FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafström called Saturday's meeting with the Iranian Football Federation in Istanbul "very constructive." He said he couldn't wait to welcome the Islamic Republic of Iran to the World Cup.
Mohammad Baqer Qualibaf, speaker of Iran's parliament and the country's lead negotiator in talks with the United States, has been appointed Tehran's special envoy for Chinese affairs, Iranian media reported Sunday.
At least four people were killed in a major Ukrainian drone attack on Russian regions, including Moscow, which faced its largest assault in more than a year.
Venezuelan official Alex Saab, a Colombian-Venezuelan businessman and ally of former President Nicolas Maduro, was deported to the United States, Venezuela's migration agency, SAIME, said on Saturday.
Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time on Saturday in a final overshadowed by five countries' boycott over Gaza, claiming a dramatic victory despite another big public vote for Israel that again secured it second place.
Hundreds of Tunisians protested in the capital Tunis on Saturday against President Kais Saied, accusing him of undermining freedoms and presiding over a worsening economic and social crisis.
An Iraqi national accused of involvement in multiple attacks against U.S. interests in Europe has been arrested and brought to the U.S. to face six terrorism-related counts, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics on Saturday proposed opposition lawmaker Andris Kulbergs as the next prime minister after Evika Silina resigned.
The United Arab Emirates' decision to leave OPEC was a sovereign choice driven by production strategy, not politics, UAE Energy Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei insisted Saturday in a post on X.
Greece on Friday asked the European Union to step in and stop what it said was unlawful fishing and violation of maritime law by Turkish fishermen in the Aegean Sea in the eastern Mediterranean.
A French judge has been appointed to lead an inquiry over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the country's national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) said on Saturday, after a court ruled the case admissible.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam delivered his sharpest rebuke yet of Hezbollah on Friday, urging the Iran-backed group to abandon what he called "absurd adventures in service of foreign interests" and stop dressing up "deaths, destruction and displacement" as victories.
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