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Tehran on Monday blamed European powers for the failure of the 2015 nuclear deal, accusing them of breaking their commitments ahead of renewed talks in Istanbul with Britain, France and Germany.

The 2015 deal, reached between Iran and the UN Security Council’s permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — plus Germany, imposed curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.

But it unravelled in 2018 when the United States, during Donald…

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine, said on Sunday that Israel is deliberately starving two million people in Gaza and killing children, describing these acts as similar to Nazi crimes.

Her statement followed reports that a disabled Palestinian man had died of hunger in Gaza.

“My generation was taught Nazism was the greatest evil; and it was; and colonial crimes should’ve not been…

The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has reported that Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa has survived three assassination attempts over the past seven months.

The first attempt reportedly occurred in March, when a Turkish security unit detected suspicious activity as Sharaa was leaving the People’s Palace (Presidential Palace). Three security guards intervened and managed to detain the attacker, who was taken into custody and questioned. According to the newspaper,…