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Female students in Tehran chanted "get lost" as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody, videos on social media showed. Raisi…

Ukraine is exploding with excitement this morning. Videos of the damaged Crimean bridge have spread like wildfire on social media; this is already being compared to the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva in April. "The guided…

Five teenagers have been sentenced to three years' detention in Hong Kong for 'advocating overthrow of the Beijing government. It is the first time the national security law has been used in court against under-18s in Hong Kong.…

The Financial Action Task Force plans to put Democratic Republic of Congo on a list of countries subject to increased monitoring, the country's Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya said on Saturday. Congo, a major cobalt and copper…

An appeals court temporarily blocked Arizona from enforcing a 1901 ban on nearly all abortions in the state, overruling a trial court's decision last month to let the ban proceed. The Arizona Court of Appeals granted Planned Parenthood's…

President Joe Biden is issuing an executive order pardoning all Americans who have been federally convicted of "simple possession of marijuana." The move will only affect a relatively small number of marijuana convictions since most…

Mozambique has detected its first case of monkeypox since the World Health Organization, WHO, reported an outbreak of the disease in non-endemic countries in May. A man in the capital, Maputo, has been diagnosed with the illness, health…

Ethiopia has extradited an Eritrean human smuggler to the Netherlands to face charges of running a "large-scale human trafficking." Tewelde Goitom, known as Welid, was arrested in Ethiopia two years ago and sentenced to 18 years…

Around 82,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico on Thursday, over two weeks after Hurricane Fiona caused an island-wide outage for its 3.3 million people. Fiona plowed into Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, about five…

The European Union wants the 44 countries gathering for an inaugural summit in Prague of the European Political Community (EPC) on Thursday to highlight Russia's international 'isolation' over Moscow's war in Ukraine, the bloc's top…