran

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A significant fire broke out at a warehouse housing store supplies, food, and plastic situated along a bustling highway in north of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Science and Technology

IRGC aerospace force unveils Noor 3 satellite advancements, future space endeavors

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Ali Jafarabadi, Space Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, revealed significant details about the successful launch of the Noor 3 satellite.
Europe

Local leader says ‘Nagorno-Karabakh republic’ will no longer exist

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The authorities of Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh announced on Thursday the dissolution of the self-proclaimed republic after a Russian-mediated truce ended a flare-up of hostilities between the enclave and Baku.
Middle East

Iraq arrests 14 suspects, including wedding hall owner, after fatal fire

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The security forces of Iraq's Kurdistan region, upon an order of the Iraqi government, have detained the owner of a wedding hall in Al-Hamdaniya District in Nineveh Province where about 100 people died in a fire, Iraqi media reported.
Foreign Policy

Iran’s envoy stresses promoted trade ties with Saudi Arabia

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Iran’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia says Tehran and Riyadh have to overcome the hurdles to increase bilateral trade ties after years of severed relations.
Europe

Over half of Karabakh population fled: Armenia

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More than 65,000 Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia, Yerevan announced Thursday, as the exodus continues from the breakaway enclave which Azerbaijan recaptured last week in a lighting offensive.
Americas

Rights group sues US gov’t in order to block Israel’s entry to visa waiver programme

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A leading Arab American rights group sued the US government and called on a federal court to halt any further actions admitting Israel into the visa waiver programme (VWP). It stressed that Tel Aviv is not eligible for entry because it is discriminating against Palestinian Americans.
Science and Technology

Iran president says satellite launch proves failure of western sanctions and threats

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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has stated the successful launch of the Nour-3 satellite into orbit marks yet another national success, proving failure of the enemy's sanctions and threats.
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