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The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the Islamic Republic has already introduced special initiatives for the advancement of the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, stressing that the United States needs to make a political decision and respond to Tehran’s proposals.

Decisions by Finland and Sweden to join the Western military alliance threaten to increase the chance of armed confrontation, Russian official says.

The foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland plan to travel “soon” to Turkey for talks to address Ankara’s objections to NATO membership for the two Nordic countries, news agency TT reported, citing the Swedish foreign office. Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde and Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto would meet their …

Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald said her party had a “fairly tough” meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday in which they told him taking unilateral action over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland would be wrong. Johnson says the European Union must make concessions on the …

The Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced on Monday the official results of the parliamentary elections in five districts, hailing the democratic achievement of holding the vote. Mawlawi announced the names of the winners as follows: 1- Bekaa I: Ramy Abu Hamda, George Akis, Michel Daher, Elias Estephan, Salim Aoun, …

Officials have confirmed a total of 50 deaths and over 1.21 million cases of “fever” since late April

A prisoners advocacy group says more than one million Palestinians have been detained by Israel since the ‘Nakba’ in 1948, which marked the loss of the Palestinian homeland.

A number of Syrian citizens were killed and several others were injured when two bombs exploded simultaneously on the outskirts of the city of Al Kiswah, south of Damascus.

Shootings in a church in California, and a market in Texas left at least three dead and several injured on Sunday, US authorities said.

Russia’s defense ministry said Monday that an agreement has been reached to evacuate injured soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol. “An agreement was reached with representatives of the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal in Mariupol to evacuate the wounded,” the ministry said. It added …

Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium. At a meeting in Germany, the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty …

The country’s ruling party has followed the example of neighboring Finland

Polls have closed in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, which many hope could set the stage for recovery from economic woes fueled by US-led sanctions on the country.

On the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (Day of Catastrophe), Palestine’s Foreign Ministry says the catastrophe lingers on amid Israel’s apartheid against the Palestinian people.

News sources reported that the blast took place in Aden city in the south of Yemen and left several people injured.

A man in military-style gear entered a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and began firing a rifle

The Nordic country’s bid to join the US-led military bloc now needs approval from parliament

Three soldiers and three children have been killed in a bombing near a military vehicle in Pakistan’s northwestern region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto on Saturday that ditching neutrality and joining NATO would be a mistake that could damage relations between their two countries, the Kremlin said. The two countries said their presidents spoke by phone two days after Finland declared its intention to …

The Pentagon said that Congress must pass a pending $40 billion Ukraine aid package by Thursday to avoid interrupting US weapons shipments to the Kiev government in its war with Russia.