The Taliban delegation had to fly from Moscow to Tatarstan to participate in the international economic forum "Russia - Islamic World: Kaznforum" in Kazan. However, the delegation's visit was delayed due to a drone strike in the morning.

It has been 222 days since Israel launched its war of aggression and destruction in the Gaza Strip. 24 hours of major events in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the entire Middle East.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has nominated Andrey Belousov, the former first deputy prime minister for economic affairs, as the head of the Russian Defense Ministry. Who is Andrey Belousov? What are the tasks assigned to Belousov, and what is the purpose of appointing an economist to the military field? Azon Global studied the relationship between experts and the Western press on this issue.

On the Indonesian island of Bali, a Russian, Ukrainian brother and an Indonesian citizen were arrested for drug production and distribution. According to the investigation, the young men performed well-defined tasks: the Ukrainians were engaged in the production of drugs, the Russian citizen was responsible for distribution, and the Indonesian was an intermediary. All of them can be executed.

Israel has killed more than 134,000 Palestinians in the past 76 years since declaring independence in the historic Palestinian lands in 1948, and arrested more than 1 million people since 1967.

Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser of the US government, said that the administration in the White House does not see evidence of genocide by Israel in Gaza. According to him, the United States wants to see the defeat of Hamas. The Washington official also noted that the Palestinians living in the vortex of the war are living in extremely difficult conditions and that Israel's large-scale military operation in Rafah was a mistake.

An additional 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gases were released into the atmosphere in the four months (from mid-December 2023 to April 2024) after the Houthis attacked Israeli-affiliated ships in the Red Sea and the ships began to circumnavigate Africa via the Cape of Good Hope. According to experts' calculations, if the crisis continues, the amount of waste may reach 41 million tons per year.

Pentagon Major Harrison Mann has resigned over US support for Israel's war in Gaza. This is the first public resignation by a member of the US military and intelligence community. "Over the past months, we have been presented with some of the most horrific and heartbreaking images of what happened in Palestine, and I couldn't ignore those images. It made me feel incredible guilt," Mann said.

The Iranian parliament is debating a proposal to divide the Sunni-dominated Sistan and Baluchistan region in the south of the country into 4 regions with different names. Also, issues of relocation of 10 million people and the transfer of the coasts of Sistan and Baluchistan to other provinces are also being considered.

It has been 221 days since Israel launched its war of aggression and destruction in the Gaza Strip. 24 hours of major events in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the entire Middle East.