The 2024 Olympic Games kick off in Paris as the sports world reels from losing hundreds of potential Palestinian Olympians to the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.

Britain’s new government says it will drop its predecessor’s challenge to arrest warrants sought by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor for the Zionist entity’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Downing Street announced on Friday.

President Emmanuel Macron demands an “immediate ceasefire” in war-torn Gaza in a meeting with Israeli president Isaac Herzog in Paris.

The Israeli regime targets southern Lebanon with white phosphorous bombs, which are known for their incendiary and long-term environmental effects.

The UN agency for Palestinians says nine out of every 10 people in the besieged Gaza Strip have been “forcibly displaced” during the Israeli onslaught on Gaza.

The family of Lebanon’s prominent Shia cleric Imam Musa al-Sadr, who went missing in Libya with two companions more than four decades ago, has called on Russia to impose pressure on authorities in the North African country to determine the fate of the distinguished Islamic figure.

Iran hails a China-brokered accord that seeks reconciliation between Palestinian factions to form a national unity government as a valuable step on the path towards national consensus.