Twitter users have mocked authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after it emerged that winners of an initiative designed to foster gender equality in the workplace were won entirely by men.

The five-week partial US government shutdown, triggered by the battle over President Donald Trump's border wall, cost the US economy $11bn, according to the latest analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The Iranian foreign ministry deplored the life sentence verdicts handed down by Bahrain's highest court to three opposition leaders, including top cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, calling on Manama to recognize the civil rights of the country's people.

Bahrain’s main Shiite opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, condemned the Al Khalifa regime for upholding a life sentence against top Shiite cleric and opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, describing the move as political.

Leader of the National Wisdom Movement of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim, in a Monday meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Iraj Masjedi, condemned the US unilateral sanctions against Iran, and urged Washington to comply with international codes of conduct

The United Nations envoy for Yemen urged the warring parties to withdraw their troops from the port of Hudaydah quickly, and international aid agencies said that conditions for thousands of starving people were deteriorating fast.

The Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani has condemned the US administration failed coup attempt in Venezuela, saying that the attempt showed true face of the US and western governments’ calls for democracy and human rights.

Austrian Secretary General for Foreign Affairs Johannes Peterlik hailed Iran’s policy to stay in the JCPOA, hoping that it would benefit from the EU’s Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), IRNA reported.

Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said that Iran takes pride that it has been forerunner of fighting terrorism, adding that if it were not for the Syrian government and people and well as its allies’ sacrifices, today Daesh had succeeded in region, IRNA reported.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), during a meeting in Vienna on Monday, discussed cooperation between Tehran and the Agency within the framework of Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), IRNA reported.