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Iran ready for prisoner swap talks with US, citing Covid-19 threat as impetus
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Hezbollah slams German ban as ‘submission to America’s will’
The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Monday condemned Germany's ban on his group as bowing to US pressure and insisted it was not active in the country.
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Biden says if elected president he would keep US embassy in Jerusalem, not move it back to Tel Aviv
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem if elected -- even though he disagrees with Donald Trump's controversial 2017 decision to move it out of Tel Aviv.
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Iran summons Swiss ambassador amid warnings it will destroy US warships
Iran has summoned the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, who represents US interests in the country, over recent Gulf tensions, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Thursday, according to the IRIB news agency.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards ‘successfully launch military satellite’
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) claims it has successfully launched a military satellite into orbit for the first time.
Trump instructs US Navy to shoot down and destroy all Iranian gunboats if they 'harass our ships at sea'
President Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboats, should they harass American vessels at sea. His declaration comes after a confrontation in the Persian Gulf.
Robert Levinson: US hostage has died in Iran, says family
Former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran 13 years ago, has died in custody there, according to statement from his family.
US must lift sanctions if they truly want to help Iran fight against coronavirus pandemic — Rouhani
Washington’s offers to help Tehran against the deadly Covid-19 disease are disingenuous, because it is the US sanctions that undermine people’s access to medical care, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said.
Virus horror: Death every 10 minutes
Coronavirus is killing one person every 10 minutes in Iran, with the death toll climbing to more than 1200.
Iran State TV Warns ‘Millions’ In Country Could Die From Coronavirus
Roughly nine out of 10 of the over 18,000 cases of the new virus confirmed across the Middle East come from Iran.
Coronavirus Iranian deaths at 853, Ayatollah Bathaei-Golpaygani dies
The country's death toll from Covid-19 has now reached 853 in total, with 129 new deaths in the past 24 hours, a health ministry official tweeted on Monday.
Netanyahu's political future uncertain after challenger Gantz chosen to form new Israeli government
Gantz has a month to cobble together a governing coalition as country deals with COVID-19
Iraq base attack: US in retaliatory strikes on Iran-backed fighters
The US has launched retaliatory air strikes against a pro-Iranian militia group in Iraq after a rocket attack killed two of its soldiers.
US carries out retaliatory air strikes in Iraq against Iran-backed groups
The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a 26-year-old British soldier.
Coronavirus: Why experts say Iran could be lying about its COVID-19 outbreak
The coronavirus outbreak in Iran is spreading rapidly, with more than 8000 people infected. And now a “fake cure” has killed dozens.
Saudi Arabia detains three senior members of royal familyi
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, including the king's brother, have been arrested for unexplained reasons, US media report.
Acute crisis in Syria's Idlib demanded our direct talks, Putin says as he meets Erdogan in Moscow
Dozens of Turkish troops died in a Syrian airstrike as no one knew they were there, Putin told Erdogan, stressing the crisis in the Syrian province is so dire that a personal conversation between the two leaders is needed.
Afghan conflict: US conducts first air strike on Taliban since deal
The US military has conducted an air strike against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, just hours after President Donald Trump said he had had a "very good talk" with a leader of the group.
Afghanistan says Taliban have resumed deadly attacks after signing deal with U.S.
6 civilians among the dead in 33 attacks in the past day, Afghan's interior ministry says
US starts pulling out troops as peace deal with Taliban is signed
The US has begun withdrawing troops from Afghanistan after signing a peace deal with the Taliban, America’s enemy in its longest-ever war.
