President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been authorized by the Egyptian parliament to offer military assistance to Saudi Arabia in response to the escalating attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen.
Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, defeated by left-wing incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil.
Asserting that "there will not be an attack today," US President Donald Trump has ruled out taking immediate military action against Iran.
Iran says that Washington must now "take the necessary actions to extricate" itself from the "quagmire" that the US has entered as a result of its miscalculations in starting the conflict.
Over the past six months, US forces have assisted over 3,000 commercial vessels in crossing the Strait of Hormuz, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM).
On Sunday, Qatari mediators visited Tehran in an attempt to ease tensions in the area.
Israeli forces have raided Hebron, locked down the whole occupied West Bank, and killed at least eight Palestinians in Gaza.
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UN Security Council Meets to Discuss Iraq Situation
The deputy permanent representative of Iraq to the UN, Sarhad Sardar Abdulrahman Fatah, addresses the Security Council about the situation in Iraq on February 2,2023- UN Photo by Evan Schneider