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Pop singer arrested by Iran's regime after releasing track dedicated to women
KeithBinns/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Mehdi Yarrahi, a prominent Iranian pop singer, was arrested by Iranian authorities on Monday after releasing a song celebrating the anniversary of the Mahsa Amini pr...
Aug 29, 2023
Countries must provide a clean and healthy environment for children: UN
Lucia Vazquez/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A United Nations committee strengthened a treaty on Monday on children's rights in their fight against climate change, according to new guidance from the organizati...
Aug 29, 2023
DNA confirms Wagner Group leader among crash victims, Russian officials say
Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(LONDON and AMSTERDAM) -- Remains found after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private plane crashed last week were confirmed by genetic testing to be t...
Aug 27, 2023
Three Marines killed in V-22 Osprey crash in Australia identified
abzee/Getty Images(DARWIN, Australia) -- The Marine Corps on Monday identified the three Marines killed on Sunday when their Osprey aircraft crashed during a training exercise off the northern coast o...
Aug 27, 2023
Greece warns of 'arsonist scum' amid deadly wildfires
Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images(ATHENS, Greece) -- As firefighters battle wildfires raging across swathes of Greece that have killed at least 20 people, authorities warned that "arsonist scum" a...
Aug 25, 2023
BRICS announces major expansion with six countries joining in 2024
Gianluigi Guercia/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The five-nation BRICS group announced expansion of members on Thursday, having invited six countries to join the bloc. South African President Cy...
Aug 24, 2023
North Korea fails second attempt to launch spy satellite but vows to try again
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- North Korea said a second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit failed early Thursday, but the reclusive country vowed to launch another in the coming months...
Aug 24, 2023
Putin breaks silence on Prigozhin plane crash as bodies taken to medical examiner's office
Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his first comments Thursday on the mysterious plane crash that presumably killed Wagner Group head Yevgeny P...
Aug 24, 2023
Japan begins releasing Fukushima's treated radioactive water into Pacific, prompting strong rebuke from China
STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company began releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on...
Aug 24, 2023
Female Afghan students stopped by Taliban on way to Dubai
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A group of around 100 Afghan women was stopped by the Taliban from boarding a plane to the United Arab Emirates in order to attend university there, their sponso...
Aug 24, 2023
