Spanish workers went on a general strike on Wednesday, setting up picket lines despite stormy weather in a mass protest against the country's housing affordability crisis a few weeks before a snap general election.
Tehran has designated Argentina's navy and air force as "terrorist organizations," Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, in a reciprocal move following Buenos Aires' designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity in April.
World leaders will set out their climate priorities in speeches at COP31 in Turkey on Wednesday, as negotiators seek agreement on a plan to increase the share of electricity in global energy use and revive stalled efforts to move away from fossil fuels.
Iraq barred a plane carrying Iran's national soccer team from landing at Basra airport on Tuesday, a decision by the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority linked to US sanctions imposed on Iranian airlines, two Basra airport officials said.
Iran's top security official Mohsen Rezaei said there are currently no negotiations taking place between Tehran and Washington, in an interview with pro-Iran broadcaster Al-Mayadeen.
European nations have taken no concrete steps to strengthen shipping protection in the Red Sea, Italy's defence minister said on Tuesday, adding that governments have failed to respond to his calls to bolster the bloc's naval mission in the area.
Israel's parliament was sworn in on Tuesday without a new government, after a deadlocked general election stripped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority but left his main rivals with no clear path to power.
Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton arrived in Egypt's El Arish on Tuesday to see first hand efforts to receive humanitarian and relief aid bound for the Gaza Strip.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday that the US would keep imposing "devastating" economic costs on Iran, saying it had options beyond war or agreeing to unacceptable Iranian demands, four G7 diplomats said.
The UN human rights office condemned Egypt this week for arresting the entire Matsaddash fact-checking newsroom (six journalists) on terrorism charges and ordering the closure of independent site Mada Masr.
On Monday, French MPs in committee approved a Socialist Party (PS) proposal to ban imports of goods from Israeli settlements and certain services linked to them.
Qatar's prime minister will meet European powers and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in an unscheduled stop at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris after holding talks on Monday with US President Donald Trump on the Iran conflict.
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