Tehran, Moscow sign $25 bn deal to build nuclear plants in Iran: state media
Tehran, Iran -- Iran and Russia signed a $25 billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic republic,...
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Palestinian leader to address UN as the US weighs whether to stop Israel’s Gaza annexation
Steve Witkoff, Trump's golfing friend turned roving global negotiator, said that Trump in a separate meeting with a group of...
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Israeli army shoots dead three Palestinians in West Bank
Nablus, Palestinian Territories - Three Palestinian gunmen were shot dead after they fired at Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank...
- Violence intensified last year but has worsened in the West Bank since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to office in December.
- Since the start of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of 81 Palestinian adults and children, including militants and civilians.
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Ready for prisoner swap with US, says Iranian foreign minister
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran's top diplomat on Sunday said "everything is ready" to implement a stalled prisoner exchange deal with the...
- At least 16 Western passport holders, most of them dual nationals - which Iran does not generally recognize - are detained in the country.
- At least three US citizens are held in the country's prisons, according to Iran's judiciary and the US State Department.
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Iran serves death penalty to a Swedish-Iranian dissident over ‘terrorism’
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran's judiciary on Sunday confirmed a death sentence for a Swedish-Iranian dissident for "terrorism" over two years since...
- Habib Chaab was convicted on charges of "corruption on earth" and for creating a rebel group.
- Before the dissident Chaab, six persons were awarded death sentence on the same charges by Iran.
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Will plant 5m trees in country, says Iraqi Prime Minister
BASRA, IRAQ -  Iraq's prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe impacts of climate change on the...
- Oil-rich but war-battered Iraq suffers from extreme summer heat, frequent droughts, desertification and regular dust storms.
- Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told a climate conference that more than seven million Iraqis had already been affected by climate change.
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Over 100 arrested over school poisonings in Iran
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran has announced more than 100 arrests nationwide over the mystery poisonings of thousands of schoolgirls, charging that...
- Iran's interior ministry had announced the arrests over the suspected poison attacks in over 200 schools.
- In the wave of cases since late November, schoolgirls have suffered fainting, nausea, shortness of breath and other symptoms.
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Israeli strikes kill two pro-Iran fighters in Syria, says war monitor
Israeli airstrikes targeting a weapons depot in Syria killed two pro-Iran fighters and wounded three soldiers, a war monitor said....
- Since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against its northern neighbor.
- Israel has targeted government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters in Syria.
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UAE FM welcomes China-brokered Saudi-Iran pact to resume ties
Abu Dhabi, UAE--Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has made a phone call...
- Al Nahyan highlighted the importance of the agreement and its role in achieving stability in the region and meeting the aspirations of their peoples for development and prosperity
- The UAE minister applauded the role of China in bringing about the resumption of Saudi-Iranian diplomatic relations that had remained broken for about seven years
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Syria facility attempts to rehabilitate IS-scarred foreign children
More than 50 boys aged 11-17, some with parents hailing from Britain, France, Germany or the United States, live at the...
- The boys at the Orkesh rehabilitation center were transferred from Al-Hol and Roj, authorities said, as well as from the Ghwayran prison
- Kurdish authorities have repeatedly called on countries to repatriate their citizens, but foreign governments have allowed only a trickle to return home
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UN envoy calls on Libyan factions to agree terms for polls by mid-June
TRIPOLI, LIBYA - UN envoy Abdoulaye Bathily called on rival administrations in conflict-torn Libya Saturday to agree terms for elections "by...
- The UN envoy defended his proposal in a news conference in Tripoli, stressing it was "not a foreign-imposed solution".
- Libya remains split between a nominally interim government in Tripoli in the west, and another in the east.
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Iran to buy Russian Sukhoi jets to replace old fleet
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran has finalized a deal to buy Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia, state media reported, as...
- Iranian air force has an old fleet of fighter jets and have had issues to find its spare parts
- Most of the planes of Iranian air force dates back to Soviet era including MiG and Sukhoi
Tehran, Moscow sign $25 bn deal to build nuclear plants in Iran: state media
Tehran, Iran -- Iran and Russia signed a $25 billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic republic,...
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Top Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
The killing of Aqil was the second of a senior Hizbollah commander since the start of the war in Gaza,...
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Israel pounds Lebanon as Hezbollah vows revenge for device blasts
Israel said it struck hundreds of targets in Lebanon, hours after Hezbollah's leader vowed to retaliate for two "unprecedented" rounds...
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Hizbollah chief admits ‘unprecedented’ blow in device blasts
Israel has not commented on the attacks in which Hizbollah operatives' pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in supermarkets, on streets and...
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Latest batch of device explosions in Lebanon stoking fears of a full-blown war with Israel
A second deadly wave of unprecedented explosions in the strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah left it in disarray on Thursday, hours...
- The latest batch of device explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 others
- Hezbollah said Israel was "fully responsible for this criminal aggression" and vowed revenge
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Lebanon under attack. Fears of all-out war. 20 killed, 450 injured. Israel blamed and flayed.
A second wave of device explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 in Lebanon on Wednesday, officials said,...
- Experts said Israeli operatives had likely planted explosives on the paging devices
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged governments "not to weaponize civilian objects"
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UN rights chief demands accountability for Lebanon pager blasts
The explosions that killed 12 people, including two children, and wounded up to 2,800 others
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights described the blasts as "shocking"
- Turk highlighted that the attack had come at an "extremely volatile time"