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How US sanctions crippled lives of Iranians Trump says he wants to ‘help’

US sanctions have damaged Iran's economy, which was the reason the protests broke out in the first place....

3dAl JazeeraPoliticsImpact

Honduras rejects ‘illegal’ recount order of vote won by Trump-backed Nasry Asfura

Honduras electoral authorities rejected on Monday an order by the outgoing president to recount November’s election won by Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura. Asfura, a conservative businessman, was ...

3dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Live: UN rights chief 'horrified' by Iranian crackdown amid reports of hundreds killed

UN ​human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...

3dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Netanyahu says the announced start of Gaza ceasefire's next phase is a 'declarative move'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cast the U.S. announcement that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would advance to its second phase as largely symbolic, raising questions about how its more ...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Gaza is entering second phase of Trump's 20-point ceasefire plan, envoy Witkoff says

Under the first phase of the three-phase deal, Hamas released all but one hostage it was holding in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians who were held in Israeli prisons....

1dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

Greenland 'can count on us,' European Commission chief says ahead of White House talks

Von der Leyen's comments come as US officials will host the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers at the White House for crunch talks later on Wednesday....

2dEuronewsPoliticsImpact

Iranian on trial in France in case that could help release of French hostages

With the situation tense over in Iran, one of the country's national's is facing justice here in France. Mahdieh Esfandiari, a professional translator, is on trial in Paris, facing accusations of prom...

3dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Qatar confirms personnel movement out of key US air base as a precaution amid regional tensions

Qatar has confirmed “the departure of certain personnel from Al Udeid Air Base” due to current regional tensions, after reports that the US military is evacuating a part of its key base as Washington ...

2dEuronewsPolitics

2025 was deadliest year for Ukrainian civilians since start of Russia's all-out war, UN says

War-related violence in Ukraine killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 last year, a 31% rise in the number of victims from 2024, a UN monitor said....

3dEuronewsworld_newsImpact

Passengers flying to Paris spent 21 hours stranded in the remote nation of Turkmenistan before a spare plane came to rescue them

A monument of Turkmenistan's former president, in Ashgabat. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images An Air France flight from India to Paris diverted to Turkmenistan. It was already running almost a ...

1dBusiness Insiderworld_newsImpact

Arms makers say that the fast-moving war in Ukraine is changing how they design and upgrade weapons

Milrem Robotics is among the companies making its weapons so they can be upgraded as easily as possible. Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images The battlefield in Ukraine is changing constantly, and weapon...

1dBusiness InsiderTechnologyImpact

US delegation seeks to reassure Denmark and Greenland amid Trump seizure threats

A bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers will meet with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Friday to reassure them of congressional support despite President Donald Trump's threats to seize the Ar...

7hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Iran: Activists report more than 2,500 dead after brutal crackdown

Activists report that more than 2,400 people have been killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, according to updated figures from the Human Rights Activist News Agency, which says most of th...

2dFrance 24world_newsImpact

Amnesty calls for global diplomatic action amid unprecedented mass killings to crush dissent

Amnesty International Iran Researcher Raha Bahreini paints a harrowing portrait of a nation under siege by its own government. Amid an internet blackout, reports of systemic, indiscriminate violence h...

21hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Trump’s audacious imperialism will only propel China’s rise

US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been held up as an example of American military power. As Venezuela is not a producer of fentanyl – despite the United ...

3dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Hong Kong’s Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao to cease operations in Canada

Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao is winding up its operations in Canada by the end of this month, marking the closure of all newsrooms run by the city’s major print publications in the North American coun...

3dSouth China Morning Postworld_newsImpact

Ukrainians brave winter cold as Russia targets energy infrastructure

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes are either entirely without heating, or with severely reduced heating. This, as temperatures rarely rise above minus 10. It’s the result of Russia’s campaign o...

3hFrance 24world_newsImpact

Nigeria reopens some schools in the north despite kidnap threats

Schools across parts ​of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered ⁠by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...

3dFrance 24education

How Iran’s regime retook the streets

Details emerge of unprecedented crackdown, raising questions over future of protest movement...

12hFinancial TimesPoliticsImpact

Urgent appeal amid deadly crackdown: Iran Human Rights presses UN Security Council to act

François Picard welcomes Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of Iran Human Rights NGO. He offers a rare quantified data-driven-account of fatalities in the current Irani...

6hFrance 24PoliticsImpact
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