Israel welcomed on Sunday the reinstatement of broad UN sanctions against Iran, saying they were a direct response to what it called violations committed by the Islamic Republic in its nuclear program.
The return of widespread sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program “must not be the end of diplomacy” with the Islamic republic, the European Union’s top diplomat said on Sunday.
The United States has asked European countries to deliver a comprehensive blueprint on the Muslim Brotherhood’s organizational structures, networks, and legal fronts within their territories, a European diplomatic source familiar with the matter said.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that 700,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza City to the south since late August, as it presses an air and ground assault on the urban center.
Drone flights that caused Danish airports to close on two nights this week were a systematic and hybrid operation by a “professional actor,” the defence minister said on Thursday.
North Korea is believed to possess up to two tons of highly enriched uranium, South Korea’s unification minister said on Thursday. “Intelligence agencies estimate Pyongyang’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium – more than 90 percent pure – at up to 2,000 kilograms,” South Korea’s Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said.
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly witnessed a new wave of recognition of the State of Palestine in an effort to demonstrate international support and mount pressure on Israel to stop the war in Gaza, but it fails to translate into any tangible change on the ground, despite the political symbolism.
The Kremlin on Wednesday said there was “no alternative” for Russia than to continue its offensive on Ukraine that it launched in 2022. It also rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim that Russia was a “paper tiger.”
Israeli media reported that Israeli and Syrian officials are nearing a breakthrough as momentum builds toward finalizing a security agreement between the two sides.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN Security Council that China could pressure Russia to end the war in his country. “China is also represented here, a powerful nation on which Russia now depends completely,” Zelensky told the council, of which China is a permanent member.
