It's aimed at children, but instead of princes and princesses, fairies and magicians, the heroes of Lebanon's "Mahdi" magazine are the "fighters who fell resisting the Israeli enemy".

Produced by Hizbullah for the last 11 years, Mahdi aims to teach a new generation the group's ideology of "resistance" to the Jewish state.

Around 700 migrants aboard a freighter that had been drifting in the Aegean Sea for two days began disembarking on the Greek island of Crete on Thursday, local officials said.

The migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, include "a lot of women and children", said Theodosis Kalantzakis, the mayor of Ierapetra.

Iran and world powers will try to conclude a nuclear deal before a new summer deadline, a senior European diplomat said Wednesday, just days after negotiations ended unsuccessfully in Vienna.

"The extension is until June 30 but there's a clear commitment to capitalize on the momentum and get it done much earlier," the diplomat said.

Iran's conservative-controlled parliament finally approved a new science minister on Wednesday after rejecting President Hassan Rouhani's two previous nominees for the post as too reformist.

Lawmakers voted by 197 votes to 28 to confirm Iranian Red Crescent chief Mohammad Farhadi in the sensitive job, which has responsibility for Iran's universities and students, whose political activities are heavily monitored by the regime.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani faced thinly veiled pressure Tuesday over a missed nuclear deal deadline and an unexpected seven-month extension of talks, with hardliners denouncing the diplomatic deadlock.

The failure to clinch a final agreement with world powers dominated newspaper front pages, with most editorials viewing further dialogue as pointless because the talks have not yet yielded results.

A Pakistani on Tuesday became the eighth person from his country to be beheaded in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking since mid-October.

Seyfour al-Rahman Golajan is the latest of 73 people, foreigners and Saudis, to be executed in the kingdom this year, according to an Agence France Presse tally.

Iran's media were deeply split Tuesday on the merit of extending nuclear talks with the West, with conservative newspapers slamming the move as reformist outlets said progress had been made.

Vatan-e-Emrooz, a hardline broadsheet title, headlined its front page "Nothing" -- and beneath the fold had only empty white space.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed reports Monday that world powers had failed to strike a deal with the Jewish state's arch-foe Iran on its controversial nuclear program.

Speaking before Tehran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany decided to give themselves seven more months to reach an agreement, Netanyahu said such a result would be "better."

Iran and world powers missed a Monday deadline to clinch a landmark nuclear deal and defuse a 12-year standoff but gave themselves seven more months to reach agreement.

The failure followed an intensive five-day diplomatic push in the Austrian capital Vienna involving the foreign ministers of Iran, the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world powers against making a "historic mistake" in nuclear talks with Iran, as tortuous negotiations approached deadline.

"It's important that there won't be a bad deal," Netanyahu told ABC News on Sunday.