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Southern Italy faces food shortages as truckers’ protests empty shelves
The US-Israeli war on Iran is disrupting life in southern Italy, with truckers’ protests causing food shortages and threatening essential services.

The US-Israeli war on Iran is disrupting life in southern Italy, with truckers’ protests causing food shortages and threatening essential services.
Analyst Mohsin Abbas argues that US threats against Iran serve Israeli interests, risk wider conflict and underscore Tehran’s need to maintain its deterrence against Western coercion.

Iran’s envoy to the UN General Assembly fiercely defended Tehran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy, criticizing the IAEA and Security Council for their "blatant hypocrisy."

Two super tankers carrying a combined 4.5 million barrels of crude oil were engulfed in flames after striking sea mines, the IRGC Navy announces.

Mazin Qumsiyeh says that the only way Palestinians to exist is to resist.
Japan Football Association President Tsuneyasu Miyamoto says deteriorating security situation in Saudi Arabia could jeopardize the kingdom’s plans to host the 2027 Asian Cup.

he United Nations Children’s Fund says hundreds of Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire agreement has entered into force.
More than 100 days have passed since Saudi Arabia renewed its aggression against Yemen.
The mayor of Trappes, a city west of Paris, has condemned a deadly shooting at a gas station as a “racist, probably Islamophobic” attack that left one person dead and four others wounded.

Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna has urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to drop its “double standards”, and not to submit to pressure from certain regimes.

Iran won seven gold and seven silver medals on the fifth day of the 2026 Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
Israeli bulldozers demolish a Palestinian building following the shooting operation that left two Israeli soldiers killed and three wounded in the southern Occupied West Bank.

The Iranian Parliament speaker urges Western protesters to resist identity-based distractions and focus on accountability over corruption and war.
Ecuador's prison authorities announced that eight people were killed and ten others injured during riots that broke out in the country's prisons on Thursday.

At least seven people have been killed and 34 were injured when ‘Takfiri’ gunmen opened fire during a funeral service at a Greek Orthodox church in southern Jordan.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 16:00 GMT on October 23, 2026.
Displaced Palestinians receive food meals from one of the charity kitchens in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Britain and France held their first joint Mediterranean exercise involving France’s airborne nuclear capability, signalling closer nuclear cooperation between Europe’s two nuclear powers.