UN Security Council Countries Express Alarm Over Risk of All-Out Middle East War
By Daphne Psaledakis and David Brunnstrom
July 31 (Reuters) - United Nations Security Council countries on Wednesday called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to avert a wider Middle East conflict after the killings of two militant leaders raised...
Khaled Meshaal, Who Survived Israeli Assassination Attempt, Tipped to Be New Hamas Leader
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
CAIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Khaled Meshaal, tipped to be the new Hamas leader, became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination attempt on...
Rapper Toomaj Salehi’s Detention Is Focus Of UK Legal Complaint
By Natasha Phillips
The arrest and charge of prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi by the Islamic Republic of Iran is the object of a complaint lodged on July 24 with the United Nations Working Group...
Haniyeh Assassination: Why Tehran Is Blaming A “Projectile From Abroad”
Kayhan-London Staff
July 31, 2024
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From sources inside Iran, as well as around the Arab world, the first elements are emerging of how the high-stakes mission to assassinate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran may have been successfully...
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh Killed in Iran, Hamas Says
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Parisa Hafezi
CAIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of the morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group said on Wednesday, drawing fears of wider escalation in...
US Says Middle East War Not Inevitable, Seeks to ‘Take Temperature Down’
By Karen Lema
SUBIC, Philippines, July 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not think a wider war in the Middle East was inevitable and that the United States was seeking...
GLOBAL MARKETS – Oil Prices Rise After Death of Hamas Leader in Iran
By Ankur Banerjee
SINGAPORE, July 31 (Reuters) - Asian stocks surged on Wednesday and the yen was volatile after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates in a hawkish pivot, while investors assessed contrasting results from Microsoft and chipmaker AMD that suggested a divide in...
Israeli Strike Targeted Head of Hezbollah Ops Room, Fate Unknown – 3 Security Sources...
BEIRUT, July 30 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday targeted the head of the armed group Hezbollah's operations room, three senior security sources told Reuters, saying that his fate...
US Issues Sanctions Targeting Iran’s Missile and Drone Program Facilitators
WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on five individuals and seven entities that the Treasury Department said were facilitators for Iran's missile and drones program.
The targeted individuals and entities - based...
Iranian President Sworn in With Chants of ‘Death to America, Israel’
DUBAI, July 30 (Reuters) - Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian was sworn in on Tuesday, after winning an election earlier this month by promising to improve ties with the world and ease restrictions on social freedoms at home.
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