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Iran’s assumption of the chair of a United Nations human rights social forum on Thursday has drawn significant criticism, primarily due to Tehran’s extensive history of human rights violations and terrorism. In a troubling trend, Iran has experienced a sharp increase in executions, with at least 419 individuals executed in the first seven months of the year, marking a 30 percent rise compared to the same period in 2022, as revealed in a new report published by the United Nations.

For the first time since talks held with the Obama administration, China will next week hold “consultations” on nuclear arms control and non-proliferation, Reuters reports. China made the announcement Monday after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Washington, Reuters reports. The talks are understood to be taking place in the coming days.

China sent 43 warplanes and seven naval vessels near the island of Taiwan in a 24-hour period, the Tawainese Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The United States is preparing for massive Iranian cyberattacks in retaliation for supporting Israel in its war against Hamas, several sources say.

In a move that has outraged rights activists, the Islamic Republic of Iran is set to become the new chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday, Ynet News reports.

Kyiv said Wednesday that several people died in Russian attacks in eastern and southern Ukraine amid concerns about a new drone being used by Moscow. It follows a night when more than a dozen Russian drones and a missile targeted military and critical infrastructure.

A second McDonald’s restaurant in Birmingham was hit with a rodent infestation Tuesday, just one day after dozens of rats were let loose in another outlet over the chain’s “support for Israel,” footage showed.

Israel is reassessing its diplomatic relations with Turkey after its Islamist president called the Jewish nation “a war criminal of the world.”

Yemen’s Houthi militia effectively declared war on Israel on Tuesday after firing a missile and drones at the Jewish nation, raising the risks of a regional armed conflict that experts fear could overwhelm Israeli defenses.

The United States has compared attacks on Jewish people in Russia’s predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan to “pogroms” of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The UK’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday denounced the recent “pro-Palestine” mass protests in Britain as “hate marches,” Sky News reports. Ms Braverman made her remarks after five people were charged with inciting racial hatred against Jewish people at a protest in central London this past weekend.

Chinese generals took aim at the U.S. military on Monday with blunt warnings that foreign forces in a war to take Taiwan will be crushed, but they also held out the prospect of ending a lengthy boycott on direct military-to-military talks with the Pentagon.

“Jews not allowed,” read the sign in English and Turkish above Rağman Şahaf, a used book store next to Istanbul University and not far from the city’s famed Grand Bazaar.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned the Russian ambassador in a rebuke of Moscow’s refusal to unequivocally condemn Hamas and for Russia’s hosting of Hamas officials last week, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Amid the worldwide pro-Palestine protests that have followed Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, hundreds of Islamist rioters stormed Makhachkala airport in Dagestan in Russia’s North Caucasus Sunday, looking for Jews whom they heard had arrived on a flight from Israel, DW reports.

The U.S. military conducted airstrikes on two facilities in eastern Syria on Thursday in response to ongoing attacks against American military personnel in Iraq and Syria over the past week, according to the Department of Defense.

A third round of Ukrainian-backed peace talks opened in Malta, but without Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February last year. The deliberations came amid a staggering death toll, with overnight Russian and Ukrainian attacks continuing and tensions over new European Union sanctions against Russia.

Tens of thousands of people marched in an anti-Israel protest through London despite warnings by the government that spreading hatred and support of “terror organizations” such as Hamas won’t be tolerated.

coal mine fire in Kazakhstan killed at least 32 people while another 14 remain missing, prompting the government to quickly nationalize the ArcelorMittal Temirtau, which operates the country’s largest steel plants and several coal and ore mines, officials said.

The United States on Friday expanded its effort to cut off funding for Hamas by targeting Iran and others linked to the group after its terror attacks on October 7 killed more than 1,400 people in Israel.