A top Iranian security official said on Sunday the country will form an interim council later in the day to assume the leadership responsibilities until the selection of a new leader.
China is "deeply concerned" about the military strikes that the United States and Israel launched against Iran on Saturday, said Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN).
The death toll from a joint U.S.-Israeli strike on a girls' elementary school in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan rose to 148, semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
Multiple world leaders expressed concerns after the United States and Israel on Saturday launched "major combat operations" against Iran and Iran retaliated with a series of counterattacks against Israel and U.S. targets across the region.
The United States and Israel on Saturday launched coordinated airstrikes against Iran, with the latter responding with a series of attacks on Israel and U.S. targets across the Middle East.
China is highly concerned over the military strikes against Iran launched by the U.S. and Israel, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Saturday, noting that China calls for an immediate stop of the military actions.
Israel launched a "preemptive" strike against Iran on Saturday morning "to remove threats to Israel," the Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement.
China is deeply concerned about the escalation of the conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and calls on both sides to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Friday.
The Chinese Embassy in Tel Aviv issued a security alert on Friday, urging Chinese nationals in Israel to strengthen precautionary measures as risks in the Middle East further escalated.
China will continue to play a constructive role for peace in its own way and support all efforts for peace, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday in response to a related query regarding the Ukraine crisis.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he is "not happy" with the way the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks are going but has not made a final decision on potential military operations against Iran.
The U.S.-Iran nuclear talks have made "substantial progress" toward a deal which "is within our reach", Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi, a major mediator, said Friday.
Some European countries on Friday urged their citizens to leave or avoid travel to Iran and several other Middle East regions due to escalating U.S.-Iran tensions.
UN humanitarians said Friday that food has been distributed to about 200,000 families, or nearly 1 million people, in the Gaza Strip this month despite rations being cut by half.
The U.S. Department of Justice's release of the remaining Epstein files has deepened public distrust in the U.S. justice system, with the documents implicating several prominent political and business figures in the convicted sex offender's network.
U.S. State Department authorized on Friday the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and family members of U.S. government personnel from Mission Israel due to safety risks, U.S. embassy in Jerusalem posted on X.