An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities said. Earlier in November, video…
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USA: FBI charges man with alleged plot to bomb New York Stock Exchange
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with plotting to set off a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), according to court documents. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener is…
USA: 43-year-old man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home
A 43-year-old man was fatally shot by police in Las Vegas after he called 911 for help while fighting off an intruder in his home. The family of Brandon Durham,…
Russia: President Putin gifts lion and brown bears to North Korea zoo
Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korea’s main zoo more than 70 animals, including a lion and two brown bears, in yet another display of burgeoning relations between Moscow…
USA: Authorities charge Indian billionaire Gautam Adani with fraud
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been charged with fraud in the US, which has accused him of orchestrating a $250m (£198m) bribery scheme and concealing it to raise money in…
Laos: Four tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning
Australian teen Bianca Jones has become the fourth tourist to have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos. The 19-year-old’s family confirmed her death to the media on Thursday.…
Mali: Government wins $160m in gold mining dispute after detaining British businessman
An Australian mining company, Resolute Mining, says it will pay Mali’s military government $160m (£126m) to settle a tax dispute, after the company’s British boss and two other staff were…
Russia: Putin warns the west that the Ukraine war is going global
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that an attack by his forces on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday morning was carried out using “a new conventional intermediate-range…
Ukraine: President Putin confirms testing new ballistic missile on city of Dnipro
Ukraine has accused Russia of firing a new kind of missile at the city of Dnipro as Moscow said it tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile in a strike on Ukraine,…
Iraq: Government conducts first national census in nearly 40 years
Iraq is conducting a nationwide census, its first attempt to gather demographic data since 1987 when Saddam Hussein was still in power. The Ministry of Interior announced a two-day curfew…