TEHRAN – The skeletal remains of Gaza’s neighborhoods have become a site of renewed tragedy as Storm Byron batters the enclave, claiming over a dozen lives since Wednesday.
The dead include women and newborns, victims of a catastrophic…

TEHRAN – The skeletal remains of Gaza’s neighborhoods have become a site of renewed tragedy as Storm Byron batters the enclave, claiming over a dozen lives since Wednesday.
The dead include women and newborns, victims of a catastrophic…

Gaza’s civil defence agency on Friday said at least 13 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.
Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and…

A raft of proposed measures from Israel’s ruling coalition targeting the media has sparked outrage, with critics warning the planned reforms would deliver a blow to press freedom.
Suggested changes to public broadcasting, coupled with a bid to…

Gaza’s civil defence agency on Friday said at least 16 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.
Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and…

Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a child, in a case that sparked international concern over the plight of women sentenced to death in the Islamic republic,…

In her second public appearance after more than a year in hiding, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has promised that, one way or another, the presidency of Nicolas Maduro will end.
Speaking to reporters in Oslo, Norway, on Friday,…

TEHRAN – The European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) decision to allow Israel into the 2026 Eurovision contest has triggered a wave of condemnation. The Swiss winner of 2024 announced they would return their trophy, arguing that Eurovision’s…

President Masoud Pezeshkian and his Iraqi counterpart President Abdul Latif Rashid met on the sidelines of the International Forum of Peace and Trust in Turkmenistan, on Friday.
In the meeting, the Iraqi President expressed his pleasure at the…

TEHRAN – The IOC Executive Board (EB) has decided to nominate Soraya Aghaei Haji Agha, a badminton player from Iran who competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and a member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission (AC), as a candidate for IOC…

TEHRAN – The confrontation between the United States and Venezuela in late 2025 is not a sudden flare-up but the continuation of Washington’s long-standing pressure campaign.
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy…