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Nikol Pashinyan Confirmed in New Term as Armenia's Prime Minister

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. (Reuters)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. (Reuters)
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Nikol Pashinyan Confirmed in New Term as Armenia's Prime Minister

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. (Reuters)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. (Reuters)

Armenia’s president appointed Nikol Pashinyan for a second spell as prime minister on Monday following a June parliamentary election that was won by Pashinyan’s party, Interfax news agency reported.

Pashinyan had, as prime minister, called an early election to try to end a political crisis that began when ethnic Armenian forces ceded territory to Azerbaijan in and around the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region in six weeks of fighting last year.

Pashinyan’s opponents blamed him for the military defeat and he faced large street protests, but his Civil Contract party won more than 50% of votes in the election, reported Reuters.

Pashinyan, 46, has 15 days to form a government.

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UK Police Say Two Men Stabbed in London in Stable Condition

Elements of the British police (Reuters)
Elements of the British police (Reuters)
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UK Police Say Two Men Stabbed in London in Stable Condition

Elements of the British police (Reuters)
Elements of the British police (Reuters)

British police said on Wednesday that a man had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two men were stabbed in an area of north London with a large Jewish population.

London's Metropolitan Police said the two men who had been stabbed had been taken to hospital and were in a stable condition.

The suspect also attempted to stab police officers, the Met said, adding that no officers were injured, Reuters reported.

"Specialist officers from Counter Terrorism Policing are leading the investigation and working with the Metropolitan Police to establish the full circumstances and any links to terrorism," the Met said in a statement.

Detective Chief Superintendent Luke Williams said that "investigators are considering all possible motives".

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UN: Iran Has Executed 21, Arrested 4,000 Since Start of War

A man walks past an Iranian flag installed along the roadside in Tehran on April 29, 2026, depicting images of children killed on the first day of the war in an alleged US-Israeli missile strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
A man walks past an Iranian flag installed along the roadside in Tehran on April 29, 2026, depicting images of children killed on the first day of the war in an alleged US-Israeli missile strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
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UN: Iran Has Executed 21, Arrested 4,000 Since Start of War

A man walks past an Iranian flag installed along the roadside in Tehran on April 29, 2026, depicting images of children killed on the first day of the war in an alleged US-Israeli missile strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
A man walks past an Iranian flag installed along the roadside in Tehran on April 29, 2026, depicting images of children killed on the first day of the war in an alleged US-Israeli missile strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran has executed at least 21 people and arrested more than 4,000 since the beginning of the Middle East war, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Since the US-Israeli strikes sparked the war in late February, at least nine people have been executed in connection with the protests that rocked Iran in January 2026, another 10 for alleged membership of opposition groups and two on spying charges, the UN's rights office said.

More than 4,000 people are meanwhile estimated to have been arrested on national security-related grounds, the agency added, according to AFP.

It said many detainees had been victims of forced disappearances, torture or "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment", including forced confessions -- sometimes televised -- and mock executions.

"I am appalled that -- on top of the already severe impacts of the conflict -- the rights of the Iranian people continue to be stripped from them by the authorities, in harsh and brutal ways," UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.

"I call on the authorities to halt all further executions, establish a moratorium on the use of capital punishment, fully ensure due process and fair trial guarantees, and immediately release those arbitrarily detained."

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Trump Reportedly Plans Long Blockade of Iran

Trump Reportedly Plans Long Blockade of Iran
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Trump Reportedly Plans Long Blockade of Iran

Trump Reportedly Plans Long Blockade of Iran

President Donald Trump has told US national security officials to prepare for a long blockade of Iran's ports in order to compel Tehran to give up its nuclear program, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Trump, according to the report, does not believe that Iran is negotiating in good faith and hopes it can be forced to suspend uranium enrichment for 20 years and accept tight restrictions thereafter.

"They better get smart soon!" Trump declared, in a post on his social media platform.

Citing unnamed officials, the Journal said Trump had decided during a Monday meeting in the White House situation room that both resuming bombing or walking away from the conflict were too risky.

Instead, he reportedly told officials, the US Navy would continue to squeeze Iran's key oil exports until Tehran agrees to all of Washington's demands.

Meanwhile, Trump and his top ​officials met with oil and gas executives including Chevron CEO Mike Wirth at the ‌White House ‌on ​Tuesday ‌to ⁠discuss the ​energy fallout ⁠of the Iran war and other topics, Axios reported on Wednesday.

White House ⁠chief of staff ‌Susie ‌Wiles, ​Treasury ‌Secretary Scott Bessent, and ‌envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were present, and topics ‌for the meeting included domestic production, ⁠progress ⁠in Venezuela, oil futures, natural gas and shipping, according to the Axios report.