Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, “without preconditions” to achieve “lasting peace” and “eliminate the root causes” of the three-year conflict, Al Jazeera reported.

The offer, delivered early on Sunday, came hours after the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, Poland and the United

Alongside the relentless toll of fatalities from continuous Israeli bombardment, a silent death is sweeping through Gaza’s elderly and children—largely unrecorded and undocumented, Euromedmonitor reported.

This is the result of deadly living conditions deliberately imposed by Israel to exhaust the population. At the forefront of these crimes are

Pope Leo XIV has called for genuine peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff, Al Jazeera reported.

“No more war,” Leo said on Sunday, adding, “the dramatic scenario of a third world war being fought piecemeal.”

“I too address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call

TEHRAN - In an analysis, Arman-e-Melli discussed the publication of images of a site in Iran by the spy services of the terrorist MEK group amid negotiations.

It wrote: According to certain foreign media outlets, these are images of a secret nuclear facility in Iran. All of these acts, which are in tune with the plots of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu