The European Union's top rights prize was created in 1988 to honor individuals or groups defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited six Arab states and Israel to discuss how to curb Hamas while alleviating the civilian suffering in Gaza, while a US special envoy for relief was also named.
Many leaders and activists welcomed the Nobel Committee's decision to award jailed activist Narges Mohammadi the Peace Prize -- but not the Iranian regime.
An Iranian teenager remains in a coma in a heavily monitored hospital after an alleged 'morality police' assault at a Tehran metro station.
In addition to long jail sentences and heavy fines, those found in breach of new legislation could be flogged and punished with travel restrictions.
Messages of five female Iranian political prisoners have echoed throughout the world since French daily Le Monde published their letters from prison.
Mitra Hejazipour says she cannot take her mind off the Iran protests, caught between hopes of a breakthrough and fear of repression.
A year after Mahsa Amini's fateful death, Iranians across the world gathered in protest against the Islamic Republic in her memory. In Iran, they protested under tight security.
'As long as democracy, equality and freedom have not been achieved, we must continue to fight and sacrifice,' human rights activist Narges Mohammadi says from prison.
The anti-establishment protest movement has the regime on edge as its first anniversary is looming and its effects are still seen on Iran's streets.