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Iranian president announces suspension of ties with IAEA

Date: 2025-07-02 08:44:46 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:11242266

TEHRAN, July 2 (MNA) - President Massoud Pezeshkian announced Wednesday suspension of Tehran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mehr News Agency reported. Earlier on June 25, Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) approved a ....

Grenade explodes outside Herzliya in central Israel

Date: 2025-07-02 07:37:21 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:11242129

GAZA CITY, July 2 (MENA) - Israeli forces say they are investigating after a grenade exploded in Herzliya northern Tel Aviv reportedly outside the home of a businesswoman with ties to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s family, The Israel Times ....

61 citizens martyred, dozens injured in intense shelling of areas in Gaza Strip

Date: 2025-07-02 07:25:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:11242181

Gaza, July 2 (MENA) - Sixty-one citizens were martyred and dozens injured in intense Israeli bombardment of several areas in the Gaza Strip since the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Palestinian News Agency WAFA reported that six citizens ....

Iraqi PM: We submitted complaint to UN Security Council against Israel for violating Iraqi airspace

Date: 2025-07-02 05:44:09 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:3 - ID:11242062

BAGHDAD, July 2 (MENA) - Prime Minister Mohamed al-Sudani said Wednesday Iraq is prepared to face consequences of recent war and played an important diplomatic role in clarifying effects of the war and importance of stopping it and resorting to ....

Trump says Israel has agreed to conditions to finalize 60-day Gaza ceasefire

Date: 2025-07-02 00:52:49 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:11242032

WASHINGTON, July 2 (MENA) – President Donald Trump said that Israel had “agreed to the necessary conditions” to finalize a ceasefire in Gaza, though it was not immediately clear whether Hamas would accept the terms, CNN reported. Two ....

Trump to seek truce between Israel, Hamas ‘next week’

Date: 2025-07-01 19:14:58 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:11241875

WASHINGTON, July 1 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will discuss the situation in Gaza when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House soon, adding that he hopes to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza ....

More than 10 Palestinians martyred by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid in southern Gaza

Date: 2025-07-01 17:38:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:11241667

GAZA CITY, July 1 (MENA) - More than 10 Palestinians were martyred and others injured when Israeli army gunfire targeted civilians waiting for humanitarian aid near the Shuhada Junction, or the central axis, which Israel calls the Netzarim axis, ....

Iran urges IPU to suspend Israel’s membership

Date: 2025-07-01 17:07:51 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:11241713

TEHRAN, July 1 (MENA) – The head of Iran’s delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) called on the global organization to condemn the Israeli military aggression against the Islamic Republic and suspend the Zionist regime’s membership, Mehr ....

UNRWA Chief: US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ brings only starvation and gunfire

Date: 2025-07-01 16:49:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:11241504

RAMALLAH/ NEW YORK, July 1 (MENA) – The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said on Tuesday that dozens of humanitarian organizations have called for an end to the ....

AL to host joint meeting with AU, OIC, UNRWA to discuss Gaza humanitarian situation on Wednesday

Date: 2025-07-01 14:52:54 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:11241308

CAIRO, July 1 (MENA) - The General Secretariat of the Arab League (AL) will host a high-level joint coordination meeting on Gaza on Wednesday at its headquarters in Cairo. The meeting brings together the Arab League, the African Union (AU), the ....