A senior Iranian diplomat says ethnic cleansing across the occupied Palestinian territories has turned into a permanent and deliberate policy of the occupying Israeli regime.

Talks between US and Russian diplomats begin in Geneva on Monday after a weekslong stand-off over Russian troop deployments near its border with Ukraine, with veteran envoys on each side trying to avert a crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says it is the special responsibility of Moscow and Washington to ensure global strategic stability as the world's nuclear powers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, sat down to have two rounds of meetings in a Geneva summit.

Putin and Biden will meet in Geneva within hours with wide disagreements likely and expectations low for any breakthroughs.

Iran welcomes election of a new Libya interim government, hoping it will create conditions for national elections later this year in the conflict-ridden country.

The country descended into unprecedented chaos last year after the ‘Libyan National Army’ under rebel commander Khalifa Haftar marched on Tripoli.

The word was sent in a letter to Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The United Nations (UN)’s acting Libya envoy expresses optimism that ongoing peace negotiations between the Libyan warring sides would end in a lasting ceasefire.

The Geneva Council for Rights and Liberties (GCRL) strongly denounces the continued detention and prosecution of Palestinian and Jordanian figures in Saudi Arabia