Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’
Reuters :Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday (8 August) ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the...
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Pakistan court rejects jailed Imran Khan’s plea to suspend conviction
Reuters :A Pakistani high court on Wednesday turned down an appeal by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan that his conviction on corruption charges be...
Nine dead, two missing after fire at holiday home for disabled people in France
Reuters :Nine bodies were found in the smouldering ruins of a holiday home housing disabled people that caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday...
Five people killed in Cape Town taxi strike violence
BBC Online :Five people have died in violent protests relating to a taxi strike in Cape Town, South Africa, officials say. The victims include a...
Landslides, floods kill 38 so far as monsoon rains lash Nepal
Reuters :Landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least one person, and blocked a major highway in Nepal this week, officials said on Tuesday,...
Russian strikes on east Ukraine residential building kill at least 7
Reuters :Rescue workers combed through the rubble of damaged buildings in the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, the day after Russian strikes...
Cambodia’s king endorses Hun Manet as next prime minister
Al Jazeera :Cambodia’s king has approved the nomination of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son as the nation’s next leader after their party sealed victory...
Niger junta rejects West African ultimatum
Reuters :Niger was waiting on Monday for a response from the West African regional bloc after coup leaders ignored a deadline to reinstate the ousted...
3 Palestinians shot dead, say Israeli police
Reuters :Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday (6 August), Israeli police said, drawing threats of revenge by...
Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence ‘folly’
Reuters :Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the US atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and...
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s lawyers cannot reach him in jail
Reuters :Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lawyers could not reach him on Sunday after he spent the night in a jail near the capital...