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Iranian MPs have voted to review a controversial hijab law behind closed doors - meaning it is likely there will be no public debate on the matter.The so-called Hijab and Chastity Bill would impose a raft of new punishments on women who fail to wear the headscarf.It was drafted in response to months...
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Russia has warned that military intervention in Niger would lead to a "protracted confrontation" after regional bloc Ecowas said it would assemble a standby force.Such an intervention would destabilise the Sahel region as a whole, the Russian foreign ministry said.Russia does not form...
The United States has returned more than 250 ancient artefacts to Italy after police discovered that they had been stolen.The art unit of Italy's police force found the items had been looted and sold to US museums and private collectors in the 1990s.Among the precious artefacts include pots, pai...
Six people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank in the Channel.A spokeswoman from French coastal authority Premar said between five and 10 others are missing, AFP reports.British and French coastguards have rescued around 50 people from the vessel, authorities said.A number of people were s...
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The Taliban's treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan is a "crime against humanity", Gordon Brown has told the BBC. The former prime minister is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute those responsible for the "vicious" abuse of human rights.&...
The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying "I shot [her] dead", unsealed court documents show.While being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted "I did it", adding &quo...
Entertainment & Glomour
Several Miss Universe Indonesia candidates have registered police complaints accusing organisers of sexual abuse.The contestants were asked to take off their tops for "body checks" and photographs two days before the finals on 3 August, one of their lawyers said.The organisers allegedly to...
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In a year's time the Summer Olympics will be underway in Paris.The athletes will, of course, be hoping to make history, but so will one aviation start-up, Volocopter.If all goes to plan, its two-seater electric aircraft, VoloCity, will be carrying passengers around Paris. It will be the first se...
Two Saturdays ago, five people sat down for a family meal in a tiny Australian town.Within a week, three would be dead, a fourth fighting for life, and the fifth under investigation for potentially poisoning her guests with wild mushrooms.But the 48-year-old woman who cooked the lunch says she has n...
Niger's coup leaders have closed the country's airspace until further notice, citing the threat of military intervention from their neighbours.It comes after the Ecowas group of West African states demanded President Mohamed Bazoum be reinstated by Sunday. There has been no sign of a militar...
Imran Khan has been arrested for the second time in a matter of months, but this time the reaction looks very different. What could happen next?There could not have been a starker contrast between 9 May and 5 August this year.While Imran Khan's first arrest led to protests in the streets from Pe...
As the flooding emergency in western Beijing turned deadlier at the beginning of this week, taking out bridges, washing away dozens of cars at a time, and wreaking havoc on the city, the decision was made to divert the raging waters.The effect was almost immediate. The pressure came off in the ...
It's impossible to know how genuinely worried Donald Trump may be about the prospect of going to jail for any of the criminal offences he has been charged with.He claims he could be facing a combined 561 years in prison thanks to the "Left's witch hunts". That may be an exaggeratio...
India's Supreme Court has suspended opposition leader Rahul Gandhi's conviction in a criminal defamation case.The Congress leader was sentenced to two years in jail in March for his 2019 comments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname at an election rally.Mr Gandhi was disqualified...
The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet's health.The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU's climate change service Copernicus.It rea...
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has told BBC HARDtalk the military is petrified of an election, which is expected to take place later this year.He alleged that "fascists" are leading the country into the "dark ages".Mr Khan was elected in 2018, ruled for just unde...
Police raids targeting drug gangs in three Brazilian states have left at least 43 people dead.In the latest operation in Rio de Janeiro, police said they returned fire in a shoot-out in the Complexo da Penha area, killing at least 10.Earlier, 14 suspects died in clashes during a five-day police raid...
Former US President Donald Trump's indictment for allegedly plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat has drawn a mix of responses from his Republican rivals.While some have backed the former president and criticised the process, others have been less supportive.The indictment, the third bei...
Artificial intelligence can "safely" read breast cancer screening images, a Swedish study suggests.Researchers led by a team at Lund University found computer-aided detection could spot cancer at a "similar rate" to two radiologists.But they said more research was needed to fully...
At least 11 people have died and 13 others are missing in torrential rains in Beijing as China braces for the third typhoon in as many weeks.The remnants of last week's super storm Doksuri flooded Beijing for the fourth straight day on Tuesday even as another typhoon approached the eastern coast...
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