Sens. Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his longtime confidant Roger Stone — the first elected Republicans to denounce the president’s Friday night move.

Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi dismissed any interest in having relations with Washington, saying that his country has never trusted the US and Europe and makes decisions based on its own national interests.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Baharvand said on Sunday that Washington had begged Iran to refrain from carrying out any retaliatory attack against the US interests immediately after assassination of former IRGC Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

Groups representing the nation’s doctors, teachers and top school officials on Friday pushed back against pressure from President Donald Trump to fully reopen US schools despite a surge in coronavirus cases, saying science must guide the decisions.

Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Brighton in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Amir Hossein Qazizadeh said that the global arrogance uses human rights and international organizations to pursue its own objectives, and reiterated that the Iranian nation will make its utmost efforts to preserve its religious and cultural identity.

Iran has warned it will take "effective measures" if European countries cave in to the US pressure aimed at extending an arms embargo on the Islamic Republic that is legally bound to expire under an international 2015 nuclear agreement.

A massive protest erupted in the Israeli capital on Saturday, as citizens are dissatisfied with the government who they say has failed to address the economic challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Belgian capital of Brussels has been the scene of widespread protests over the past week as demonstrators voiced their indignation about a constitutional decision to allow the banning of headscarves in the country’s universities.

A senior Yemeni official warned the Riyadh-led coalition not to attack the oil facilities in Ma’arib province or wait for extensive offensives against different targets in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel.