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Three Iranian women footballers reject asylum in Australia, opt to return home
Reuters, Published on 15/03/2026
» SYDNEY - Three members of the Iranian women's soccer team who had sought asylum in Australia have decided to instead return to Iran, the Australian government said on Sunday.
Iran FM in Geneva for US talks, as Guards begin drills in Hormuz Strait
AFP, Published on 16/02/2026
» GENEVA - Iran's foreign minister arrived in Geneva ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States, as the Revolutionary Guards on Monday begin military drills in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
'Like a horror movie': 770 km of fear for those fleeing Sudan's El-Fasher
AFP, Published on 14/11/2025
» AL DABBAH (SUDAN) - Survivors of the bloody takeover of El-Fasher walked for days through the desert, past bodies and armed men who humiliated them, desperate to escape the Sudanese city now overrun by paramilitary forces.
Families separated, children killed as survivors flee Sudan's 'apocalyptic' El-Fasher
AFP, Published on 02/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - Survivors fleeing the Sudanese city of El-Fasher told AFP on Saturday that paramilitary fighters separated families and killed children in front of their parents, with tens of thousands still trapped following the city's fall.
Moroccan whistle language strives for survival
AFP, Published on 25/09/2025
» TILOUGUIT, Morocco - In the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural flight.
UK pensioner, student arrested for backing Palestine Action
AFP, Published on 07/08/2025
» LONDON — Pensioner Marji Mansfield never imagined she would end up suspected of terrorism for protesting against the banning of a pro-Palestinian group.
Iran holds funeral for slain commanders and scientists
Reuters, Published on 28/06/2025
» Large crowds of mourners dressed in black lined streets in Iran’s capital Tehran as the country held a funeral on Saturday for top military commanders, nuclear scientists and some of the civilians killed during this month’s aerial war with Israel.
Malala Yousafzai 'overwhelmed and happy' to be back in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 11/01/2025
» ISLAMABAD — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was "overwhelmed" to be back in her native Pakistan Saturday, as she arrived for a global summit on girls' education in the Islamic world.
Israel kills 40 Palestinians in Gaza airstrikes
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2024
» CAIRO - Israeli forces stepped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 40 people, Palestinian medics said, in further battle with Hamas-led militants as Israel braced for potential wider war in the region.
Promised aid to Gaza is stalled by wrangling, as conditions worsen
New York Times, Published on 21/10/2023
» CAIRO — Two days after United States President Joe Biden said he had secured Israel’s agreement to allow food, water and medicine into the besieged Gaza Strip, and a day after aid groups were told their trucks would cross the border on Friday, nothing budged, as the powers involved continued to haggle over the details, while conditions within Gaza grew more dire.