Israel's president Saturday pardoned the combat medic who shot dead at close range a badly wounded Palestinian attacker who had stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank a decade ago. Elor Azaria's conviction for manslaughter and his release after serving two-thirds of his sentence drew enormous attention in Israel,

Iran has executed Hossein Pedaran after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence on charges of espionage and cooperation with Israel, according to Iran’s judiciary-run Mizan news agency. Iranian authorities accused Pedaran of passing sensitive information about military and missile sites in Isfahan to Mossad during the recent conflict.