Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released on bail, two days after going on hunger strike to protest his six-year sentence. Panahi was arrested last July and ordered to serve a …
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2/3/23
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The Dutch government says it will not appeal a court ruling that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, killing some 20 civilians, in a civil case. The District …
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By MIKE CORDER
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2/3/23
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A Kenyan former policeman has been sentenced to death for the murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver. Frederick Leliman and three others on Friday were convicted of carrying …
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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI
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2/3/23
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Turkey has railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul, for a second day. On Friday Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused nine countries of …
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2/3/23
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Top European Union officials are due to meet in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of support for the country as it battles to counter Russia’s invasion and strives to join …
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By SUSIE BLANN
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2/3/23
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Pope Francis opens the second and final leg of his African pilgrimage by heading to South Sudan. There, he and the Archbishop of Canterbury are hoping to encourage the country’s stalled peace …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD and DENG MACHOL
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2/3/23
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Satellite photos show damage to what Iran describes as a military workshop attacked by Israeli drones, the latest such assault amid a shadow war between the two countries. That's according to images …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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2/3/23
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Pakistan's military says security forces have killed two insurgents during a raid of a militant hideout in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near Afghanistan. Friday's shootout in North …
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By MUNIR AHMED
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2/3/23
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More than four years after India’s top court struck down a colonial-era law that had made homosexuality a criminal offense, it will hear arguments in March on whether to legalize same-sex marriage. …
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By SHEIKH SAALIQ
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2/3/23
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The U.K. government says it will hold a public inquiry into whether the deadliest bombing in Northern Ireland’s decades of violence could have been prevented. The judge-led probe will look at the …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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2/2/23
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