Myanmar's army may be committing serious human rights violations under cover of a mobile phone blackout in parts of Rakhine and Chin states in the west of the country, Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on Myanmar, said on Monday.

The head of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Gabriela Cuevas Barron welcomed the plan of the members of the Inter-Parliamentary Group of Iran on compliance with the international obligations, saying that this issue will be discussed at the next meeting of the union in Serbia.

US Border Patrol agents have discovered the bodies of four people, including three children, within a wildlife management area near the US-Mexico border in south Texas, according to a sheriff.

Trump administration systematically violates criteria of the international community to save the world peace and security, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Abbas Mousavi said on Tuesday.

Judiciary Chief Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on Monday received a number of foreign ambassadors, chargé d'affaires and representatives from different international bodies.

In continuation of hostile anti-Iran policies, the US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Mon. imposing new sanctions against Iran in response to Tehran's downing of an American drone last week.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the US to withdraw forces from the Persian Gulf, but warned against some regional countries’ “thirst for war”.

The Head of Iran's High Council for Human Rights revealed that Iran and Japan will start human rights talks soon to "discuss judicial and legal understanding away from political games."

A Gazan mother stated that Israel denied her access to her three ill newborn babies because her travel permit expired. Instead, she learned by phone that two of her kids died, and waited months to see her surviving daughter.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed a controversy over the case of Nazanin Zaghari, a dual Iranian-British citizen jailed in Iran on espionage charges, and denounced protests against her detention that have been disrupting the activities of Iran’s Embassy in London.