*** IRAN DAILY
-- Pakistan’s new PM invites Raeisi to Islamabad
Pakistan’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif invited President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi to an official visit to Pakistan, hoping to establish closer relations with Iran.
In a tweet on Monday, Pakistan’s Embassy in Tehran said Sharif thanked Raeisi for his congratulatory message on his election.
-- New order impossible in Mideast without Iran’s support: Analyst
When will the volatile Middle East find peace and stability? Is a new situation in the making in the region? Is this new situation going toward peace and stability, or the continuation and increase of tensions? Who are the main actors in the new situation? Iran Daily has conducted an exclusive interview with Iranian diplomat and former ambassador to Turkey, Firouz Dolatabadi, to possibly find answers to these questions. Dolatabadi believes that the region is moving toward more turmoil.
-- Russia launches ‘Battle of Donbas’ on eastern Ukraine
Russia launched its long-awaited all-out operation on east Ukraine on Tuesday, unleashing thousands of troops in what Ukraine described as the Battle of the Donbas, a campaign to take control of two provinces.
Ukrainian officials said their troops would withstand the new operation, which they said began overnight with Russian artillery and rocket barrages and attempts to advance across almost the entire stretch of the eastern front.
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-- Hazara School Targeted in Terrorist Bombing in Kabul
At least six people were killed and 11 wounded Tuesday by two bomb blasts at a boys’ school in the Afghan capital, with social media showing grisly images from the Hazara Shia neighborhood.
The number of bomb blasts in the country has significantly declined since the Taliban ousted the U.S.-backed Afghan government in August, but the terrorist Daesh group has claimed several attacks since then.
-- French Wonder Whom to Choose Between ‘Evils’
“Those who say they will vote for the far right on April 24, 2022, please unfriend me immediately,” warns M’hamed Kaki on his Facebook page.
A French citizen of Algerian descent, Kaki is the president of the Les Oranges organization, dedicated to retelling the story of how immigrants positively contributed to French history. He arrived in France at the age of nine, and the horrors of racism are still ingrained in his memory.
-- Russia Launches New Phase of Operation in Ukraine
Russian forces on Tuesday seized control of the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the area, as Moscow launched a new phase of its military offensive in the former Soviet republic.
The regional governor made the announcement, saying Kreminna, a city of more than 18,000 people about 574 km southeast of the capital, Kiev, was captured after Russian forces attacked “from all sides.”
*** TEHRAN TIMES
-- Swedish extremist disrupts societal serenity by insulting Muslims
Hundreds of millions of Muslims across the globe took umbrage at a leader of a far-right group in Sweden for violating the sanctity of the holy Quran.
A Swedish reactionary politician has disrupted societal peace in Sweden by taking the sacrilegious step of burning the holy Quran, a book deeply venerated and cherished by all Muslims in the world.
-- Annual oil industry revenues top $43b
Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji said the oil industry has brought the country over $43 billion of revenues in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20), Shana reported on Tuesday. Oji made the remarks at a ceremony for signing a cooperation memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Oil Ministry and Tehran Municipality.
-- Iran grieves for Afghan schoolchildren killed in terrorist attack
Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi on Tuesday censured bomb attacks against schoolchildren in Kabul, Afghanistan, calling the move another criminal act by terrorists. “Targeting innocent children in the holy month of Ramadan once again showed the reality of criminal terrorists,” Bahadori Jahromi tweeted.
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