UN warns Iran over response to woman stripping in protest

A UN special rapporteur has warned Iran that she is monitoring the case of a woman who was arrested after stripping down to her undergarments to protest about an assault she alleges she was subjected to for not following the country&s notoriously strict hijab laws.

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New evacuation orders issued in Gaza as 35 killed in airstrikes

Israeli forces issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip yesterday and carried out military strikes which Palestinian medics and media said had killed at least 35 people since Monday night.

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Netanyahu fires defence boss Gallant over ‘crisis of trust&

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has been fired by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who cited a &crisis of trust& affecting the invasions of Gaza and Lebanon.

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Karen Attiah: I can&t forgive Kamala Harris for failure to stop killing of Palestinians, but I still voted for her

Two days before Halloween, as the sun set on the Ellipse in Washington DC, vice-president Kamala Harris found an opportunity to conjure up the violent ghosts of Donald Trump&s past.

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Iran official claims Iranian-German prisoner died before he could be executed

An Iranian official claimed on Tuesday that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before Tehran could execute him - directly contradicting the country's earlier announcement he had been put to death.

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‘Hezbollah intelligence HQ& hit by Israeli strikes inside Syria, military claims

Israel&s air force said yesterday it had struck Hezbollah intelligence assets near Damascus in an attack on key infrastructure in Syria, which the Syrian government said had targeted civilian sites.

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