Iran security chief says Tehran's demands include an end to war on all fronts and the lifting of US's naval blockade.
Iran’s top security official Mohsen Rezaei has told Al Jazeera that Tehran has conveyed its conditions for ending the war to the White House through Qatari mediators.
He says the demands include an end to the war on all fronts, the release of frozen Iranian assets and the lifting of the US naval blockade on Iranian ports.
Ed Sheeran opened a solo concert in Philadelphia on Saturday with comments about Gaza, saying what is happening is “catastrophic and unjustifiable”. “My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians’ lives, of children’s lives,” Sheeran said in the night at Lincoln Financial Field. Sheeran also said he wants his music and shows to be about unity and humanity, not politics. He then addressed the controversy that unfolded since his supporting acts withdrew in solidarity..
MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. The turnout in the ongoing Russian parliamentary election stands at 44.63% as of 4:00 a.m. Moscow time on Sunday (1:00 a.m. GMT). The information was posted on the Russian Central Election Commission’s website. MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. The turnout in the ongoing Russian parliamentary election stands at 44.63% as of 4:00 a.m…
MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. Dozens of drones have been taken down while approaching Moscow in less than an hour, the Russian capital’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote on his channel on the Max messenger. "The Defense Ministry’s air defense forces repelled an attack by 14 Moscow-bound drones," he wrote at around 3:20 a.m. Moscow time (12:20 a.m. GMT). "First re…
MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. The armed forces of Ukraine are plotting special operations aimed at disrupting the ongoing parliamentary vote in Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said. "The strikes are getting intensified. There are specially prepared operations targeting the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk [DPR…
Hong Kong is bidding farewell to its first post-colonial chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, on Sunday at a state funeral – only the third time a Hongkonger has received such an honour since the 1997 handover. Tung, who died at the age of 89 on September 8, led Hong Kong through a series of ups and downs, including the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2003 Sars outbreak and the V-shaped economic recovery that followed. Sunday’s funeral follows a vigil held the previous day at the Hong Kong Funeral..
BUDAPEST, September 20. /TASS/. An unidentified man doused Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar with wine to express his personal animosity and disagreement with his policies, but the premier joked about the incident, expressing regret that a good drink had gone to waste. Magyar posted the video of the incident on Facebook (a social media site banned in Rus…