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A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reports today. Mehdi Hashemi, 53, left Tehran’s Evin prison late Tuesday, his lawyer ...

  Nurses across England today began two days of strike over pay, threatening fresh disruption for patients in the creaking state-run health service, as new figures showed inflation still surging. The walkout comes after nurses held their union’s first stoppage ...

A ban on foreigners buying residential property in Canada took effect on Sunday, aiming to make more homes available to locals facing a housing crunch. Several exceptions in the act allow individuals such as refugees and permanent residents who are ...

  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has passed on. The Holy See Press Office announced that the 95-year-old Pope died at 9:34 am in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery on Saturday. He had chosen the Ecclesiae Monastery as ...

  More than 50 people have been hospitalised in western Canada after a passenger bus crashed on a highway, provincial authorities said. The cause of the Saturday evening accident, which occurred on a highway some 330 kilometers (200 miles) east ...

  The Taliban’s treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to “a crime against humanity”, G7 foreign ministers said on Thursday, demanding the ban on women attending university be reversed. “Taliban policies designed to erase women from public ...

President Muhammadu Buhari met with the United States President Joe Biden in Washington DC on Wednesday. Photos shared by the Presidency show Buhari in a meeting with Biden and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the White House ...

  The Thai King’s eldest daughter collapsed from a heart condition on Wednesday evening, Thailand’s royal palace says. Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest daughter of King Vajiralongkorn, collapsed while training her dogs north-east of Bangkok, the palace said. The 44-year-old was ...

  South Africa on Friday said it would decriminalise S€x work, hoping to tackle high levels of crime against women in a country with one of the world’s highest HIV caseloads. The sale and purchase of S€xual services will no ...

Pope Francis broke down and cried as he mentioned the travails of Ukrainians during a traditional prayer in central Rome on Thursday. The traditional prayer took place at Madonna, at the foot of a statue on the Feast of the ...

  Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that would outlaw s3x outside marriage in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the world’s most populous Muslim country. After the new criminal code was endorsed by all ...

The first coins bearing the official effigy of the King will appear in circulation in post offices around the UK from Thursday. The King’s portrait will first appear on a 50p, with the reverse, or “tails”, side of the coin ...

The United States, Japan and South Korea have imposed fresh sanctions on North Korean individuals and entities in response to Pyongyang’s recent slew of missile tests. Washington’s action on Thursday announced, blocks any assets of three North Korean officials in ...

A letter bomb explosion has been reported at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid. One employee, who was handling a letter, was hurt in the blast according to Spanish Police. He suffered light injuries went to hospital under his own steam, ...

  Police in India have blamed rats for destroying nearly 200kg of cannabis seized from criminals and kept in police stations. A court in the country heard how the rodents had in some cases eaten the marijuana being kept as ...

Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple’s iPhone, whose new model is delayed by controls imposed as China tries to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases. Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones ...

  South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Monday that the decision to release ex-president Jacob Zuma on early medical parole was “unlawful” and he should return to prison to finish his sentence for contempt of court. Zuma was ...

Equatorial Guinea went to the polls on Sunday, with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo all-but-certain of winning a record sixth term in a the West African country with next to no opposition. Obiang, aged 80, has been in power for ...

At least five people were killed and 18 wounded in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in the US city of Colorado Springs. “It’s with a heavy heart I have to tell you that we had a shooting at ...

  The Italian women Members of Parliament (MPs) have been granted the right to breastfeed their babies in the Chamber during debates, as announced by the committee responsible for the Chamber’s rules. According to the declaration on Tuesday, breastfeeding members ...

  An Istanbul court, on Wednesday, sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called “kittens” to 8,658 years in prison in a retrial, local media reported. Adnan Oktar led television programmes surrounded by women wearing ...

  Ivanka Trump has decided to bow out of US politics and not actively join her father’s bid to retake the White House in 2024, saying she has chosen “to prioritize my young children and the private life we are ...

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs says the global population has reached an estimated 8 billion. With 216 million projected people in Nigeria, the country is home to 2.7 percent of the global population. The UN said ...

  Russian missiles have allegedly crossed into NATO member country Poland, leaving two people dead and sparking a ‘crisis situation’. A projectile struck an area where grain was drying in the Polish village of Przewodow yesterday. The region is near ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with His Royal Majesty, King Charles III in Buckingham Palace. While the reason for the meeting was not clear, both leaders expectedly discussed bilateral relations and how the United Kingdom can help Nigeria ...