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The United States has announced new sanctions against the Iranian government in an effort to force authorities to halt their ...

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s scheduled January 25-28 visit to China, accompanied by over 20 Finnish business leaders ...

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Uganda’s electoral commission has declared President Yoweri Museveni as the winner of the January 15 elections, securing his ...

By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. rights body condemned Iran on Friday for rights ...

Speaking at the start of a UN Human Rights Council urgent meeting on the situation in Iran, Volker Turk urges the authorities in Tehran “to reconsider, to pull back, and to end their brutal repression ...

Iran's foreign minister claimed that “terrorist elements from the outside” were seeking to drag the US into a conflict. Even ...