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Italy's coastguard said on Sunday it had recovered two bodies and rescued 57 people off the southern island of Lampedusa, amid reports that more than 30 people were missing following two shipwrecks. The Ansa news agency, citing survivors' accounts, reported that two migrant boats that had set off from the port of Sfax, a hotspot for Tunisia's migration crisis, had sunk on Saturday on their way to Europe, Reuters said.

A passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 50, local broadcaster Geo reported. Around 10 cars of a passenger train derailed near a town in the southern province of Sindh, roughly 275 km (171 miles) from the country's largest city Karachi. Accidents on Pakistan's decaying rail system are common and successive governments have for years been trying to secure funds to upgrade the rail network as part of China's Belt and Road Ini...

A senior Iranian military commander says security of the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean has nothing to do with the United States.

Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu has visited the frontline headquarters of the "Center" army group involved in the Ukrainian conflict, Russian news agencies cited the defense ministry as saying on Friday. Shoigu was briefed by a group commander and thanked officers and troops for "conducting successful operations" near Lyman, Interfax reported.

Lawmakers have called on the Biden Administration to investigate four Shia mosques in the United States they believe are working on behalf of Irans Islamist government. In a July 28 letter shepherded to publication by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo.,

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Iranian-backed militias have prepared a runway in eastern Syria to support drone operations. These operations could include attacking and surveilling nearby US forces deployed to fight ISIS. The IRGC used its annual naval exercise to message to the

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched a military exercise on Abu Musa Island, one of three disputed islands claimed by the UAE. The IRGC Navy and the Basij militia took part in the war game on the deployment of combat forces. It included inaugurating new boats and launching cruise missiles and drones. The exercise aims to show “the power and combat defense readiness of the IRGC Navy in protecting the security of the Gulf ... and ... islands and it includes the use of “locall...

The number of politically motivated executions in Iran has seen a steep rise recently amid an intensification of retribution and intimidation against those perceived as critics of the regime, a U.S.-based rights group said on August 2.

Iranian state agents may have had a hand in leaking a senior official's gay sex tape, and revealing the extramarital and sometimes homosexual affairs of several regime officials. Could this be a deliberate, albeit obscure bid to disgrace the Islamic Republic itself?