In reaction to the special rapporteur’s recent interviews on the situation of human rights in Iran, the High Council for Human Rights has issued a statement on the false and unreal claims made by Javid Rahman.

The deputy of the High Council for Human Rights on international affairs stressed the need to divorce human right topics from political objectives in UNHRC.

Hezbollah’s second-in-command Sheikh Naim Qassem condemned a recent move by the British government to list the Lebanese movement as a terror group, saying that London, itself, is a sponsor of terrorism.

An Australian state prosecutor has sent letters threatening to charge media organisations and dozens of journalists with breaching a gag order that banned reporting on Cardinal George Pell's convictions on child sexual abuse, lawyers said.

Bangladesh has told the United Nations Security Council it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled across the border amid a brutal military crackdown.

A senior Iranian lawmaker lashed out at the western countries for trying to impose their monetary restrictions, including the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations, on Iran.

Members of an anti-war NGO based in the US, Code Pink, denounced Washington for abandoning the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal, asserting that strong Saudi and Israeli lobbies were behind the White House withdrawal from the agreement.

A day after UN investigators issued a report indicating that Israeli forces were committing war crimes in their violent repression of protests in Gaza, Palestinians once again demonstrated in the besieged coastal enclave on Friday as part of the Great March of Return.

Iran women’s under-19 football defeated Belarus 1-0 in the Kuban Spring international tournament underway in Sochi, Russia.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen underlined Syria’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, rejecting a US congressional motion to recognize Israel's annexation of the occupied territory.