The chief of the Belarusian counterintelligence agency has dismissed claims by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky that Kiev knows the location of Russia’s Oreshnik missiles deployed in Belarus.

The US ban on imports of new foreign drones discriminates against Chinese companies and should be lifted, Beijing has said. Shenzhen-based UAV manufacturer DJI, the largest in the world, currently sells more than half of all commercial drones operated in the US.

Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York has criticized Washington’s contradictory approach to diplomacy, stating that the U.S. cannot speak of negotiations while issuing ultimatums and demanding "zero enrichment."

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has slammed recent remarks by the U.S. representative at the UN Security Council regarding talks with Tehran, stating that Washington's approach is "dictation," not a "meaningful negotiation."

The IRGC Navy has seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

Iran's Army Chief Major General Amir Hatami has said that Iranian women played an influential and undeniable role during the eight years of the Sacred Defense and also the recent 12-day Israeli imposed war against Iran.

A fake video purporting to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting suicide in his prison cell has made it into the latest batch of records on the convicted sex offender released by the US Department of Justice.

Top Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev has briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on his latest diplomatic engagement with his American counterparts, but Moscow has chosen not to disclose the specifics, in line with its usual policy, according to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has unveiled a 20-point draft peace framework which he claims Kiev has been discussing with the US, presenting the document as a proposed basis for ending the conflict with Russia.

The Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) stated that until the IAEA clarifies the status of military attacks on a nuclear industry under its supervision, Tehran will not accept or respond to "irrelevant political pressure" to re-inspect bombed facilities, which he described as an attempt to "complete the enemy's operation."