Cardinal George Pell, a former Vatican treasurer and an adviser to Pope Francis, was sentenced to six years in jail by an Australian court on Wednesday for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne.

The US Senate is set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would withdraw Washington's support for the Saudi Arabia-led military aggression on Yemen, in a direct rebuke of President Donald Trump as lawmakers push his administration to toughen its policy toward Riyadh.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the fight against terrorism is not over yet despite the collapse of the Daesh terror group in Iraq and Syria as the United States is now relocating the Takfiri terrorists from the Middle East to Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

It is unfortunate to hear that European Union ambassadors have decided to leave sanctions imposed on a number of Iranian individuals for alleged human rights abuses in place for another year.

Israeli settlers have sealed a mosque in the Old City of the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds, a month after a United Nations report revealed that violence and vandalism committed by Israelis against Palestinians and their property have increased since the beginning of this year.

A leading Arab newspaper stressed that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Baghdad which was declared three weeks ago is highly important and displays Iran's power to Washington and certain regional states.

The co-founder of Code Pink, a grassroots anti-war NGO based in the US, says she and a colleague who came under scrutiny by the FBI after returning from a visit to Iran.

The United Nations children's agency estimates that out of seven million school-aged children in Yemen over two million are not being educated amid a Saudi-led coalition’s war against the impoverished Arab state.