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Sudan on Wednesday released several key civilian leaders and a former member of the ruling Sovereign Council, arrested in the months following a military coup last year, a lawyer said. “All the leaders of the Forces for Freedom and Change, who were det…

Greece made a formal protest to Turkey on Wednesday involving accusations that the fellow-NATO member conducted unauthorised military flights over inhabited Greek islands. “These actions constitute a violation of Greece’s sovereignty, they are an unacc…

A Paris police officer is set to be charged with “wilful violence” after he opened fire on a car in the heart of the capital on Sunday night, killing two people just hours after President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected. The officer used his assault rif…

A state investigation launched after George Floyd’s killing in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers has determined that the department engages in a pattern of race discrimination. Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights announced the finding …

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has claimed he did not scheme against toppled former leader Mohamed Morsi, who died in an Egyptian courtroom in 2019, on Tuesday. Sisi made the claim at the Egyptian Family Iftar, an annual banquet held during th…

Rival factions in Yemen have continued to trade blame over violating a UN ceasefire which came into effect at the start of this month and a failure to reopen the country’s main airport in the capital Sanaa. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, who overran San…

Almost 50 British pro-Palestine and other civil society groups announced their opposition on Tuesday to an expected anti-boycott bill believed likely to target boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) efforts against Israel. It is anticipated the propos…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday praised cooperation with the country’s largest trading partner China, saying Tehran wanted to “expand its long-term strategic relations” at a meeting with Beijing’s defence minister. Raisi stressed that “reg…

More than 20 people have been killed in anattack on Muslims in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar during the funeral of a Muslim elder, a local Islamic group said on Wednesday. The Islamic Affairs Council of Amhara, the region where Gondar is locate…

In south Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh camp for Palestinian refugees, one organisation is running an initiative to provide iftar meals for elderly unsupported women during Ramadan. The initiative by the Beiti social centre – a not-for-profit charitable organ…