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Image source, ATASH SHAKARAMIImage caption, Nika Shakarami's family have rejected claims from officials that she killed herselfArticle informationAuthor, David GrittenRole, BBC News2 May 2024Iran's judiciary has filed charges against "a number of journalists and activists" after the publication of a BBC report alleging men working for the…

Xinhua News Agency/AP An aerial photo shows rescuers work at the site of a collapsed road section of the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, south China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday.…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel vowed anew on Tuesday to launch an invasion into the southern Gaza Strip, even as a renewed push for a cease-fire agreement was showing glimmers of a potential breakthrough.After seven months of an Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the United States, Qatar and several other countries have been hoping to broker…

29 April 2024Updated 2 hours agoImage caption, Local officials said Israel carried out further deadly air strikes overnight in the southern Gaza town of RafahThe US secretary of state hopes Hamas will accept what he has called Israel's "extraordinarily generous" offer for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal.Antony Blinken was speaking as a…

28 April 2024Updated 2 hours agoImage caption, More than half of Gaza's population has been displaced to RafahPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge.Mr Abbas, who runs parts of the occupied West Bank,…

Russia has dismissed a report claiming Vladimir Putin did not order the killing of famed dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison in February.Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, told Russia’s state-run media on Saturday that he had seen the Wall Street Journal report, which cited an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies, and that…

The Biden administration, which has been under pressure for its support of Israel’s war in Gaza, will not withhold military aid from a troubled military unit accused of human rights violations in the West Bank, so long as Israel continues with steps to hold the members of the unit accountable.In an undated letter, Secretary of State Antony J.…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Military vehicles and red carnations returned to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon on Thursday as Portugal reenacted dramatic moments from the army coup that brought democracy to the country 50 years ago.Tens of thousands of people attended the celebrations of the…

In the summer of 2019, only hours after an Iranian rocket accidentally exploded at one of Iran's own launch sites, senior U.S. officials met with then-president Donald Trump and shared a sharply detailed, highly classified image of the blast's catastrophic aftermath.The image was captured by a U.S. satellite whose true capabilities were a…

The UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, has said he was “horrified” by reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies at two of Gaza’s largest hospitals.Palestinian civil defence teams began exhuming bodies from a mass grave outside the Nasser hospital complex in Khan Younis last week after Israeli troops withdrew. A total of 310 bodies…