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DUBAI: Washington should explain its links to the Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd sentenced to death in Iran, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday. Kanaani’s remarks came after a US envoy for Iran, Abram Paley, met on Friday with the family of Sharmahd, who was convicted of heading a pro-monarchist group accused of a deadly 2008 bombing.    

The soldiers aged between 73 and 85 will have to serve prison sentences ranging between eight and 25 years.

Russian defence ministry says three drones shot down over the Russian regions of Tula and Belgorod.

BEIRUT: The head of Lebanon’s powerful Shiite armed group Hezbollah warned on Monday evening against renewing on the same terms the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country’s south. The mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, which expires Thursday, was extended last year with a slight modification that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah criticized at the time as “a violation of Lebanese sovereignty.” He did so again on Monday.

The suspension plunged the centre-left politician's presidency into uncertainty even before it's officially begun.

The US has condemned the arrest of Claudia Gonzalez, a lawyer who worked with a UN-backed anti-corruption commission.

Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich said the money was prompting crime among Palestinian communities, triggering outrage.