The English Premier League returns this weekend with Liverpool on the cusp of potentially securing their 20th league title. They host Leicester City in a crucial match on Sunday, and could lift the trophy if they secure three points and their closest rivals, Arsenal, lose their home game against 18th-placed Ipswich Town on the same day. This would see Liverpool equal Manchester United's record of 20 English league titles.

On Friday, a number of families of Israeli prisoners welcomed the position of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which rejects partial deals and calls for a comprehensive agreement to end the war and guarantee the release of prisoners from both sides.

At dawn on Friday, Zionist settlers attacked the Al-Mu'arjat Bedouin community northwest of Jericho.

Italian club Fiorentina qualified for the semi-finals of the Europa Conference League after a 2-2 draw with visiting Slovenian club Celje on Thursday evening in the second leg of the quarter-finals.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) affirmed that the heinous US aggression on Yemen, which targeted the Ras Isa oil port in Al Hudaydah Governorate and resulted in the martyrdom and injury of dozens of innocent civilians, is inseparable from the Zionist genocide crimes in Gaza.

Two Palestinian citizens were killed and others injured on Friday in Israeli shelling of a tent housing displaced persons in northern Gaza Strip.

This Friday morning, Zionist settlers stormed Mount Al-Arma in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Zionist enemy forces continue their aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 82nd consecutive day, and for the 69th day against the Nur Shams camp, amid ongoing field escalation, including raids, arrests, and abuse of citizens.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who is currently visiting Russia.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) confirmed on Friday that 69% of the Gaza Strip's population is "under active evacuation orders" from the Israeli occupation army.

Zionist enemy forces arrested two Palestinian youths from the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank at dawn on Friday.

A number of Palestinian civilians were killed and others wounded early Friday morning as a result of Israeli bombardment of homes in the southern and northern Gaza Strip.

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.