Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's visit to Geneva this week to attend the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council again demonstrated the abject failure of the West's anti-Iran project.

UN General Assembly President Csaba Korosi has praised Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for granting amnesty to a large number of Iranian prisoners, including those arrested in the recent foreign-backed riots.

Here are Press TV’s latest top stories, 17:00 GMT on February 28, 2023

Iran says the United States and a handful of states led by Washington are manipulating the concept of human rights in line with their own political purposes.

A senior Iranian diplomat says ethnic cleansing across the occupied Palestinian territories has turned into a permanent and deliberate policy of the occupying Israeli regime.

Talks between US and Russian diplomats begin in Geneva on Monday after a weekslong stand-off over Russian troop deployments near its border with Ukraine, with veteran envoys on each side trying to avert a crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says it is the special responsibility of Moscow and Washington to ensure global strategic stability as the world's nuclear powers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, sat down to have two rounds of meetings in a Geneva summit.

Putin and Biden will meet in Geneva within hours with wide disagreements likely and expectations low for any breakthroughs.

Iran welcomes election of a new Libya interim government, hoping it will create conditions for national elections later this year in the conflict-ridden country.