Top Iran Sunni cleric says protesters should not face death sentences
Reuters :A prominent Sunni cleric said on Friday it was wrong to charge protesters with capital offences as renewed demonstrations jolted Iran’s restive southeast in...
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EU plans to fine companies for breaking sanctions against Russia
Reuters :The European Commission issued a proposal on Friday to fine companies at least 5% of their worldwide turnover if they break EU sanctions against...
Guyana sells $750 m of carbon credit to US oil firm Hess
AFP :Guyana has sold $750 million worth of carbon credits to the US oil group Hess, which drills off the coast of the small South...
US, Brazil plan Biden-Lula meeting in Washington
AFP :Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US officials said Friday he is planning to meet with President Joe Biden at the White...
Nigeria reports fresh attack on election office in southeast
AFP :A local office of Nigeria’s electoral body INEC has been set partially ablaze, the commission said Friday, the latest violence less than three months...
Price cap on Russian oil will hit Putin immediately: US
BBC :An employee is seen at an oil platform operated by Lukoil company at the Kravtsovskoye oilfield in the Baltic Sea, RussiaImage source, ReutersA cap...
White House: Biden has no intention to meet Putin now
AFP :The White House poured cold water Friday on President Joe Biden’s conditional offer to sit down with President Vladimir Putin, saying he has “no...
Chaining of people with mental illness in Ghana is ‘torture’: HRW
Al Jazeera :Ghana must take “immediate steps” to end the shackling and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions, Human Rights...
UK’s Labour comfortably beats PM Sunak’s Conservatives to retain parliament seat
Reuters :Britain’s opposition Labour Party retained a parliamentary seat in the northwest of England on Friday, increasing their majority over the Conservatives in the first...
Putin is open to talks and diplomacy on Ukraine, Kremlin says
Reuters :President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement to the conflict in Ukraine and believes in a diplomatic solution, the Kremlin...
DR Congo army accuses M23 rebels of killing 50 civilians
Al Jazeera :The armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have accused the M23 rebel group and its allies of killing 50...
Peru slaughters more than 37,000 poultry after bird flu outbreak
AFP :Peruvian authorities have culled at least 37,000 birds on a chicken farm due to bird flu, officials said Thursday, reports AFP from Lima.After previously...