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Iran’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that would increase prison terms and fines for women and girls who break its strict dress code. Those dressed “inappropriately” face up to 10 years in jail under the bill, for which a three-year “trial” was agreed. It still needs to be approved by the Guardian Council to […]
An Indonesian court sentenced a woman to two years in prison after she posted a video on social media site TikTok in which she said a Muslim prayer before eating pork. According to the court, she has violated the country’s blasphemy law. Indonesia is the largest Muslim-majority nation in the world and pork is considered […]
Five Americans jailed for years in Iran and widely regarded as hostages are on their way home to the United States. The last pieces in a controversial swap mediated by Qatar fell into place when $6bn (£4.8bn) of Iranian funds held in South Korea reached banks in Doha. It triggered the departure of the four […]
Joe Biden, America’s oldest-ever president, said Monday he understood a focus on his age but that he was running for re-election because Donald Trump wanted to “destroy” US democracy. The 80-year-old usually avoids the age issue but addressed it during a fundraiser at a Broadway theatre in New York, saying his experience helped him deal […]
US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was indicted Thursday for illegally buying a gun when he was using drugs, casting a new shadow over his father’s campaign for reelection next year. Hunter Biden was charged with two counts of making false statements when claiming on forms required for the 2018 gun purchase that he was […]
Spanish police have arrested a man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a journalist after he allegedly touched her while she was live on TV. Isa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him. Ms Balado tried to […]
Joined by his top military officials handling his nuclear-capable weapons and munitions factories, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on Tuesday, where he is expected to hold a rare meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. North Korea’s official […]
Former Trump aide Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with an inquiry into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election result. Prosecutors said Navarro acted “above the law” by ignoring a subpoena from a congressional investigation. He faces up to a year in prison for each of the […]
An 11-year-old boy was killed in a tiger attack at Kallahatti village, in H D Kote taluk, Mysuru district, of india on Monday. Charan Nayaka (11), son of Krishna Nayaka and Mahadevi, is the deceased. Krishna Nayaka and his wife were working in the field at Kallahatti village, situated at one of the fringe areas […]
A leader of the far-right Proud Boys has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, one of the longest sentences yet handed out over the US Capitol riot. Prosecutors said US Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38, was an “instigator” of the storming of Congress on 6 January 2021. The former Infowars correspondent was convicted of […]
Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in his Georgia election fraud case, waiving the right to appear in court next week. Mr Trump is among 19 people charged with a conspiracy to overturn the US state’s 2020 vote results. He turned himself in at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last week, where […]
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the notorious Russian mercenary leader believed to be on board a plane that crashed Wednesday, has been confirmed dead by Russian authorities. Though Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner private military company, was one of 10 people listed on the plane’s flight manifest, Russian officials refrained from verifying his death until genetic testing was completed. Russia’s […]
Former President Donald Trump was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday on felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. It is Trump’s fourth indictment this year, but it’s the first time he has had his mug shot taken. Fulton County authorities are taking mug shots of all 19 people […]
Veteran broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88. His TV career spanned seven decades, and he interviewed the world’s biggest stars on his long-running chat show. Sir Elton John was among the former guests paying tribute to the “TV legend”, who was a “real icon who brought out the very best” in […]
Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla CEO, has a busy personal life in addition to running his companies. Over the years, he has dated, married, divorced, and had children. Musk met his first wife, Justine Wilson, at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Writing in Marie Claire, Wilson recalled that Musk invited her out for ice cream. She […]
Joseph James O’Connor has been jailed for hacking celebrity twitter accounts and demanding for money. The British man was behind the massive hack of celebrity Twitter accounts including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, and Elon Musk has been jailed for five years. He pleaded guilty to a string of cyber crime offences in May, […]
U.S. former President, Donald Trump, and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty when he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday in New York, according to media reports. The former president was in the […]
