Iran: threatens to kill brother of executed Olympic wrestler – Iranian security forces have threatened to kill the brother of Navid Afkari, an Iranian wrestling champion whose execution for participating in anti-regime demonstrations
UK says Iran’s treatment of Zaghari-Ratcliffe is ‘torture’ – Iran’s treatment of detained dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounts to “torture,” Britain said on Sunday, after she was convicted anew and banned from
India set another global record in new virus cases Thursday, as millions of people in one state cast votes despite rising infections and the country geared up to open its vaccination rollout
Twitter censors tweets critical of India’s handling of the pandemic at government request – Twitter has censored or removed more than 50 tweets that were critical of the way India’s government is
Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs – Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt’s Pharaonic kingdoms first
India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms health care
Indonesia’s navy ships on Thursday were intensely searching for a submarine that likely fell too deep to retrieve, making survival chances for the 53 people on board slim. Neighboring countries rushed their
Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner
French unions sound alarm over hospital interns’ suicides, endless work amid Covid-19. After a year working brutally long hours on the “Covid front-line”, hospital interns in France are at breaking point, to
Radical Pakistan party frees police hostages after anti-France protests – Pakistani police officers seized by supporters of a radical Islamist group as part of their campaign to get the French ambassador expelled