As the deadline for the UK and the EU to come to terms on a trade deal, without which Britain may be obliged to follow WTO rules, fast approaches, it would appear the EU is on the verge of giving London one last chance.

Riyadh has refused to return the bodies of at least 33 of the 37 prisoners, all Shia Muslims, executed en masse in 2019, following trials that Amnesty International said relied on confessions extracted through torture.

Iran's defense ministry said the top scientist was seriously wounded after attackers targeted his car and exchanged fire with his bodyguards in Absard, to the east of capital Tehran. Fakhrizadeh later died from his injuries in hospital.

There are numerous reports that Yemeni children as young as seven are being recruited by the Saudi-led campaign to kill or be killed while fighting against their will and against their homeland.

Yemen’s popular Ansarullah forces have hit back hard very deep inside Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s latest reprisal attack has once again reminded the oil rich kingdom that it cannot hit and run any more since Yemen’s capabilities to respond to the Saudi-led war have been improving fast.

US sanctions imposed on Iran by the Trump administration have led to children with cancer needlessly dying in Iran from lack of medicine; thousands of adults are also dying each month from COVID-19.

The prospect of individual nations entering a second lockdown will create a heavy burden on the governments of each country, as well as the EU as a whole, to pick up the pieces left over from pandemic ravaged economies.

The RCEP, the new multilateral trade agreement, which is expected to further strengthen America’s arch rival, has been hailed as the most far reaching trade deal in history.

Iran is now free to purchase anything from tanks to warplanes and naval vessels without the need for UN approval or US interference.

The chief of the English Football Association, Greg Clark, was forced to apologise and resign after he used the word coloured to describe black players.