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Iranian police have arrested several teenage girls for not wearing headscarves at a skateboarding day in the southern city of Shiraz, along with some of the event’s organisers, state media reported Friday. A number of girls “removed their hijab at the end of the sports event without observing the religious …

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the European Union has charged Nigerians to get their Permanent Voter Cards, register and vote on the election day. The EU gave the charge on Tuesday via a statement issued by its press officer, Modestus Chukwulaka, pledging to support the mobilisation of voters to …

Twenty-one bodies have been recovered from the crash site of a Nepali passenger plane in a remote hilly area in Nepal’s Mustang district, a local government official said on Monday. Reports said: “Twenty-one dead bodies have been recovered while one remains missing,” Netra Prasad Sharma, chief district official of Mustang. …

The South Korean military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into waters off its east coast on Saturday, The latest launch came just three days after Pyongyang last fired a missile, as warnings grew that it may conduct a nuclear test. Japan’s coast guard, …

US President Joe Biden on Thursday named Karine Jean-Pierre as the next White House press secretary, the first Black person to hold the high-profile post. Jean-Pierre, who will also be the first openly LGBTQ+ person in the role, will replace Jen Psaki, under whom she served as deputy, from May …

Queen Elizabeth’s son Prince Andrew, her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan will not join her on the Buckingham Palace balcony for this year’s Trooping the Colour, royal officials said on Friday. Instead, the 96-year-old monarch has decided to limit numbers for the traditional set-piece appearance on her official birthday …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Russia will not succeed in its war against Ukraine. Zelensky said in two months, Russian armed forces had used more than 1,100 rockets, countless aerial bombs and artillery against Ukraine. Zelensky said this in his nightly video speech published on Telegram late Monday …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday denounced Russia’s fresh offensive in eastern Ukraine and called for a four-day truce to mark Orthodox Holy Week. “Instead of a celebration of new life, this Easter coincides with a Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine,” Guterres told reporters. “The intense concentration of forces and …

Sri Lanka police shot dead a protester and wounded 24 others on Tuesday in the first fatal clash with residents demonstrating against the government over the island nation’s crippling economic crisis. The South Asian country is in the grip of its most painful economic downturn since independence in 1948, with …

Libya’s National Oil Corporation announced Sunday the closure of production at a major oil field in the country’s south, declaring a “force majeure”. “On Saturday… the Al-Fil field was subjected to arbitrary closure attempts, due to the entry of a group of individuals and the prevention of the field’s workers …