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With less than a month to go until the U.S. midterm elections, Iran is escalating attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, dramatically reducing the amount of oil moving through. The uptick follows celebrations by the Trump administration that U.S....

A draft leaked earlier this year prompted civil society groups to warn that Zambia was accepting wider data-sharing terms than other African countries, including long-term access to pathogen information and specimens. The Chapter One Foundation, a human rights group,...

Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the deportation of migrants from the US to third-party African countries is against the law and exploits suffering to deter migration."Many, if not most" of the deportees have no practical option but...

KYIV — At least 30 people were killed and 18 injured after a Russian glide bomb tore apart a bus stop in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, the State Emergency Service said, as Moscow ramps up the...

Prosecutors in the United States have accused Venezuela's former leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, of conspiracy to commit torture. The fresh charges against the couple were made public on Thursday and are in addition to the...

In their previous updates on Pike's condition after the attempted execution, her team had said she was awake and speaking, and experiencing anger and confusion. She was said at that stage to be handcuffed to her bed. Her...

A congressional candidate in Arizona has said she was raped in a car park as she repaired campaign signs late at night in her district.Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democrat, told the Phoenix New Times, external she was knocked unconscious during...

The lab in Irkutsk, where the Russian worker died, has long been suspected of developing bioweapons, according to author Annie Jacobsen, who recently released her nonfiction book, "Biological War: A Scenario." Leigh Kiniry reports. Source link

Last-minute negotiations staved off a full closure of the office that handles Britain’s relations with Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Source link

A former teacher who sexually assaulted a student has been returned to jail in Indonesia after a BBC investigation revealed he was secretly released early.Mochamad Subchi Azal Tsani, known as Bechi, was sentenced to seven years in prison in...