The ongoing situation in Gaza Strip is very disturbing and a new war in the region will be catastrophic, the United Nations Secretary-General said on Tuesday.

Renowned Iranian actress Golab Adineh has been awarded as the best actress at the 27th China Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Foshan, South China's Guangdong province.

Bahrain gave jail terms, ranging from three to 10 years, to six more anti-regime activists a week after sentencing opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and two of his colleagues to life in prison.

The head of investigations at the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper has told Al Jazeera that Jamal Khashoggi's last words were "I'm suffocating ... Take this bag off my head, I'm claustrophobic", according to an audio recording from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Iran achieved MDG 5 [United Nations Millennium Development Goals] by being the 9th country with the lowest maternity death worldwide, the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in an exclusive interview with the Tehran Times.

The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights on Sunday said the United Nations and the Security Council are responsible for the Saudi crimes in Yemen, condemning continuation of attacks by the Riyadh-led coalition on al-Hudaydah Port.

The US and Saudi Arabia say they have agreed to end US refueling of Saudi aircraft bombing Yemen but several officials underlined that American training and military assistance will continue.

The Syrian government protested to the United Nations about an airstrike by the US-led coalition that killed 26 civilians in Hajin in the eastern Deir ez-Zor region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described his American counterpart's threat to starve Iranians as a “crime against humanity”, stressing that the Iranian nation will survive despite Washington’s sanctions.

Amnesty International has accused Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners of brazenly trying to “sportswash” their country’s “deeply tarnished image” by pouring money into the Premier League club.