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Aisling Reidy, legal advisor at Human Rights Watch, says the significance of the arrest warrant for Russia's brutal ruler Vladimir Putin "should not be downplayed"

Formula One is back in Saudi Arabia one year after a missile strike hit an oil depot near the track during race week

Iranian security forces rearrested prominent activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian hours after she walked free from jail chanting slogans against supreme leader Ali Khamenei, activists said Thursday. Gholian, 28, was freed Wednesday from Tehran's Evin prison after spending over four years behind bars following a conviction related to her reporting…

It’s been six months since the latest spark ignited mass protests in Iran — the death of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa (Jina) Amini in morality police custody after she was arrested for allegedly failing to wear her hijab properly.

Such attacks can look like "fireworks" but could in fact be dangerous incendiary weapons, experts warn, which burn at around 2,000 degrees Celsius and cause excruciatingly painful burns to the skin.

The report is based on more than 500 interviews as well as satellite images and visits to detention sites and graves

Conservative former Cabinet minister David Davis accused ministers of making ‘only low-level attempts’ to talk to the Saudis about the case.

For a long time, Kamal Haasan’s fans lovingly called him Oscar Nayagan, the Oscar hero, because even though he’d never won an Oscar, he was considered the most deserving actor to potentially receive such a prestigious and popular award. But all this changed after AR Rahman’s double Oscar win for…

The brother of Mustafa al-Khayyat, one of 81 men executed by Saudi Arabia on one day last year, has accused F1 of complicity in sportswashing