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  • China Yesterday 19:22

    China holds massive V-Day parade, President Xi hails 'unstoppable' national rejuvenation

    China held a massive military parade in central Beijing on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of its victory in World War II, pledging the country's commitment to peaceful development in a world still fraught with turbulence and uncertainties, Xinhua reported. 

  • US Lebanon Yesterday 18:29

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Will the government drag Lebanon toward anarchy on Friday?

    BEIRUT—Lebanon will open a new stage in the conflict over the Resistance’s weapons next week despite Israel’s clear rejection of US envoy Thomas Barrack’s proposal, which originally aimed to impose security and military control, not just political control, over Lebanon.

  • US Venezuela 2025/09/03

    By Kleybergel González, Venezuelan journalist from FuserNews

    Venezuela stands unyielding against US aggression: Sovereignty is non-negotiable

    CARACAS – In recent weeks, the United States has intensified its policy of maximum military pressure against the government and people of Venezuela by sending eight warships and a nuclear submarine to Caribbean waters near the Venezuelan coast.

  • US navy 2025/09/03

    By Casey O. Jerson (BSc.) 

    War scars and peace dreams: Why the Caribbean and Latin America seek to remain a war-free zone

    CASTRIES – When Liu Yuanyuan shared her grandfather’s story in CGTN’s World War II: Remembered, Reimagined, Retold, she spoke of wounds that outlived the battlefield. Her grandfather, a soldier in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, carried memories of hiding in trees, eating bark to survive, and never seeing his parents in Shandong again. The trauma extended beyond 1945, woven into family stories and even shaping the choices of new generations. 

  • Trump Yesterday 18:03

    US claims it struck drug-carrying vessel that left Venezuela

    President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela and was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, AP reported. 

  • Yemen Ansarullah Yesterday 18:03

    By Wesam Bahrani 

    Yemen targets Israeli General Staff

    TEHRAN – Yemeni Armed Forces carried out five precision military operations using drones and cruise missiles against Israeli targets.

  • Israel Gaza war 2025/09/03

    By Professor Hossein Askari 

    American morality descending into the abyss with a heavy price to pay

    PORTLAND - Recall the horrors of the indigenous people of South Africa. In 1652 Dutch settlers along with German and French Huguenot followers established what later became the Boer Republic—a horrific land where the native black population was subjugated under a system of racial segregation, commonly referred to as apartheid.

  • US Venezuela 2025-09-02 20:48

    By Shahrokh Saei

    US strategy in Venezuela stirs regional alarm, echoes Bolton’s coup revelations

    TEHRAN – The recent deployment of United States military forces in the waters off Venezuela has reignited concerns over Washington’s long history of interventions and regime-change policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The move comes amid US claims that the deployment is intended to combat threats from regional drug cartels.

  • Newspapers blackout 2025-09-02 20:10

    By Garsha Vazirian

    Over 250 media outlets unite as Israel makes Gaza’s journalists its frontline targets

    TEHRAN – On September 1, more than 250 news outlets in over 70 countries staged a coordinated blackout—blank front pages, darkened homepages, and interrupted broadcasts—in an unprecedented act of solidarity.

  • The BRICS Summer School has been held in South Africa’s Johannesburg. (Photo: Visual Studio) 2025-09-02 19:24

    By Lucia Hubinská

    BRICS Summer School opens with calls for alternative narratives

    JOHANNESBURG – The first day of the BRICS Summer School unfolded with a sense of urgency in the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. Scholars and young leaders from across the Global South gathered to discuss alternative narratives in international relations, the deepening of intra-BRICS cooperation, and the role of youth in shaping the future of this rapidly evolving bloc.

  • Lebanon 2025-09-02 19:13

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Lebanon’s future, one year after the US–led Israeli aggression

    BEIRUT—Writing in The Telegraph, former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has said “Hezbollah shows no signs of giving up.  And, for well or ill, the UN’s longstanding Lebanon peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, has such a tarnished reputation for ineffectiveness that its mandate will be ended at the end of 2026.”

  • Xi Putin 2025-09-02 19:13

    President Xi: China-Russia relationship model of major-country ties

    Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that the China-Russia relationship has become an example of major-country ties, featuring permanent good-neighborly friendship, comprehensive strategic coordination and mutually beneficial cooperation, CGTN reported. 

  • Israeli tank 2025-09-02 16:38

    By Wesam Bahrani

    Israeli vehicles struck in Gaza City

    TEHRAN – The Palestinian resistance continues its operations against the Israeli occupation’s infantry trying to invade Gaza City via the Zeitoun neighborhood.

  • Afghanistan quake 2025-09-02 16:37

    Death toll surpasses 1,400 as Afghanistan reels from quake

    A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan just past midnight on Sunday, triggering one of the deadliest disasters in recent memory.

  • Sudan 2025-09-02 16:36

    Hundreds killed in Sudan landslide as entire village erased

    Hundreds have died after a landslide buried the village of Tarseen in Sudan’s Marra Mountains, officials and aid agencies said.

  • Gazans 2025-09-02 13:38

    Washington Post exposes Trump’s Gaza ‘GREAT Trust’ plan as displacement scheme

    A 38-page plan circulating in the Trump administration outlines a U.S.-run trusteeship for postwar Gaza, proposing to transform the devastated enclave into a hub of luxury resorts and technology industries — while uprooting millions of Palestinians in the process.

  • Israeli Military 2025-09-02 13:38

    Leaked Israeli documents reveal total failure of 'Gideon’s Chariots' operation

    TEHRAN — While Israeli officials publicly insist that Operation Gideon’s Chariots, a major May ground and air offensive aimed at defeating Hamas, freeing Israeli captives, and seizing control over most of the Gaza Strip, was a success, newly leaked internal documents from the Israeli military tell a very different story.

  • Yemen Missiles 2025-09-02 13:38

    By Wesam Bahrani

    Yemen strikes Israeli oil tanker

    TEHRAN – The Yemeni Armed Forces announced on Monday that they had carried out a ballistic missile strike on the SCARLET RAY, an Israeli oil tanker in the northern Red Sea, in response to the regime’s deadly Thursday attack on a cabinet meeting in Sanaa.

  • Yemen Funeral 2025-09-02 13:38

    By Sondoss Al Asaad

    Yemen sacrifices PM and ministers for Palestinians

    BEIRUT — Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahwi was martyred, along with several ministers who were either killed or wounded, in a raid by the Zionist regime on a government headquarters in Sana’a last Thursday.

  • Iran SCO 2025/09/01

    By Chen Guifang, Political Editor of CGTN.COM

    Iran steps into the spotlight as China summit rallies Global South solidarity

    BEIJING – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s attendance at the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in China, along with the Iranian supreme leader’s trilingual message on bilateral ties, reflects the growing strategic alignment between the two nations.

  • Qinduo Xu is a senior fellow at Pangoal Institution, a local think tank in Beijing. 2025/09/01

    By Qinduo Xu

    Iran and China: Two civilizations, one shared future

    BEIJING – When Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei penned a post on X in both Persian and Chinese about bilateral relationship, the symbolism was unmistakable.

  • Iran Pezeshkian 2025/09/01

    Iran bridges East and West through SCO, enhances cooperation with China

    TIANJIN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, China, joining leaders from more than 20 countries and 10 international organizations.

  • In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, center pose for a group photo with international guests including Russian President Vladimir Putin, seventh from left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fourth from left and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, second from left before a welcome banquet for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2025 at the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, northern China on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (Huang Jingwen/Xinhua via AP) 2025-09-01 22:39

    By Shahrokh Saei 

    SCO Summit in Tianjin: Historic milestones and bold roadmap for the future

    TEHRAN – The Chinese city of Tianjin has captured global attention as it hosted the latest annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), marking a pivotal moment for the Eurasian alliance and international diplomacy at large. 

  • Lake Bled, host of the Bled Strategic Forum, which started on Monday and continues through Tuesday, with European leaders—including EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas—in attendance. (Photo: Kremsnita group) 2025/09/01

    By Mojca Pišek Mika

    Western response to Israeli genocide: Insufficient and hypocritical

    LJUBLJANA – There is strong public pressure on the centre-liberal government in Slovenia, as the majority of the population strongly supports the Palestinian cause—not only calling for a ceasefire and an end to the genocide but also backing the Palestinians' efforts toward their own state and autonomy within it.

  • Abu Obeida 2025-09-01 15:26

    Israel claims it killed Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida

    Israel has claimed responsibility for the killing of Abu Obaida, the long-serving spokesman for Hamas’s military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in an airstrike that devastated a residential block in Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood on Saturday.

  • Afghanistan Quake 2025-09-01 15:23

    Devastation grips eastern Afghanistan after powerful quake

    A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan just before midnight on Sunday, killing at least 800 people and injuring more than 2,800, according to officials. The toll is expected to rise as rescuers reach cut-off mountain communities and isolated villages.

  • Nordic 2025/08/31

    By Mahdi Zolfaghari

    Will the welfare state in Europe be transformed?

    Sweden and Finland’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) entails both potential and actual risks that will challenge the socio-economic structure of the welfare state in Scandinavia and the broader Nordic region.

  • Islamabad 2025/08/30

    By Muhammad Akmal Khan

    Double-tap silence: Erasing Gaza’s storytellers

    ISLAMABAD – Khan Younis awakened under an indistinct dawn, its disarming silence resonating across its streets and rooftops, where Palestinian journalists adjusted cameras in preparation to livestream another day from Gaza's never-ending night. Smoke drifted over broken streets; sunlight caught shards of glass; these exhausted journalists continued performing their last duty: to record, to witness, and to keep memory alive when others chose not to witness.

  • Mashhad 2025-08-30 20:42

    Ferdowsi University hosts meeting on Israeli state terrorism 

    MASHHAD - An international conference on "Israeli State Terrorism" was convened by the Habilian Association, bringing together experts from Iran, Italy, Argentina, and Pakistan to mark Iran's National Day of Fight against Terrorism. The conference provided a platform for a multi-faceted critique of Israeli policies and international backing.

  • Bibi and Abbas II 2025-08-30 20:03

    By Garsha Vazirian

    A subcontractor abandoned: PA discovers collaboration buys no protection, or visas

    The visa ban is an assault on Palestinian representation

    TEHRAN – The Trump administration announced Friday it would deny and revoke visas for about 80 senior Palestinian officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York in September. The move, unprecedented in scope, would bar most of the Palestinian delegation from one of their few global platforms.