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2 pilots killed as Russian Su-34 bomber crashes

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Russian Su-34 bomber

A preliminary assessment suggests the aircraft, which was on a routine training mission, suffered a technical failure, the ministry was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.

North Ossetia is located in the North Caucasus, and borders on South Ossetia and Georgia.

The twin-seat plane is capable of striking ground targets with high-precision bombs and missiles. Russian Su-34s have flown multiple combat missions in Syria and Ukraine.

The incident occurred two months after a Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bomber crashed in southern Russia when returning from a raid in Ukraine, killing two of its four crew members.

In October 2022, a Russian Su-34 suffered an engine failure and crashed into an apartment block in the southern city of Yeysk, killing 16 people. Both pilots survived.

Iran calls on UN to pressure Israel into honoring ICJ rulings

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Gaza War

In a letter sent to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday, Iran’s interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said the UN has a duty to urge all member states to refrain from collaborating with the aggressor regime as such a move could constitute complicity in the most serious crimes.

“Once again, I deem it necessary to underline the crucial role and inevitable responsibility of the United Nations with respect to the ongoing massacre in the occupied Palestinian territories by the Israeli regime,” he added.

“In this context, it is highly expected that your Excellency utilize all means available … to put pressure on the Israeli regime in order to compel it to abide by the binding provisional measure of the International Court of Justice and stop genocide of the Palestinian people.”

In a case brought by South Africa against Israel, the ICJ, the UN’s top court, issued three provisional measures on January 26, March 28 and May 24.

They respectively ordered Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent genocide in Gaza, allow unimpeded access of food aid into the besieged Palestinian territory, and immediately halt its military invasion of the southern city of Rafah.

Also in his letter, Bagheri Kani said the international community should urgently put an end to the ongoing atrocities perpetrated by the usurping entity in the occupied Palestinian territories and protect innocent civilians.

“I wish to reiterate that the international community is legally and morally duty-bound to stop and prevent the genocide of the Palestinian nation. It is imperative to ensure the immediate and unhindered fulfillment of all their humanitarian needs,” he noted.

Under the UN Charter, Bagheri Kani added, all states, specifically those who provide support to Israel, have legal responsibility to prevent genocide by ceasing aid to the genocidal regime.

Israel waged its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 37,124 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 84,712 others in the Gaza Strip.

Israel is deliberately blocking and delaying the flow of food and basic supplies into Gaza and using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.

US rights groups file appeal against Biden, Blinken, Austin over Gaza war

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Biden Blinken

The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York civil liberties group, has filed an appeal on behalf of the Palestinian human rights organisations Al-Haq and Defence for Children International as well as Palestinians in Gaza and Palestinian Americans in the US in the Ninth District Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

They assert that the US (including the president, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin) is complicit in an Israeli genocide in Gaza.

The original lawsuit was filed in November in federal court, but it was dismissed in January on jurisdictional grounds.

“I promised my surviving family members in Gaza that I would do everything in my power to advocate on their behalf,” stated Laila El-Haddad, a plaintiff in the case who has lost five family members in the war.

Tel Aviv has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an October 7 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.The military onslaught enjoys unreserved military and intelligence support on the part of the US. Washington has also vetoed several United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in the war.

More than 37,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and nearly 84,700 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

UN Security Council endorses US-backed resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

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UN Security Council Gaza

The resolution, which was backed by 14 nations except Russia, welcomed the truce and hostage release proposal announced on 31 May by President Joe Biden, and urged “both parties to fully implement its terms without delay and without condition”.

Unlike earlier drafts, the resolution states that Israel has “accepted” the ceasefire proposal and calls on Hamas to do the same.

“This proposal is the best opportunity we have right now to bring at least a temporary halt to this fighting, to be able to get more assistance in, get hostages released,” deputy US ambassador to the UN Robert Wood stated.

“We want to put pressure to Hamas to accept this deal. So far it hasn’t accepted this deal. That’s why we to have this resolution, because we’re on a cusp of doing something really, really important.”

Hamas welcomed the resolution after the vote. The group said in a statement after the vote that it “welcomed” the resolution, and expressed “readiness” to implement its principles through indirect talks with Israel.

Hamas added that the resolution was “consistent with the demand of our people and resistance”, including a permanent end to Israel’s war on Gaza, a complete withdrawal of the Israeli military from the strip and a prisoner exchange deal.

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters the Palestinian group backed the resolution proposed by Biden and was ready to negotiate over the details.

Abu Zuhri added that it was up to the US to make sure Israel abides by it.

“The US administration is facing a real test to carry out its commitments in compelling the occupation to immediately end the war in an implementation of the UN Security Council resolution.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Tel Aviv meeting with officials on Tuesday in a push to end the eight-month-old Israeli assault on Gaza.

Speaking from Tel Aviv, Blinken said conversations on plans for Gaza after the war ends would continue on Tuesday afternoon and in the next couple of days.

He added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “reaffirmed his commitment” to a Gaza ceasefire deal during their meeting in Jerusalem.

Blinken also stated he believes there is a “strong consensus” amongst Israeli leaders to move forward with the plan.

“This proposal and moving forward on it is the first step,” he told reporters, saying, “We want to see it come to fruition.”

Blinken added that Hamas’s welcoming of the resolution was a “hopeful sign” and that while the US remains committed to the Palestinian group’s defeat, military means are not sufficient.

“There has to be a clear political plan, a clear humanitarian plan, in order to ensure Hamas does not in any shape or form resume control of Gaza.”

Israel criticised the proposal last week for advocating an end to the war in exchange for the release of the captives, a stance that Netanyahu’s government publicly opposed.

On 31 May, Biden detailed what he said was a three-phase Israeli proposal for a hostage exchange and eventual permanent cessation of hostilities in Gaza.

But achieving a ceasefire has been elusive for the US and mediators Qatar and Egypt.

Hamas has met the proposal with scepticism. Middle East Eye has reported that the text of the proposal received by Hamas does not guarantee a permanent cessation of hostilities as described by Biden in his speech.

And despite US claims that the proposal Biden unveiled was backed by Israel, Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Israel intends to continue fighting in Gaza until it eliminates Hamas’s governing and military capabilities.

Despite enduring eight months of Israeli bombardment, Hamas continues to put fighters in the field and reconstitute itself in areas of Gaza Israel has abandoned.

Hamas is unlikely to agree to a hostage deal if it does not guarantee that there will be a permanent ceasefire in Gaza after.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, traveling in the region on Monday, blamed Hamas for the failure to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.

After meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo, Blinken said: “My message to governments throughout the region, to people throughout the region, is – if you want a ceasefire, press Hamas to say ‘yes’.”

The US has used its veto power at the UN to shield Israel from censure.

The US has cast three vetoes against calls for a ceasefire. Separately, Washington also blocked an amendment calling for a ceasefire that Russia had tried including on a Security Council resolution in December.

Amid tensions between the US and Israel over the latter’s conduct of its war on Gaza, the US has more recently signaled its frustration with Israel at the international body.

In March, the US abstained from a vote at the Security Council calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The Biden administration is at odds with Israel on a postwar plan for Gaza. For months, CIA director Bill Burns has been leading US efforts to secure a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that could end the war and defuse regional tensions.

Iran rejects US-French joint roadmap as politically-motivated

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Nasser Kanaani

In a statement on Monday, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron released the “unfounded and politically-motivated” roadmap in continuation of their failed policies.

“As we have repeatedly announced, the Islamic Republic of Iran is committed to technical cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) within the framework of international rights and obligations and based on the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Safeguards Agreement,” he said.

The official reiterated Iran’s “undeniable” role in establishing and strengthening regional and international stability and security and fighting terrorist groups.

The spokesman also reaffirmed Iran’s principled stance on the need to solve disputes between the two sides involved in the Ukrainian conflict through political channels.

Kanaani added it is ridiculous that the supporters of the child-killing Israeli regime and those who repressed university students protesting its war crimes against the people of Palestine allow themselves to lecture others on morals and human rights.

He recommended the French president not pursue the hostile policies of the US government against Iran.

In their joint roadmap released on Saturday, Biden and Macron claimed Iran is transferring military materials and components to Russia to be used against Ukraine. The two presidents accused Iran of destabilizing role in the region.

They reaffirmed their determination to increase pressure on Iran to curb its “destabilizing” regional activities, nuclear escalation and missile proliferation, halt its support to Russia’s “war of aggression against Ukraine,” secure its full cooperation with the IAEA, and pave the way for a future negotiated solution that ensures its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.

Iran has repeatedly rejected accusations that it has supplied weapons to Russia for direct use in the war in Ukraine. It has also discarded allegations of supplying weapons to anti-Israeli and anti-US groups in the region.

UN says more than half of Gaza’s buildings destroyed

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Gaza War

“More than half of all buildings have been destroyed,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on X, citing data from the United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT).

Stating the destruction in Gaza is “indescribable,” it added: “Clearing the rubble will take years. Healing from the psychological trauma of this war will take even longer.”

Reiterating its call for a cease-fire, the statement noted: “This suffering must end.”

More than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since then, most of them women and children, and much of the territory lies in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

Russia says Germany’s Scholz and France’s Macron belong to ‘ash heap of history’

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Scholz and Macron

Scholz’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is projected to finish third in the key ballot, behind the center-right Christian Democrats and the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Macron’s Besoin d’Europe coalition is expected to win less than half of the votes received by the right-wing National Rally party associated with Marine Le Pen, prompting the French president to call a snap parliamentary election after preliminary results emerged on Sunday.

In a social media post on Monday, Medvedev claimed the outcome proves that Scholz and Macron are “respected by no one”. The former Russian leader linked the poor performance at the ballot box with the “idiotic economic and migration policy” pursued by the two leaders and their support for Ukraine “at the cost of [their] own citizens”.

“Time to retire. To the ash heap of history!” said Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, earlier called on Scholz and Macron to resign and to “stop victimizing the citizens of their states.”

Officials in Moscow have accused leaders of EU nations of betraying the interests of their populations in favor of US geopolitical goals. Responding to the Ukraine crisis in 2022, the bloc vowed to support Kiev militarily for “as long as it takes”, and imposed an array of economic sanctions against Russia. Most notably, Brussels has pushed EU countries to stop buying Russian natural gas.

Large consumers such as Germany have struggled to substitute cheap Russian pipeline fuel with other sources, including renewables and expensive liquified natural gas. American LNG producers have since taken over a large share of the European market. A hike in energy prices has forced many energy-intensive businesses to either move out of the EU or shut down entirely.

US considering unilateral agreement with Hamas to free American captives: Report

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Israel Hostages

Such negotiations would exclude Israel and would be mediated by Qatari interlocutors, as has been the case with the ongoing discussions, according to NBC News on Monday, citing two current and two former US officials.

The Joe Biden administration believes that Hamas is holding five American hostages who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack.

The officials also seek to retrieve the remains of three additional US citizens who are believed to have been killed on the same day by Hamas, which then transported their bodies into Gaza.

The officials were uncertain about what the US might give Hamas in return for the release of American captives, the report added.

“But, the officials said, Hamas could have an incentive to cut a unilateral deal with the US because doing so would likely further strain relations between the US and Israel and put additional domestic political pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” it said.

One of the former officials said the internal discussions have also taken place in the context of whether the possibility of the US cutting a unilateral deal with Hamas might pressure Netanyahu to agree to a version of the current cease-fire proposal, according to the report.

On Saturday, the Israeli army freed four hostages during a military operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

During the operation, at least 274 Palestinians were killed and 700 others injured in a bombardment of the camp, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The Israeli operation will likely make even more difficult US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s endeavors to secure an agreement and release the remaining hostages, a senior administration official told NBC News.

Securing the release of the Israeli hostages has only bolstered Netanyahu’s resolve to persist with military operations in Gaza, rather than committing to cease the conflict, according to the official.

“The current senior US official, though, said the idea of a trying to negotiate a deal between the Biden administration and Hamas remained a ‘very real option’ if the current proposed ceasefire deal fails to advance,” the report noted.

More than 37,100 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and nearly 84,700 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

Iran says not to allow disruption of regional stability, security by Israel

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Ali Bagheri Kani

Addressing the ministerial meeting of BRICS, the group of the world major economies, in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on Monday, Bagheri said the Islamic Republic of Iran acts seriously in the path to beefing up regional stability, and the recent anti-Israeli operation True Promise carried out by the Iranian Armed Forces, proved Tehran is serious to that end.

BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Bagheri Kani stated as a new member state of BRICS, Iran will act responsibly in all political, security, economic, financial, cultural, and public domains.

He referred to the months-long Israeli onslaught against Gaza, adding the developments in the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, are a manifestation of the West’s unjust world order. The Iranian caretaker foreign minister warned the continuation of the current status will undoubtedly put the international peace and stability in jeopardy.

The diplomat added a complete end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the nuclear disarmament of the Israeli regime will lead to the real and all-out peace, stability and security in the Middle East.

BRICS meeting kicks off with minute’s silence for late Iran president, FM

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BRICS

The summit begun on Monday, with the participants observing a minute’s silence in memory of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, who lost their lives in a tragic helicopter accident last month.

It continued with an address by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated the participants at the meeting will discuss “international relations, improvement of the global governance system with emphasis on strengthening the role of developing countries, conflict resolution, and interaction in leading multilateral platforms”.

The BRICS group of fast-developing economies initially consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

This year, the group was expanded to include Iran, Egypt, the UAE and Ethiopia as new members.

The bloc, which is often seen as an alternative to the Western economic and political hegemony, comprises almost 46 percent of the global population, 36 percent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) and 25 percent of the global trade measured in terms of exports.

Iran’s interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani arrived in Nizhny Novgorod early Monday to attend the BRICS ministerial meeting.

Speaking to reporters, he said, “BRICS is the biggest international economic and trade organization that operates outside the framework of Western unilateralism.”

“The presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this organization is indicative of the position and importance of our country in the multilateral [world] system,” he added.

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