A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reported yesterday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday signalled that he intended to bring the date of Turkey’s most consequential general election in generations forward by one month to May 14.

Egyptian authorities have announced the discovery of an ancient tomb in Luxor dating back around 3,500 years that archaeologists believe holds the remains of an 18th dynasty royal.

The Palestinian foreign ministry yesterday condemned as an “execution” the killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli forces at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.

Iran yesterday said it executed a British-Iranian dual national after he was sentenced to death for spying for the United Kingdom, drawing strong condemnation from Britain and international rights groups.

Two Palestinians were killed yesterday during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Iran on Saturday executed an Iranian-British dual national accused of spying for UK intelligence, the judiciary reported.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian expressed hope that diplomatic ties between Tehran and Riyadh could be restored through dialogue between the two regional arch-rivals, as he visited Lebanon yesterday.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as the army claimed rocks were thrown at Israeli forces during a raid.

The head of the United Arab Emirates’ national oil company was named yesterday as president of this year’s COP28 climate talks, prompting fierce criticism from environmental activists.

Palestinian man was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday during overnight Israeli raids in Qalandia refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

The US Navy said yesterday it had seized more than 2,000 assault rifles smuggled on a fishing boat along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen.

Iran has sentenced another man to death in connection with the protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary said Tuesday.

Iran has sentenced to death three more people accused of killing members of the security forces during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death, the judiciary said yesterday. The Islamic republic has been rocked by civil unrest since September 16 death in custody of Amini, 22, following her arrest for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women. The latest sentences bring to 17 the total number of people condemned to death in connection with four months of protests.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday described a raft of Israeli measures as a “new war” against the Palestinian Authority aimed at pushing it “to the brink”.

Iran has sentenced to death three people accused of killing three members of the security forces during the protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary said Monday.

An Iranian man has been arrested in western Germany suspected of preparing an “Islamist attack” using cyanide and ricin, police and prosecutors said yesterday.

A boat with 185 Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Indonesia’s Aceh province yesterday, a local disaster agency official said, following hundreds who arrived late last year fleeing desperate conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Iran’s judiciary yesterday announced jail terms of up to 10 years for people who called for strikes as part of a months-long protest movement.

Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran protesting against cartoons of the Islamic republic's supreme leader by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.