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Iran's judiciary confirmed the death sentence of well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi but added that he is entitled to a sentence reduction, state media reported on Thursday.

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné is set to visit the Middle East starting Saturday, with discussions planned on the ongoing instability in southern Lebanon and the situation in Gaza.

Germany is waging a charm offensive inside the Republican Party. Japan is lining up its own Trump whisperer. Mexican government officials are talking to Camp Trump. And Australia is busy making laws to help Trump-proof its U.S. defense ties.

U.S. Gaza aid envoy David Satterfield is set to step down shortly and will be replaced by former senior United Nations official Lise Grande, two sources familiar with the issue told Reuters on Wednesday.

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday said he will suspend public duties until next week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a preliminary probe of his wife.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz commented on the Argentine Foreign Ministry's call to arrest Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, claiming that he was responsible for the attack on the Jewish community building in 1994.

Turkey on Wednesday accused the United States of having a policy of double standards on human rights, saying Washington's annual rights report failed to reflect Israel's assaults in Gaza.

Turkey's justice minister warned the country's main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Wednesday that it would face the risk of legal action, and even a closure case like its predecessor, if it did not distance itself from Kurdish militants.

Columbia University students agreed to take down "a significant number" of the dozens of tents set up on the school's main campus as part of a protest against Israel's incursion into Gaza, the New York school said on Wednesday.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier embarked on an official visit to Turkey on Wednesday, where he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. 

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to a hospital in Jeddah for a routine check up for a few hours, state television reported on Wednesday.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday that half of the commanders of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group have been killed and the rest were in hiding.