Japan's Nikkei index is set to post its best weekly performance in three months on Friday, buoyed by investor optimism that US President Donald Trump can reach trade agreements with major partners, including Japan.

Two Palestinians were martyred and others injured on Friday after an Israeli drone targeted a civilian car in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that Ukrainian forces' losses on the Kursk axis amounted to more than 225 soldiers over the past 24 hours, in addition to the destruction of a number of military equipment.

Resistance operations were continued in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds over the past week, and 91 acts of qualitative and popular resistance occurred, resulting in the injury of three settlers.

Talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, began Friday afternoon in Moscow to discuss bilateral relations and regional and international issues.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the US airstrikes on Ras Isa Port in Yemen, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of dozens of innocent Yemenis and the destruction of the port.

A Lebanese man was martyred on Friday in an Zionist airstrike targeting a car on the Ghaziyeh road in southern Lebanon.

Air raid sirens sounded this Friday morning in large areas of occupied Palestine, followed by explosions concentrated in the greater Tel Aviv area, the western West Bank, and the mountains west of Quds.

Liverpool Football Club officially announced the renewal of the contract of its Dutch defender and captain, Virgil van Dijk, for two years.

Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova eliminated compatriot Mira Andreeva from the Stuttgart Open, Germany, after defeating her in straight sets in the round of 16.

The Government Media Office in Gaza stated that the number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in enemy prisons has reached more than 10,000. The enemy is holding them in more than 20 torture and detention centers under extremely cruel and brutal conditions, where the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law are violated without restraint.

Dozens of activists and supporters in the French capital, Paris, organized a protest in support of journalists in the Gaza Strip who are being targeted in the war of extermination.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Islami, emphasized that Tehran's permanent demand from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is to adhere to neutrality and professional conduct.

North Korea's Ministry of Defense issued a strongly worded statement saying that South Korea and the United States are "raising tensions" on the Korean Peninsula through their joint military exercises.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, condemned the Israeli attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, the last functioning hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian resistance factions continue their operations against the enemy army and settlers in the West Bank, carrying out 15 resistance actions during the past 24 hours, in conjunction with the military offensive that the enemy has been carrying out since mid-January on the northern cities of the West Bank.

The head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza Strip and head of its negotiating delegation, Khalil al-Haya, announced on Thursday evening that the movement is ready to immediately start comprehensive package negotiations, and that it will not be part of a partial agreement.

Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Ebrahim Azizi, called on the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, who is currently visiting Tehran, to be honest.

The Zionist enemy forces invaded, on Thursday evening, the village of Fahma, south Jenin.

A Chinese delegation visited Brazil to promote Asian trade relations and discuss major infrastructure projects, including a railway project linking the South American country to a huge port in Chancay, Peru, according to the South China Morning Post.