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While state-controlled television broadcast images of lines of voters, others across the capital of Tehran saw largely empty polling stations.

The sinking of the Rubymar, which carried a cargo of fertilizer and previously leaked fuel, could cause ecological damage to the Red Sea.

Voting in the National Assembly to elect the new prime minister would be held on Sunday, according to the National Assembly Secretariat.

Israel has "more or less accepted" the proposal, including a six-week ceasefire in Gaza and the release of vulnerable hostages by Hamas, according to a US govt official.

This weekend's party is an elaborate pre-wedding ceremony for younger son Anant and fiancee Radhika Merchant, the daughter of wealthy pharmaceutical moguls.

A 28-year-old serving police constable who had previously been in a relationship with Baird has been charged with two counts of murder.

“This massacre was perpetrated on starving people who had collected food from aid trucks, which had entered the area.

Some 15,000 candidates are vying for a seat in the 290-member parliament, formally known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Thursday's incident added to a Palestinian death toll which the Gaza health ministry said had topped 30,000, mainly women and children.

Yoon and Kim’s conflicting comments on unification come after Korean animosities have run high for more than two years, with North Korea ramping up missile tests and South Korea expanding military drills with the US in a tit-for-tat cycle.…

Addressing overflowing halls in Virginia, Haley hammered Trump for being all about himself and alleged that he cares little about the country and its people.

Fernando Haddad said tax evasion can be resolved through international cooperation so that “these few individuals make their contribution to our societies and to the planet’s sustainable development.”

By embracing a close relationship with Microsoft, OpenAI and its top executives have set that pact "aflame" and are "perverting" the company's mission, Musk alleges in the lawsuit.

China may well be the “pacing challenge” that many in the US believe. But it also faces significant internal challenges that often go unrecognised in evaluating the country’s comprehensive power.

Galloway, long accused by critics of stoking community tensions, put the Gaza conflict front and centre of his campaign in Rochdale, which has a 30 percent Muslim population.

The Sunak-led Conservative government had earlier only revealed a 290 million-pound commitment. But new figures, costing nearly half a billion pounds, opened the plan to wider scrutiny from critics.

Navalny's supporters said several churches in Moscow refused to hold the funeral for the man who crusaded against official corruption and organised big protests.

Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy, is a key trading partner of the US and a major tourist destination but faces huge challenges from illegal migration and drug-related violence.

The US president said he did not yet have clarity on what happened in Gaza City earlier Thursday, when one of the worst single incidents of the nearly five-month war occurred.

By staying in the race longer than any other major candidate, Haley has highlighted Trump's political problems with key constituencies in their party and suggested that he is a "sinking ship."