
— The United States said an Iranian delegation will be allowed to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly in New York. "The delegation will be under travel restrictions and will face prohibitions on the purchase of luxury and other goods per our policy. The delegation is smaller than last year," a State Department spokesperson told Reuters.
— The three-day vote will fill 450 Duma seats and 11 regional governorships, with only parties backing Putin and Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine on the ballot. Despite official denials of a new draft, fears of mobilisation are overshadowing the vote.
— The mission pointed out the Tomahawk missile strike on a primary school that killed over 150 people in the city of Minab, as well as another airstrike which killed 22 civilians. The fact-finding mission also charged Iran with human rights violations and "crimes against humanity committed".
— The report said the school was the intended point of impact, and the resulting damage wasn't the result of an errant strike or collateral damage from an attack on a compound of Iran's Revolutionary Guard next to the school. The experts said they found no information indicating that the school was used for military purposes at the time.
— Riaz Lodhi, head of the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) in Nepal, told AFP that it was among the "top three most challenging disasters" the agency had faced. "This is a very unique access challenge where, in some places, the only way to reach people is by helicopters," he said. "It's a very, very expensive operation." The catastrophic August 26 flood was triggered by a Himalayan glacial mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border, that scientists have linked to climate change.
— Since the controversy blew up earlier this week, ticket prices for his remaining shows in the US, Mexico and South America have dropped, as calls for boycotts spread.
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