BBC — Pro-Palestine demonstrators at Columbia University have occupied an academic building as part of their protest over the war in Gaza. Read more »

VOA — Iran’s foreign minister said the crew members of a seized Portuguese-flagged ship linked to Israel have been granted consular access and are expected to be freed, Iranian media reported Saturday.... Read more »

VOA — The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned reports from Iran of increasingly strict enforcement of the state’s strict mandatory hijab laws for women... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian drones, including their use by Russia in the war in Ukraine, as Washington seeks to ratchet... Read more »

VOA — COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — The U.S. ramped up its sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, designating four people and two companies it says were “involved in malicious cyber activity” on behalf of the... Read more »

DWW — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's trip to Pakistan has gained significance against the backdrop of heightened tensions in the Middle East, as Iran and Israel continue to exchange blows. Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — After years of high-level US pressure on its ally to show restraint, Israel’s purported attack on Iran takes the region and Western-led diplomacy into uncharted territory. Iran and... Read more »

BBC — The latest round in the region’s most dangerous rivalry appears to be over, for now. Israel still has not officially acknowledged that the attack in Iran in the early hours... Read more »