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Jul 3, 2026 - World

Country’s leadership vows to never surrender as memorial on grand scale aims to relay message of resistance to worldIn the small hours of Friday the police roadblocks, stalls, posters and army vans were starting to appear across Tehran, as millions of Iranians prepared to attend the long-delayed six-day funeral ceremony for Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 turbulent years.Khamenei was killed aged 86 in the opening salvo of the US-Israeli attack on the country in February, and the final farewell ceremony is intended to be an epic display of personal mourning, national power, resilience and social cohesion. By Thursday, knots of mourners carrying flags and blankets were already gathering along roads festooned with banners showing the red fist, the symbol of the funeral, alongside the slogan: “We must rise.” Many were heading to special hostels being set up across Tehran for the pilgrims. In Revolution Square a giant statue of a clenched fist was being installed. Continue reading...

Jul 3, 2026 - World

Two Romanian men have been sentenced to prison for stabbing a journalist from a Persian-language TV station

Jul 3, 2026 - World

A speeding, overcrowded bus has plunged into a ravine in southwestern Pakistan, killing 40 people and injuring eight others

Jul 3, 2026 - World

A Tibetan died late Thursday after setting himself on fire outside the U.N. Headquarters in New York in a dramatic act of protest against a new Chinese law stressing ethnic unity.

Jul 3, 2026 - World

The Israeli military announced Friday that it struck 10 Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon in retaliation for an earlier attack on troops, further weakening an already fragile ceasefire and potentially threatening the success of peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.