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The United States has blocked a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that would have established humanitarian pauses in the ongoing Israeli war on the blockaded Palestinian Gaza Strip.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has asked his regional counterparts to take more action to end the escalating situation in the small Palestinian territory of Gaza.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to impose political and economic sanctions on Israel and set up a tribunal to prosecute Israeli leaders for their war crimes in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime is only accelerating its demise by killing innocent Palestinian women and children in besieged Gaza.

Protests erupted Wednesday throughout the Middle East against Israel and its key ally, the United States, after an explosion killed hundreds of Palestinians at a Gaza hospital in the single deadliest incident of the Israel-Hamas war.

China and Russia have issued condemnations of a bombing that targeted a crowded hospital in the small blockaded Palestinian territory of Gaza, with Moscow challenging the Israeli regime to provide facts to prove its claims it was not involved in the attack.

Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been notably quiet on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza — in sharp contrast to the fervent, daily anti-Israel comments from neighboring Iran.

The United States is deeply concerned by credible reports that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has intensified its shelling in and around Nyala, South Darfur and Karari, Omdurman, deepening the suffering of the Sudanese people.

Venezuela's government and the US-backed opposition forces have formally agreed to work together on terms for the 2024 presidential election, paving the way for possible relief from cruel economic sanctions imposed by Washington against the nation led by President Nicolas Maduro.

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Officials in southern Ukraine said a Russian missile hit a residential area late Wednesday, killing at least two people.

The top officer overseeing the nation's newest military service is tapping into the talents and drive among ranks to define the Space Force ethos and ensure its success for years to come.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced that the Islamic Republic, as of October 18, will no longer be subject to any restriction with regard to its ballistic missile-related activities and transfers by the United Nations Security Council.

The United States is leveling new sanctions against entities and individuals involved in Iran's missile, unmanned aerial vehicle and conventional arms industries.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has opened a forum of international delegates to the Belt and Road forum in Beijing, rejecting "economic coercion" and "bloc confrontation" in a dig at the West.

The latest U.S. expansion of export controls on advanced chips, including those for artificial intelligence, as well as chipmaking tools will make it difficult for China to develop in that sector, analysts say.

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The President spoke at the opening of the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.