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The head of a newspaper in Tehran has been summoned to appear in court following the publication of a poll on the "Hijab and Chastity" bill currently being debated by lawmakers, Mizan, the news agency of Iran's judiciary, said.

After engaging in energetic diplomacy with the US over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, SA is again walking a tightrope, this time on the Middle East crisis.

Iran's Guardians Council has returned a chastity and hijab bill to parliament due to "ambiguities" in the legislation, which has drawn criticism both inside the country and abroad.

The U.S.-based rights group United For Iran has rejected allegations by Tehran that it has collaborated with detained Iranian journalists Elahah Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, calling the accusations “part of the Islamic republic's long-standing tradition of crafting false narratives.”

Six months into the civil conflict in Sudan, conditions have deteriorated to a degree where over half the population is in dire need of help. The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has deeply fractured the country on almost every level. Over 6 million people have been forced from their homes, the majority displaced internally and others having fled the country altogether.

In this online event, Crisis Group experts will discuss the latest developments in Israel and Gaza.

The head of Iran's Budget and Planning Organization says the government achieved only "around" 70 percent of its projected revenues for the first seven months of the current Persian calendar year, a rare admission of a significant state budget deficit.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the UN Security Council on October 24 that Washington does not seek conflict with Iran but warned that the United States would act swiftly and decisively if Iran or its proxies attack U.S. personnel anywhere.

The family and doctors of Armita Garavand, an Iranian high school student who is in a coma after reportedly being assaulted by the morality police for not wearing the mandatory hijab, have rejected media reports that her condition has deteriorated and the 16-year-old is "likely brain dead."

Gabon military leaders claimed that electoral malpractice was one of the reasons for the coup, but another surely must be the growing frustration of the general public with a ruling elite who live in luxury while life for average Gabonese, despite its oil riches, remains a struggle.