The Venezuelan army swore in 5,600 soldiers on Saturday, as the United States cranks up military pressure on the oil-producing country.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson confirmed that Iran and Lebanon maintain diplomatic relations and expressed Tehran's full readiness for dialogue with Lebanese officials on bilateral relations. He also announced upcoming presidential visits to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

Sweden will discontinue aid to Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Liberia and Bolivia, and redirect the funds to Ukraine, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa has announced.

US-based tech billionaire Elon Musk has called for the dissolution of the European Union after the bloc fined his social media platform X.

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has had a difficult discussion with US negotiators about Russia’s territorial demands, Axios has reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Iran’s first vice president reiterated that Tehran has never pursued non-peaceful applications of nuclear energy.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei announced that Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi will travel to Azerbaijan on Sunday for high-level talks with senior officials in Baku.

Khalil al-Hayya, the head of Hamas in Gaza, said the movement will only hand over its weapons once Israel’s occupation ends, adding that arms would then be transferred to a future Palestinian state authority governing Gaza.

The United States is studying the experience of using autonomous weapon systems during combat operations in Ukraine, War Secretary Pete Hegseth says.

Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, has warned against Israel’s continued hostilities in the Gaza Strip, stressing that only a full withdrawal of Israeli forces would constitute a full ceasefire under the US-brokered peace plan.

Public anger across Italy continues to swell as communities mobilize against, what protesters describe as, the normalization of Israeli aggression through “Zionist tourism.”

A damning investigation has revealed that the Ukrainian government under President Volodymyr Zelensky “systematically sabotaged” anti-corruption oversight across key state-owned companies, clearing the way for graft to proliferate during conflict with Russia.

The Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly stated that Iranian students have historically been the social leaders in the fight against dominators and autocrats, adding that the system of domination harbors historical animosity toward Iranian students for resisting its plunder.