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2025-07-09 17:11
European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths in 10 days
Some 2,300 people are likely to have died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during a severe heatwave that ended last week, with two-thirds of the deaths directly linked to climate change, according to a new study, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-07-09 16:38
By Staff Writer
Media censorship in the name of sensitivity: BBC’s failure on Gaza coverage
TEHRAN- The recent decision by the BBC to pull several senior staff and issue a formal apology after airing Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury 2025 performance marks a troubling chapter in media censorship and the suppression of legitimate protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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2025-07-09 16:17
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Normalization process between Syria and Israel accelerating
BEIRUT — Israeli i24news revealed that an upcoming meeting in September—sponsored by President Donald Trump at the White House—will bring together Abu Muhammad al-Julani, Syria’s self-appointed president (currently known as Ahmed al-Sharaa), with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign a security agreement that will pave the way for a “peace” agreement.
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2025-07-08 22:14
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Concern over Barrack’s political storm: Will the trick of former US envoys be repeated?
BEIRUT — Observers took note of the unusually optimistic tone expressed by U.S. Special Envoy to Syria, Thomas Barrack, particularly in light of the heightened rhetoric suggesting that Lebanon could face major escalation if it failed to comply with his proposal to disarm Hezbollah.
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2025-07-08 22:13
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza turns into occupation's graveyard
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime’s soldiers have been caught up in a sophisticated ambush described as one of the “deadliest” since October 7, 2023.
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2025-07-08 22:10
By Sahar Dadjoo
Exclusive: Expert says Israel would have been destroyed had it attacked Iran without Western backing
The Canadian lawyer says attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites were a ‘violation of international law’
TEHRAN - In an exclusive interview with Tehran Times, Dimitri Lascaris, a prominent Canadian lawyer, journalist, and human rights activist, offers a powerful critique of the recent Israeli and U.S. military strikes against Iran.
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2025-07-08 22:03
Israeli plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah
Israeli human rights lawyer condemns the move as nothing less than an 'operational plan for a crime against humanity'
Israel's Israel Katz says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
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2025-07-07 22:55
By Shahrokh Saei
SCO official: Iran-Russia ties set to multiply through people-to-people diplomacy
SHENYANG – Stanislav Korolev, Director of National Center of Public Diplomacy for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Russia, has highlighted the enduring strength and growing depth of Iran–Russia relations, emphasizing the pivotal role of people-to-people diplomacy in building a resilient future for both nations.
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2025-07-07 22:50
Foreseeable flaws in Gaza aid project led to shooting of Palestinians
GHF program has drawn huge crowds near Israeli troops, who opened fire multiple times
The repeated fatal shootings of Palestinians seeking food at distribution centers in Gaza since late May are an outcome of the aid project’s flawed design, which drew enormous crowds and brought them in proximity to Israeli troops, who opened fire on multiple occasions, according to experts in humanitarian aid programs, witness testimony and visual evidence.
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2025-07-07 22:39
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Israel escalates aggression on eve of Barrack visit: Will the war resume?
BEIRUT — The Israeli regime has expanded the scope of its strikes on the eve of the visit of Thomas Barrack – the U.S. Special Envoy to Syria - to Beirut to receive Lebanon’s official response to his proposal.
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2025-07-07 22:33
By Wesam Bahrani
Yemen strongly pounds Israel with missiles and drones
“Anyone who attacks Gaza and Yemen will not sleep”
TEHRAN – The Israeli occupation regime’s aggression against Yemen prompts a surprisingly widespread retaliation.
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2025-07-07 22:29
By Sahar Dadjoo
Exclusive: Jeffrey Sachs reveals real motives behind Israel’s raid on Iran
Professor Sachs says U.S.-Israel divide-and-conquer strategy fuels Middle East instability
TEHRAN - In the wake of the unprecedented joint military aggression by Israel and the United States against Iran, international observers have turned their attention to the deeper motivations behind the attack, its geopolitical implications, and the broader trajectory of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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2025-07-07 22:27
UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide
An 83-year-old retired priest has been arrested for defying a newly enforced ban on pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, just hours after the group was formally outlawed by the UK government, MEE reported.
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2025-07-07 22:27
BRICS calls Gaza 'inseparable' part of Palestine
The BRICS countries condemned the attacks on Iran, terrorism in Syria, and Israel's occupation of Syrian territory, and called Gaza an "inseparable" part of Palestine, Anadolu Agency reported.
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2025-07-07 22:26
China reacts to Trump's new BRICS tariff threat
China said BRICS does not seek confrontation and does not target any country after President Donald Trump threatened a new 10 percent tariff, Newsweek reported.
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2025-07-07 22:26
From Pamplona to Palestine: San Fermín launch honors Gaza
Spain’s most internationally renowned celebration, the San Fermín festival, began on Sunday with an unprecedented show of solidarity with Palestine.
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2025-07-07 17:10
‘No other explanation’: children of Gaza doctor killed in airstrike say he was deliberately targeted
Family of Dr Marwan al-Sultan says the Israeli airstrike ‘precisely’ hit the apartment block the cardiologist and his relatives occupied
The children of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza’s Indonesian hospital and one of the territory’s most senior doctors, said they believed their father was deliberately targeted in the Israeli airstrike that killed him on Wednesday.
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2025-07-07 15:54
Israeli forces arrest Al Mayadeen bureau chief in West Bank
Israeli occupation forces arrested Nasser al-Lahham, director of Al Mayadeen’s office in occupied Palestine, on Monday, during a pre-dawn raid on his home in Beit Lahm, southern West Bank.
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2025-07-06 22:27
By Sahar Dadjoo
Nizar Banat Award highlights struggle of Gaza medical workers
Physicians in Gaza fight on despite brutal attacks
TEHRAN- In the ongoing brutal and relentless war in Gaza, healthcare workers are experiencing multileveled unprecedented threats that go beyond the obvious threats of being in a war zone.
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2025-07-06 22:26
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Bin Farhan precedes Barrack to Beirut to stir up Sunnis in pressure campaign against Hezbollah
BEIRUT— Not to mention the progress of U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack’s proposal aimed at disarming Hezbollah, it goes without saying that in the coming weeks, Lebanon will be automatically affected by the Gaza negotiations and leaks about Syria’s intention to normalize relations with Israel.
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2025-07-06 22:24
By Wesam Bahrani
Hamas sends unified truce response
TEHRAN – Hamas has responded to a ceasefire proposal in a “positive” manner reflective of a unified stance among all Gaza resistance forces.
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2025-07-06 22:24
Dozens of Iranian-German citizens file complaint against Merz for backing Israeli war on Iran
Dozens of Iranian-German citizens have signed an online petition and filed a complaint with Germany’s Federal Court against Chancellor Friedrich Merz, following his statements regarding Israeli attacks on Iran, according to DW.
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2025-07-06 22:23
Hezbollah chief says won’t disarm until Israel leaves southern Lebanon
The Hezbollah chief says the Lebanese group remains open to peace, but it will not disarm or back down from confronting Israel until it ends its air raids and withdraws from southern Lebanon, according to Al Jazeera.
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2025-07-06 22:23
UK re-establishes relations with Syria after 14 years
The UK has fully re-established relations with Syria 14 years after severing ties with the former government of Bashar al-Assad, MEE reported.
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2025-07-06 22:23
Ansarallah leader: We are ‘obligated’ to confront US, Israeli crimes
Yemen’s Ansarallah leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi said on Sunday that Israel, the U.S. and their allies are considered a “serious threat for the Muslim ummah” who are trying to erase the religious identity of nations and belittle them through undermining their values and taking their resources.
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2025-07-06 22:22
UK court rejects Palestine Action's bid to pause govt ban as 'terrorist group'
The UK government will, for the first time, legally redefine a non-violent protest group, Palestine Action, as a "terrorist organization" after a last-minute legal challenge to suspend the group's ban under anti-terrorism laws failed at a high court.
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2025-07-06 22:22
Texas flood death toll hits 50 as search intensifies
Twenty-seven girls remained missing from a riverside summer camp in the US state of Texas on Sunday, almost two days after the area was hit by devastating floods, DW reported.
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2025-07-06 22:18
Retired Israeli general says Hamas fighters back to pre-war numbers
Israeli (reserve) Major-General Yitzhak Brik says Hamas has regained its pre-war strength, contradicting the Israeli army’s accounts of progress in Gaza, calling the reality on the ground “grim”.
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2025-07-06 15:10
By Shahrokh Saei
CIPCC 2025 finale: Showcasing China’s trailblazing leadership in global media partnerships
BEIJING – The China International Press Communication Center (CIPCC) concluded its first-half 2025 media exchange program with a grand closing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing on Saturday. The event was hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association (CPDA).
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2025-07-06 13:04
Yemen fires missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport
The Yemeni Armed Forces launched a hypersonic ballistic missile against Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday in retaliation for the Zionist regime’s brutal campaign in Gaza, Tasnim reported.