Middle East

Comments come hours after six Shiites were shot dead in Beirut in an attack on supporters of Hezbollah and an allied Lebanese party.

Nidal al-Atari was in possession of sensitive material on land transactions in Judea and Samaria at time of kidnapping by Palestinian security officials, investigation finds.

Israel Prison Service says it is unaware of any mass hunger strike, denies prisoners' claims they have been separated and put into designated cells.

"We will be prepared to adjust to a different reality in which we have to deal with all options to address Iran's nuclear program if it's not prepared to come back into the constraints," US Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley says.

"The new Iranian administration of President (Ebrahim) Raisi raises doubts about its intention to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre told reporters in a daily online briefing

"There is a segment in the community that deals with the issue as shameful, and they deal with breast removal and the word breast as if it was obscene or shameful," says campaign leader Georgette Harb.

The massive, two-day exercise dubbed "Velayat" includes the Iranian army and Revolutionary Guard forces, elite air force and air defense units, and the IRGC's airspace division.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says the government should make power shortages a priority, adding the total blackout that occurred on Saturday when Lebanon's two largest power plants ground to a halt was like a "clinical death" for the country.

Noting Tehran has warned its neighbors against "presence of hostile entities on our borders," head of Iran's Border Guards insists "Israeli espionage activity in Azerbaijan is under our complete control."

Many have lost faith in the democratic system brought to Iraq by the US-led invasion of 2003. The Shiite Islamist-dominated ruling elite is expected to sweep the vote.