Iran's judiciary said yesterday it hanged a man arrested in 2023 and convicted of being a spy for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, as fighting raged between the two foes.

Britain yesterday named Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, as the first female head of the Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6.

The remarks came hours after a dramatic Israeli attack on an Iranian state TV building that forced a presenter to flee mid-broadcast under a shower of dust and debris -- prompting a threat of retaliation against Israeli news channels by Tehran

Iranian parliamentarians are preparing a bill that could push Tehran toward exiting the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the foreign ministry said yesterday, while reiterating Tehran’s official stance against developing nuclear weapons.

Iranian air defences thwart attack on South Pars gas field, Iranian news website reports

US District Judge Allison Burroughs, at the end of a hearing in Boston in Harvard's legal challenge to the restrictions, extended to June 23 a temporary restraining order that had been set to expire on Thursday. She said she wanted to give herself more time to prepare a ruling

Russia yesterday said that the United States had cancelled a fresh round of talks on normalising the operations of their embassies.

The death toll in Vietnam from heavy rains and flooding caused by Typhoon Wutip has risen to seven, authorities said yesterday.

The United Nations said yesterday it was drastically scaling back its global humanitarian aid plans because of the “deepest funding cuts ever” -- leaving tens of millions of people facing dire straits.

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Iranian missiles struck Israel’s Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa before dawn yesterday, killing at least eight people and destroying homes, prompting Israel’s defence minister to warn that Tehran residents would “pay the price and soon”.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Iranian forces will "pummel" Israel until the attacks against the Islamic republic stop.."Our powerful Armed Forces are making clear to the world that the war criminals hiding in shelters in Tel Aviv will not go unpunished for their c

Israeli fire killed at least 40 people, half of them near an aid distribution site operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation yesterday, the territory’s health ministry said, as UN officials denounced Israeli-backed aid delivery methods.

A Democratic senator introduced legislation yesterday to prevent US President Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without Congress’s authorisation, as an escalating battle between Israel and Iran raised fears of broader conflict.

Extreme hunger is intensifying in 13 global hot spots, with Gaza, Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali at immediate risk of famine without urgent humanitarian intervention, a joint United Nations report warned yesterday.

Most of the world’s nuclear-armed states continued to modernise their arsenals last year, setting the stage for a new nuclear arms race, researchers warned yesterday.

As the Israeli-Iranian confrontation enters its fourth day, casualties on both sides are mounting. At least 220 people have been killed in Iran and at least 24 in Israel. Despite the deadly response from Iran, Israeli officials have continued to insist that attacks on various Iranian nuclear and military facilities were necessary.

US President Donald Trump directed federal authorities to ramp up deportation efforts in Democratic-led cities on Sunday, doubling down on a politicized anti-immigration drive after major protests in Los Angeles.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Monday that assassinating Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would "end the conflict" between the two arch-foes

Iran planning big missile attack, state media says