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Healthcare

Iran Covid cases top 7.6mln, 35 new deaths

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The number the coronavirus cases in Iran has surpassed 7.6 million, according to the country's health ministry on Tuesday. Health officials keep warning of a new variant of coronavirus causing a surge in the number of infections in the country.
Foreign Policy

Official: Iran trying to re-open Embassy in Saudi Arabia before start of Hajj in June

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A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official says Tehran is making efforts to re-open its Embassy in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh and its Consulate in Jeddah prior to the beginning of the Hajj pilgrimage season in Saudi Arabia in June.
Foreign Policy

Azerbaijan says seeks developing “good-neighborly relations” with Iran

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Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ayhan Hajizadeh has stated that Baku is interested in developing “good-neighborly relations” with Tehran, and regards the continuation of talks with the Islamic Republic as important.
Middle East

Turkish opposition chief raps Erdogan over rising cost of living

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A video has gone viral in Turkey that shows the opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu holding an onion in the kitchen of his house, meant to criticize the government economic policies. A cost-of-living crisis amid rampant inflation and years of economic turmoil have eroded President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's support.
Human Rights

Think tank says US sanctions harming Iranian civilians

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US Sanctions imposed on Iran and other states have not only failed to achieve its foreign policy goals but have also caused significant harm to civilians, according to an American think tank.
Economy

China envoy: De-dollarization outcome of US economic coercion

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The Chinese ambassador to Iran says the de-dollarization process, which has been gathering pace on the international stage, is the outcome of America’s use of its national currency as a tool to exert economic pressure on others.
Local

Iran Defense Ministry says world will soon witness collapse of Israeli regime

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Iran's Defense Ministry has vehemently condemned Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people across the occupied territories. It predicted that the world will soon witness the collapse of the Zionist regime.
Middle East

Saudi envoy to Yemen says talks with Houthis aim to revive ceasefire

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Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Al-Jaber has stated that he had travelled to Sanaa to strengthen a truce and push dialogue that could end the eight-year-old war there.
Security

Senior anti-narcotics police officer killed in clashes with smugglers in southern Iran

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A senior counter-narcotics police official in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province has lost his life in armed clashes with drug traffickers in the region.
Middle East

Poll reveals dramatic drop in support for Israel’s Likud party

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A new opinion poll shows that support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party has plummeted to a low it has not been seen in 17 years. It has disclosed that the party would lose more than a third of its parliamentary seats if an election were held now.
Europe

Putin critic facing 25 years in jail says regrets nothing

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Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza has stated that he stands by all of his political statements, including those he made against Russia’s war on Ukraine, which led him to face 25 years in jail.
Americas

US designates WSJ journalist as “wrongfully detained” by Russia

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Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who is being held in Russia, has been designated as wrongfully arrested by the US State Department.
Europe

Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 412: UN confirms almost 8,500 civilians killed in Ukraine war

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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

Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Turkish diplomats to meet soon: Moscow

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A meeting between the senior diplomats of Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey is planned to be held in the near future, a high-ranking Russian official said on Monday.
Views

Expert: Israel cannot go it alone in a war on Iran

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An Iranian political expert says the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no other priority on his agenda than Iran.
Healthcare

Covid in Iran: 940 new cases, 39 deaths

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The Iranian Health Ministry figures on Monday showed that 940 people had tested positive for the Coronavirus over the past 24 hours. The disease has also killed 39 patients during the period.
Middle East

Egypt’s inflation climbs again to reach highest level since 2017

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Egypt’s annual urban inflation rose in March to its highest level in six years, mostly on the back of soaring food prices linked to the decline in the value of the local currency, data from the country's statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Monday.
Middle East

Palestinian teen killed in Israeli raid on WB refugee camp

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A 15-year-old Palestinian has been killed by Israeli troops in the Aqabet Jaber refugee camp in Jericho in the West Bank. Mohammad Fayez Balhan was shot in the head, chest and stomach.
Security

Iran army chief says Israel “too small” to pose threat to Islamic Republic

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Iran’s army chief has slammed comments by the chief of staff of the Israeli military that the regime is “ready” to attack Iran without the help of the US, saying “on an updated scale”, tackling Israel requires an operation the size of just one of the operations Iran carried out during the 1980’s war with Iraq.
Int'l Relations

Iran says Tehran and Riyadh to exchange envoys soon

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani confirmed that a Saudi delegation is visiting the Islamic Republic to follow up on the issue of reopening its diplomatic missions in Tehran and the city of Mashhad. He also added that Iran will send a delegation to Saudi Arabia soon in order to pave the way for reopening Tehran’s embassy and consulate in the Arab country.
Energy

Sources say Saudi Arabia to maintain crude supply in several Asian refiners despite OPEC+ cuts

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Saudi oil giant Aramco will supply full crude contract volumes loading in May to several North Asian buyers despite its pledge to cut output by 500,000 barrels per day, several sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.
Local

Iranian daily calls on govt. to stick to policy that led to negotiations with Saudi Arabia

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If Iranian government officials take the same path in international arena they trod during the negotiations with Saudi Arabia, it will have numerous benefits for Iran and the region, Tehran-based Jomhouri Eslami daily wrote in an article.
Asia

Afghanistan ranks 4th in 2023 crime rate: Report

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Afghanistan is ranked fourth on the list of countries with the highest crime rate in 2023, according to a report by the World Population Review (WPR).
Middle East

Persian Gulf council deplores Israeli raid on al-Aqsa Mosque

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The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has strongly condemned the Israeli raids on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, describing it as an act of desecration and aggression against Islam’s third holiest site.
Middle East

Saudi, Omani delegations meet Houthi leaders in Yemen after Tehran-Riyadh rapprochement

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Saudi and Omani envoys have held talks with Houthi officials in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as part of the international efforts to find a settlement to Yemen’s war.
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