🇵🇸🧑‍⚖️Palestine seeks new tribunal outside ICC to prosecute crimes against journalists

Ahmad Assaf, Director-General of Palestine's official media, announced a proposal to establish a special international tribunal - separate from the ICC - to prosecute crimes against journalists.

"Journalism is a sacred profession tied to truth, and those who attack journalists want to hide this truth," Assaf stated during the "Palestinian Media Under Fire" seminar in Tunisia.

"We call for creating this court to hold accountable all who commit crimes against journalists. And of course, this primarily concerns the Israeli occupation forces," he emphasized.

Assaf confirmed Palestine's participation in the upcoming Russia-Arab summit at President Putin's invitation, noting existing media cooperation with Sputnik and plans to strengthen ties with Russian media.

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🚨US NOT BACKING NEW RUSSIA SANCTIONS TO KEEP TALKS POSSIBLE

Washington is currently holding off on supporting calls for tougher sanctions against Moscow to avoid closing the door on potential peace negotiations, Senator Marco Rubio stated.

He warned that imposing new sanctions would essentially amount to the US admitting it can't negotiate with Russia.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱KEY UPDATES ON IRAN-ISRAEL CONFLICT

With the Iran-Israel сeasefire in effect, here’s what has transpired over the past 24 hours.

What do politicians say?

🇷🇺Russian envoy to the UN Vasily Nebenzya accused Israel and Western countries of spreading falsehoods about Iran’s nuclear program.

🇮🇷The aggression unleashed by Israel and the US against Iran has strengthened the Islamic Republic's resolve to continue developing its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stressed.

🇮🇱Israel violated all international norms and laws, as well as the principles of humanism, in Iran and Gaza, former Israeli MP Mohammad Hassan Kanaan told Sputnik.

☢️IAEA Director Mariano Grossi pointed out that the agency does not have information on “the whereabouts of Iran's enriched uranium.”

🇺🇸US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said that the White House is talking to Iran directly and through mediators to come up with a new deal.

How are other developments unfolding?

👉All three Iran's nuclear facilities targeted by the US strikes remained fully operational, CNN reported, citing an early US intelligence assessment.

👉Iran’s IRGC forces arrested six Israeli agents with a hidden weapons cache, which contained spike anti-tank missiles, micro-explosive drones and IEDs.

👉BRICS members voiced grave concern over attacks against Iran's peaceful nuclear programs and called for the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region.

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🇦🇲ARMENIA'S HOLY WAR: Top cleric detained amid alleged anti-government conspiracy

Armenia's National Security Service has arrested Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, a prominent opposition figure to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's government.

Official allegations:

⚠️Investigators claim Galstanyan's "Holy Struggle" movement (which led the 2024 anti-government protests) was planning terrorist acts and a coup

⚠️Comes after Pashinyan warned of opposition plots to overthrow the government - claims opposition leaders called ridiculous

The arrest has escalated tensions between Armenia's government and church leadership, following months of political unrest over Pashinyan's leadership.

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🇮🇷'IT HIT ME IN THE CHEST – I FELT THE HEAT': Tehran Civilian on Israeli bombing raid

🗣“I was working at home… I heard a plane flying low. Then a massive explosion. My legs shook. The second blast was so close — I felt the heat and was knocked down,” a woman living in Tehran recounts the horror as Israeli warplanes bombed the city days ago.

“There were two more blasts. Power went out. Sirens were everywhere. I survived, but I’m sure innocent lives ended that night,” she tells Sputnik

This wasn’t a battlefield. It was a neighborhood.

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🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUCIAL STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

⚡️ YALTA (DPR) LIBERATED

▫️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed an S-300PT air defense missile system launcher, a P-18 air target detection radar, and a Ukrainian Armed Forces command vehicle.

▫️Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,305 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone in the past 24 hours.

▫️Air defense superiority: seven JDAM guided bombs and 235 drones shot down

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🇦🇲🛥🇺🇸Kusturica slams Pashinyan: “Tied his boat to the US Sixth Fleet”

Legendary filmmaker Emir Kusturica accuses Armenia’s PM of targeting the Orthodox Church — “NATO’s main enemy.”

“It looks like he tied his boat to the US Sixth Fleet… but it is unknown whether the Sixth Fleet will be able to pull this boat without capsizing it.”

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🚨🇦🇲 Armenia detains opposition figures in sweeping raids—preliminary list revealed

✅ Key detainees:

🔶 Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan (already in custody)

🔶 David Galstyan – Nagorno-Karabakh MP

🔶 Migran Makhsudyan – Retired Colonel

🔶 Igor Sargsyan – ARFD Supreme Body member

🔶 Tigran Galstyan – Businessman

🔶 Ara Rostomyan – Activist & father of fallen Karabakh war hero

❗️ Security forces also raided the home of Ashot Danielyan, former Speaker of the Karabakh Parliament

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💬☢️LATEST UPDATES FROM KREMLIN ON IRAN-ISRAEL ESCALATION:

🟧 Iran's cooperation freeze with the UN nuclear watchdog comes in direct response to strikes on its facilities

🟧 Moscow expresses serious concern over Tehran's move, closely monitoring developments

🟧 IAEA's credibility severely damaged after unprecedented attacks on Iranian nuclear sites

🟧 No reliable intelligence currently exists on the actual status of Iran's nuclear program

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📹'TRUMP, HELP US!' – Ukrainians protest corruption in Kiev

Veterans, students and grieving families rallied on Maidan Square in the centre of the Ukrainian capital, blasting the Zelensky regime for corruption & demanding justice, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

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🚨🇦🇲Armenia arrests 14 in mass crackdown – 90+ raids conducted

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan faces detention as his lawyer confirms he refuses to testify and denies all the charges

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🚨🇦🇲 ARCHBISHOP CHARGED WITH TERRORISM IN ARMENIA

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan — a vocal political opponent of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan — has been charged with terrorism, inciting mass unrest, and attempting power usurpation, his lawyer says.​

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🤨Trump compares US strike on Iran to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

🔊At the NATO summit, former President Donald Trump drew a controversial parallel between US military strikes on Iran and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"That hit ended the war. I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki. But that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war," POTUS claimed.

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER MEETS CHINESE COUNTERPART AS TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH IN MIDDLE EAST

🤝 During the meeting with Dong Jun, Russia's Andrei Belousov hailed the “unprecedentedly high” level of bilateral ties

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to attend BRICS Summit in Brazil

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IAEA failed to protect Iran’s nuclear sites from US and Israeli attacks

🗣Iran suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) comes as Tehran realizes that there is simply no benefit on continuing it, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the University of Tehran, tells Sputnik.

While attacking nuclear sites, especially those under the IAEA supervision, is illegal under international law, that did not deter Israel and the US from attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities, Izadi points out.

❓Hence the question: why work with the IAEA at all?

“IAEA has a budget of $35 million, and $22 million out of that $35 million is spent inspecting Iran. So, by suspending the link, Iran is actually saving IAEA money,” Izadi remarks.

📍He also observes that the IAEA does not inspect Israel because it is not a member and is not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), hence raising the question whether Iran should withdraw from the NPT too.

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🇮🇷🇮🇱TRUMP: IRAN-ISRAEL CONFLICT IS OVER

“We call it the 12-Day War… just sounded like the right thing,” Trump said after the NATO Summit in The Hague.

“I think it is over. I do not think they are going to be going back at each other.”

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📹Aerial footage shows Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital destroyed by Israeli strikes

New images show the brutal toll of Israel’s war on Gaza — the Al-Shifa medical complex and surrounding neighborhoods lie in ruins.

Once a place of healing, now a scarred battlefield.

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🇦🇲All Armenians united in opposing Pashinyan's ‘traitorous actions’ - MP

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has ended up being opposed by virtually all the Armenians, head of the Alliance Party MP Tigran Urikhayan tells Sputnik.

👉Pashinyan’s “traitorous actions” are being rejected by the Armenian society, both within the country and in the diaspora, Urikhayan explains, noting that even people who are not politically savvy rallied against the current Armenian PM.

A “total mobilization” of all the Armenian people will be required to deal with the current crisis, he suggests.

Commenting on the recent arrest of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Urikhayan argues that Pashinyan cracks down on anyone capable of mobilizing people.

🗣“All active citizens, not just politicians but all participants of political process, including archbishops and other people who oppose the current government – all of them will be at risk of being incarcerated,” he remarks.

“They will be oppressed, stripped of rights and liberty, neutralized – all because the government itself is hanging by a threat.”

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🚨CEASEFIRE OR NOT — WW3 IS COMING: DUGIN DIGITAL EDITION

Nuclear deterrence has collapsed: if Israel and now the U.S. can strike atomic facilities with impunity, nothing is off-limits.

AI Dugin explains the Pandora’s box is open — and there's no going back.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷Israel’s war on Iran is a test of BRICS

These wars aren’t just about land — they’re about economic survival, Serbian and Yugoslav film director and musician Emir Kusturica tells Sputnik.

Israel’s strikes on Iran? It's a test of BRICS’ power, he believes.

🗣"Is it built on stone... or clay? If BRICS stands strong, the G7’s dominance crumbles. This is a battle for the future."

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