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The reviews are starting to come in as details emerge about the debt ceiling agreement reached by United States President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Even before seeing those details, some politicians were criticising the deal as not doing enough to tackle the nation’s debt, while others worried it

Iranian journalist Elaheh Mohammadi, one of two Iranian reporters accused of conspiring against national security, was tried in a closed court on charges linked to her coverage of Mahsa Amini’s funeral.An Iranian journalist has gone on trial behind closed doors on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral of

The 15-year-old is accused of starting a fire in a school dormitory, killing 19, after her cell phone was confiscated.A teenage girl has been charged with 19 counts of murder for allegedly starting a deadly fire in a school dormitory in the South American nation of Guyana. The 15-year-old student

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew this weekend after Kosovo’s police raided Serb-dominated areas in the region’s north and seized local municipality buildings.Violent clashes between Kosovo’s police and NATO-led peacekeepers on one side and local Serbs on the other have left several people injured on both sides. The situation

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Mauricio Funes, who currently lives in Nicaragua, denies the charges and says 2012 truce was brokered by the church.A court in El Salvador has sentenced former President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison for negotiating with gangs during his administration. The sentence on Monday follows a trial that began

Appeals court sentences 14 others to life in prison for campaign including beheading Egyptian Christians in 2015.A Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison for their role in a deadly ISIL (ISIS) campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and

The ‘criminal conspiracy’ case is related to the procurement and licensed manufacturing of 123 advanced jet trainers.India has filed a graft case against Britain’s BAE Systems plc and Rolls-Royce Holdings for “criminal conspiracy” in the procurement and licensed manufacturing of 123 advanced jet trainers, according to a federal police document.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has held talks with his Venezuelan counterpart, as Nicolas Maduro made his first visit to Brazil in years in a sign of warming ties between the two South American nations.Maduro was welcomed by an honour guard at the Brazilian presidential palace in the

The debt-ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would suspend the United States’ debt limit through 2025 to avoid a federal default while limiting government spending, but its details are unlikely to be popular with progressive Democrats or hard-right Republicans.The Democratic president and Republican speaker are

Package imposes trade, financial and technology sanctions against Iran and stops Tehran from using Ukraine’s airspace.The Ukrainian parliament has approved a sanctions package against Iran, a Russian ally it accuses of sending weapons to Moscow during its more than year-long invasion of Ukraine. The measures were approved on Monday, a

The conflict has inflicted widespread destruction on residential areas in Khartoum and its adjacent cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North.Gunshots and artillery fire have rocked the Sudanese capital as two warring sides are under pressure to extend a shaky ceasefire, which ends on Monday, in their six-week fight for control