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Beheshti wins six Asian weightlifting golds as Iranian girls secure historic runner-up finish
Iranian weightlifter Mahsa Beheshti completed a remarkable six-gold haul at the 2026 Asian Youth & Junior Championships in Tashkent.
Iranian weightlifter Mahsa Beheshti completed a remarkable six-gold haul at the 2026 Asian Youth & Junior Championships in Tashkent.

Russian foreign minister has condemned the EU’s measures against Russian commercial vessels as “robbery” and “piracy,” warning that Moscow will choose its own targets in response.

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy says, dismissing US claims about the level of maritime and oil traffic through the strategic waterway.

Editor-in-chief of MENA Uncensored says many US military veterans face depression after finding that reality was very different from what officials had promised.

Israeli military forces have gone on a shooting spree in a village in Syria’s southern Dara’a province, forcing locals to leave their homes.

An Israeli-American rabbi has praised changes made to Saudi school textbooks, including the deletion of the anti-Zionist content, despite criticism that Saudi Arabia has yielded to US demands.

An international affairs analyst says the shipping data contradicts Trump's claims that the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz.

The Pentagon has formally admitted that US military airstrikes last year killed at least 153 Yemeni civilians and injured nearly 250 others.

Iran’s ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the UN has rejected “baseless” US allegations that Tehran is destabilizing Yemen or using commercial flights to Sana’a to transfer military personnel or equipment.

What began as an Israeli settler attack on Palestinian homes in Qusra, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, has escalated into a wider military lockdown.

Tehran says says a possible agreement with Oman on a new shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz will not mean the strategic waterway will reopen.

Palestinian medics and volunteers have launched a mobile clinic to provide medical care to displaced people in remote areas of Gaza amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 2:00 GMT on August 14, 2026.

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has demanded the immediate dismissal of War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi has firmly attributed the recent oil pollution along the shores of Qeshm Island to the repercussions of foreign military aggression in the region.

Iran has denounced the US and Israel for committing some of the most severe violations of international humanitarian law in modern history through their ongoing military aggression against the Islamic Republic.

This episode looks into the growing contradiction between Washington's claims and the reality on the ground in the Strait of Hormuz.

The US military has lost about a quarter of its MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet, with dozens destroyed by Iranian air defense systems during the US-Israeli aggression, according to a report.