The United Nations rights chief said Tuesday he was “horrified” by the mounting violence directed at protesters across Iran, amid reports that hundreds have been killed.
A military escalation between the United States and Iran would have grave consequences for the region, Qatar said Tuesday after Washington threatened strikes in response to a government crackdown on protests in the Islamic republic.
Iran has entered its fifth day of an effective nationwide internet blackout as anti-government protests, born of deep economic grievances, spread across several cities. While independent verification of casualties and overall scale remains constrained by the telecommunications lockdown, activists and monitoring groups using Starlink and shortwave radio report significant violence and mass arrests.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that Iran’s regime was living out its last days, as pressure grew on the Islamic republic over crackdowns on protests that have reportedly killed hundreds of people.
The U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) criticizes European policies and institutions, explicitly backs nationalist parties as preferred partners, and argues that the continent’s fragility stems from the erosion of sovereignty, national identity, and political confidence.
Washington announced Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado will meet President Donald Trump this week as pressure grew on the interim leadership in Caracas to speed up the release of political prisoners.
Venezuela’s interim government said it was ready to pursue a “new agenda” with the European Union and Britain following talks with their envoys after Nicolas Maduro was ousted as president.
President Donald Trump said that the United States would be “screwed” if the Supreme Court rules that some of his tariffs are illegal.
At least 648 protesters have been killed in the crackdown by Iranian security forces on a protest movement that has shaken the Islamic republic, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Monday, warning the actual toll could be far higher.
The EU said conditions were not yet ripe to talk to Russia’s Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine, after the leaders of France and Italy said it was time Europe re-engaged.
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