Iranian courts have issued a death sentence and a range of prison terms in four separate cases involving individuals arrested during the nationwide protests of January 2026, according to reports from the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

A Revolutionary Court in Iran has once again sentenced Yaghoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, to death, despite the fact that his previous death sentence was overturned by Iran’s Supreme Court and the case was sent back for retrial, according to the foreign-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

Bangladesh has recorded almost 600 measles-related deaths amid what officials describe as the country’s worst outbreak of the disease in decades.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, has said Iran’s adversaries have turned to “hybrid warfare” tactics after what he described as a humiliating defeat in the face of the country’s armed forces, urging national unity and vigilance to counter enemy plots.

Six prisoners convicted on charges related to drug offences and murder have been executed in prisons across Iran, according to reports cited by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

Revolutionary Courts in Iran have sentenced one man to death and handed down prison terms to several others in cases linked to the January 2026 nationwide protests, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

The death toll from a catastrophic chemical tank rupture in Washington state has risen to 11 after recovery crews successfully located the bodies of all nine missing workers, local authorities confirmed on Saturday.

Senior officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) have condemned the killing of Hussam Zaidan, a former correspondent for Iran’s al-Alam TV channel in Syria, in a recent Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has sharply condemned what he described as Israel’s “brutal attacks” on Beirut and Lebanon’s historic southern cities, warning that international silence is giving Israel a green light to continue the violence.

An Israeli airstrike has reportedly killed a former correspondent for Iran’s Arabic-language al-Alam television channel along with three other civilians in southern Lebanon.