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US President Donald Trump said Iran has requested a meeting that will be held Tuesday in Qatar, despite Tehran denying any direct negotiations were planned with Washington on the deal aimed at ending the Middle East war

Iran`s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in his latest written message the Islamic republic did not want war with the United States and Israel, but would protect its rights as a nation, state television reported Thursday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed deep concern over the health of former Bangladesh Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, offering prayers for her recovery and reaffirming New Delhi`s readiness to extend support.

The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to Venezuela`s opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said

The Israeli military pressed operations around Gaza City on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump hosted a meeting on post-war plans for the shattered Palestinian territory

US President Donald Trump touched down at a military base in Alaska on Friday for a much-anticipated summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to press for an end to Moscow`s bloody war in Ukraine

Sixty-two Palestinians, most of them aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn on Saturday, hospital sources in the besieged enclave have told Al Jazeera.

More than 100 aid organisations warned on Wednesday that "mass starvation" was spreading in Gaza ahead of the US top envoy`s visit to Europe for talks on a possible ceasefire and an aid corridor

A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said Thursday as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 69 people on Thursday, including 15 in a strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war nearing its 22nd month.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said that Israeli forces killed at least 62 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

President Donald Trump dramatically stepped up his rhetoric against Iran`s supreme leader Tuesday, saying on social media that the United States knows where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is located but will not kill him "for now."