A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, prepared Sunday to leave from Barcelona to try to 鈥榖reak the illegal siege of Gaza鈥�, organisers said.
Lebanon鈥檚 speaker of parliament Nabih Berri, an ally of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, called on Sunday for dialogue over its weapons, days before the government is expected to approve an army plan to disarm the group.
The leader of Yemen鈥檚 Huthi rebels said on Sunday his group would keep launching attacks against Israel, a day after confirming that an Israeli strike had killed their government鈥檚 prime minister.
The prime minister of Yemen鈥檚 Huthis was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with other officials earlier this week, the Iran-backed rebels announced on Saturday.
The Red Cross warned on Saturday that any Israeli efforts to evacuate Gaza City would put residents at risk, as Israel鈥檚 military tightened its siege on the area ahead of a major planned offensive.
French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Saturday there should be no restrictions on access to next month鈥檚 UN General Assembly, after the United States said it would deny visas to members of the Palestinian authority.
European powers said Friday they were ready to drop a new sanctions push on Iran if it addresses concerns on its nuclear programme over the next month, but Tehran denounced the offer as insincere.
The Israeli military declared Gaza City 鈥榓 dangerous combat zone鈥� on Friday ahead of a looming offensive to conquer the Palestinian territory鈥檚 largest city after almost two years of devastating war.
The United States said Friday it will deny visas to members of the Palestinian Authority to attend next month鈥檚 UN General Assembly, where France is leading a push to recognize a Palestinian state.
At least 841 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, decrying 鈥榓 systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of state intimidation鈥�.
A Syria monitor said Friday that the death toll from sectarian violence in Sweida province in July has climbed to nearly 2,000, after dozens more bodies were identified.
UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at reports of 鈥榚nforced disappearances鈥� of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, urging Israel to end the 鈥榟einous crime鈥�.
Journalists in the UK rallied Wednesday in central London in solidarity with colleagues in Gaza, in the wake of two Israeli military strikes earlier this week that killed five journalists.
Israeli forces conducted an overnight airborne raid on a site near the Syrian capital after bombing it several times, Syrian state media reported Thursday.
The head of Save the Children described in horrific detail Wednesday the slow agony of starving children in Gaza, saying they are so weak they do not cry.
