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Major General Mohsen Rezaei says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Washington explicitly agrees to and acts upon Iran's seven conditions.

Abraham Teklu Lemma, 53, of Maryland, a former information technology contractor at the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Justice pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit espionage on behalf of the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

UNICEF is deeply alarmed by reports that three children were killed and five others injured when an airstrike struck a school serving displaced children and families in Loikaw Township, Kayah State, Myanmar, on 31 October.

Hezbollah says it has no presence or affiliations whatsoever on the Syrian territory.

A Haitian gang leader wanted by the United States has asked the UN to mediate, as El Salvador sends more than 2,000 troops into the country to search for four of its soldiers who went missing after a gang ambush.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that nearly 125,000 refugees in Burundi risk losing life-saving food assistance from January 2027 unless additional funding is urgently secured. Most of the refugees have fled persistent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in search of food and safety.

Joint Base Andrews marked a historic milestone Nov. 2, with the arrival of the first HH-60W Jolly Green II, bringing a new generation of Air Force rotary-wing capabilities to the nation's capital for the first time in 60 years.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the strikes the United States carried out over the night against Iran were not war, but a minor attack.

The United States has no intention of escalating attacks on Iran following a strike on the Iranian island of Qeshm, The Wall Street Journal has reported, citing officials.

Iran has raised its military to its highest state of readiness amid the possibility of US strikes, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Tuesday.

The capture of several US MQM-170 drones in recent days exposes Washington's attempts to map Iran's air defenses and highlights Tehran's growing ability to thwart American surveillance through advanced electronic warfare.

The IRGC says its air defense forces have intercepted two US-made LUCAS drones over the southern Iranian city of Bandar Khamir in Hormozgan province.

The United States approved the draft agreement with Iran presented by Qatari mediators, the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al Arabi Al Jadeed reported, citing sources from the negotiating delegations.

US President Donald Trump has once again not ruled out that the United States could strike Pickaxe Mountain in Iran.

A senior Iranian diplomat said on November 3 that Tehran is not waiting for the results of the US midterm elections and would not adjust its foreign policy based on the outcome.

Pezeshkian condemns Western double standards, failed military aggression and economic pressure on Iran, while urging Muslim nations to unite against Israeli aggression.

A senior Iranian advisor says declining confidence in international institutions is pushing countries toward nuclear deterrence, citing a reported increase of around 130 warheads in military stockpiles.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has reaffirmed Tehran's commitment to peaceful engagement with the international community, stressing that the country will defend its rights and interests under international law and will not accept coercion or externally imposed demands.

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei dismissed the US response to Iran's demands as "unconvincing", saying that Washington must explicitly address and comply with "Iran's seven conditions."

An adviser to Iran's Leader, referring to the growing number of nuclear warheads by countries possessing nuclear weapons, stated that US brutality has driven the world toward nuclear deterrence.