Iran has released Australian couple Jolie King and Mark Firkin and dropped the charges against them, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Saturday./ July for taking illegal photos with a drone, according to a source with knowledge of the situation./ "For Jolie and for Mark, the ordeal ...
MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian couple detained in Iran for several months have been released and are being reunited with their families after charges against them were dropped, the Australian authorities confirmed on Saturday. “I’m pleased to be able to advise that the Iranian government ...
for flying a drone near a military zone without a license./ Tehran dropped its charges against Australian-British blogger Jolie King and her fiancé Mark Firkin, who both returned to Australia. They had been held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran since early July./ King and Firkin were ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ British-Australian Jolie King and Australian Mark Firkin have been released from prison in Iran A British-Australian woman and her Australian boyfriend have been released from an Iranian jail, Australia's government has said. Jolie King and ...
olie King, a British Australian travel blogger who was imprisoned in Iran with her fiancé, has been released from prison. Marise Payne, the Australian foreign minister, said on Saturday Ms King and Mark Firkin had been freed and all charges against them had been dropped. Ms Payne said they were ...
The UK has suspended talks on a trade deal with Israel, summoned the country's ambassador and imposed fresh sanctions on West Bank settlers, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy called the military escalation in Gaza "morally unjustifiable". The move follows warnings of starvation in Gaza after ...
month-old Niveen needed open-heart surgery outside Gaza/ In a makeshift tent in al-Shati refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, 33-year-old Enas Abu Daqqa holds her tiny baby daughter Niveen in her arms. A fan hums constantly behind her to break the morning heat. Enas worries that ...
More than 100 people were reportedly killed in sectarian clashes between Syrian pro-government forces and Druze gunmen earlier this month/ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for Syria's transitional authorities to be supported, warning that the country could be only weeks away from ...
The UN says no aid has yet been distributed in Gaza despite aid lorries starting to cross the border after an 11-week blockade. Israeli officials said 93 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday, carrying aid including flour, baby food, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical drugs. But the UN said, despite ...
Israel has intensified its offensive on Gaza in recent days/ At least 38 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip during a half-hour period overnight, according to Palestinian medics. Israeli warplanes struck several locations, including a school in ...
IDF attacks in Gaza have killed thousands since Israel ended a ceasefire in March/ Israel went to war after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 armed with an arsenal of weapons mostly paid for, supplied and then resupplied by the United States. Its other allies gave Israel something just as ...
Aid lorries were photographed arriving at the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing with southern Gaza on Monday morning/ Israel says it has allowed five UN lorries carrying humanitarian aid, including baby food, into the Gaza Strip after 11 weeks of blockade. The UN's humanitarian chief ...
Britain and Iran have summoned each other's envoys after three Iranians were charged with spying in the UK. Three Iranian men were arrested on 3 May and appeared in court in London on Saturday on charges of spying for the Islamic republic. Iran's IRNA news agency said the British charge ...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has ordered residents of Khan Younis to evacuate as it prepares to launch an "unprecedented attack". People were ordered to move towards al-Mawasi in the west of the strip, in one of the largest evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military in recent months. An ...
An injured man transported to Kamal Adwan Hospital/ Israeli forces have besieged a hospital in northern Gaza as they continue an offensive to seize territory in the Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry has said. Medical staff and patients at the Indonesian Hospital, in Beit Lahia, came under ...