Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for the 22nd May, covering the latest developments you need to know.
As talks between Tehran and Washington, aimed at bringing about an end to the conflict between the two nations, continue, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has ordered that the country’s enriched uranium mustn’t be sent abroad. The directive marks a tightening of Tehran’s negotiating position.
Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus, has denied that the country will join Russia’s war with Ukraine, while stressing that Minsk and Moscow will jointly respond to any aggression. His comments follow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's warning that Belarus could be pulled into the conflict by Russia.
A memorial event was held at a school in Minab, southern Iran where 168 school children were killed during a missile strike on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. According to Reuters, an initial, internal, U.S. military investigation showed American forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike. U.S. military officials have publicly said the school was located on an active Iranian cruise missile base.
A French court has imposed the maximum €225,000 ($261,720) fine on Airbus and Air France for corporate manslaughter in relation to a 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash, in which 228 people were killed. The two companies said they would challenge the decision in France’s highest court. A civil aviation investigation previously attributed the crash to pilot error, but others have accused the manufacturer and airline of poor training.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered Iran's armed forces to respond to any threat immediately and without geographical li...
A tenth-grade student was critically injured after a man attacked her with a chainsaw inside a classroom in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur distri...
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The Middle East conflict remains tense as diplomatic efforts continue alongside renewed Houthi attacks. Iran says it remains open to mediation, while the Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the kingdom.
Evacuations and the provision of humanitarian aid in the Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky have begun, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. In a statement on Telegram, David Arakhamia said a six-day ceasefire was holding, and that more details would follow.
Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday as part of efforts to reach a deal between the U.S. and Iran, according to an official briefed on the talks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia remains willing to rebuild relations with European countries but warned that any wider conflict on the continent would leave no winners, as he commented on recent diplomatic contacts with Nordic leaders and growing security concerns in the Baltic region.
Hackers have pulled off a staggering $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist targeting Binance, shaking confidence in one of the world's biggest digital asset exchanges and sending crypto prices tumbling. U.S. analysts suspect North Korea was behind the attack.
A tenth-grade student was critically injured after a man attacked her with a chainsaw inside a classroom in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district. The girl suffered severe injuries to her head, neck and back, while a classmate who tried to protect her was also hurt.
Deep divisions over Russia's war in Ukraine overshadowed a G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta on Friday, as European officials criticised Moscow's participation and refused to join a traditional group photograph with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The U.S. has approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine in a deal worth an estimated $2.1 billion, but Kyiv could face years of delays before receiving the weapons it urgently needs to defend against intensifying Russian attacks.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global body responsible for monitoring money laundering and terrorist financing risks, has removed four countries from its so-called “grey list” after determining they had made sufficient progress in addressing weaknesses in their financial cr
The death toll from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 5,000, according to government figures released on Friday, as health authorities continue to struggle to contain the country's worst-ever Ebola epidemic.
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