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Iran is doing its best to bring down the number of executions of child offenders to zero, a senior Iranian official told AFP amid recurrent criticism from the UN and … Read More

A camp in northeast Syria housing Islamic State group relatives saw at least eight murders last month, Kurdish forces said Tuesday, the latest of dozens of such killings since January.

While Fremaux praised Netflix – which began streaming in 2007 – for their ‘extraordinary work’, he was quick to turn the knife in his defence of the magic of the … Read More

Using radiocarbon dating, archaeologists determined the recently-unearthed artifact to be at least 51,000 years old – pre-dating the arrival of Homo sapiens in central Europe by some 10,000 years, according … Read More

Steven Spielberg, who produced Donner’s ‘The Goonies,’ said, ‘Dick had such a powerful command of his movies, and was so gifted across so many genres. Being in his circle was … Read More

China’s central bank warned companies on Tuesday against assisting cryptocurrency-related businesses as it shut down a software firm over suspected involvement in digital currency transactions.

Israel agreed a Covid vaccine swap with South Korea Tuesday, sending 700,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab to Seoul “immediately” in return for the same number in coming months.

Ethiopia said Tuesday it rejected “unwelcome meddling” by the Arab League in a long-running dispute with Egypt and Sudan over a mega-dam on a tributary of the Nile River.

There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying.

Afghan authorities deployed hundreds of commandos and pro-government militiamen on Tuesday to counter the Taliban’s blistering offensive in the north, a day after more than 1,000 government troops fled into … Read More