MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Far-right Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir have been removed from a potential list of EU sanctions targeting Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, Western media reported on Monday, citing a senior EU official.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that there is no military solution to the situation surrounding Cuba amid threats from the United States.

The corruption cases around former International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo show that the body has effectively become an instrument of blackmail, Lebanese political activist Hani Suleiman tells Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian armed forces violated the ceasefire with Russia 23,802 times, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - China is ready to strengthen cooperation with Russia in various areas and contribute to the construction of a more equitable system of global governance, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The cost of the US military operation against Iran continues to grow and has already exceeded $77 billion by the 71st day of the operation, according to the Iran War Cost Tracker portal.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump will discuss bilateral relations, as well as issues of global peace and development during the US leader's visit to China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran does not rule out holding talks with the United States on the nuclear issue in the future and is ready to discuss it when the time comes, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.

US is the biggest threat to peace in the world, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.

China holds a strategic edge that fundamentally changes the power dynamic ahead of the summit.

The Middle East conflict may accelerate global oil production investment, Dmitry Kasatkin, managing partner at Kasatkin Consulting, tells Sputnik.

The US administration is pursuing one goal — to pressure Iran into concluding a deal favorable to the United States more quickly, Farhad Ibragimov, a political analyst specializing in the Middle East tells Sputnik.