U.N agency, human rights groups rally to the cause of woman awaiting execution/ They say she was a victim of sexual assault and killed her attacker in self-defense in 2007/ The man who was killed was a member of Iran's Intelligence Ministry/ Under Iran's Islamic law, the family of the slain man ...
GENEVA (AP) — A United Nations human rights investigator is urging Iran to stop the planned execution of a woman said to be the victim of a sexual assault over concerns that she didn't receive a fair trial. The U.N. human rights office in Geneva says Reyhaneh Jabbari is reportedly due to be ...
A UN human rights monitor on Monday urged Tehran to halt the planned execution of an Iranian woman for the alleged murder of a former intelligence official, saying her trial had been deeply flawed. The case of Reyhaneh Jabbari, who claims she acted in self-defence after a sexual assault, raises ...
The White House has informed Congress it wants to send more than $1bn (£800m) in weapons to Israel, officials say. The package would include tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles, according to Reuters news agency. The plan - confirmed by a congressional aide to CBS, the BBC's US ...
Israel and Egypt are locked in a row over the Rafah border crossing, blaming each other for its continued closure as Gaza's humanitarian crisis worsens. Israeli forces have taken control of the Gaza side of the crossing. On Tuesday Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he had told the UK ...
assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to and using his powerful position to attack the hush money case against the former president as an illegitimate “sham.” It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The turning his Republican Party ...
Reporters always carry some kind of baggage with them when they head off to cover a story - whether it's the tools of their trade, a camera or a microphone, or something less tangible, such as memories of a past encounter or story. It was on a recent deployment that the BBC's Middle East analyst ...
The body of a man who had been traveling down the Colorado River on a wooden raft has been found in Grand Canyon National Park, officials said. Thomas Robinson, a 58-year-old man from Santa Fe, New Mexico, was believed to have attempted to travel down the Colorado River on a wooden raft with his ...
A UN car pictured in the Gaza Strip in April this year/ The United Nations says one of its staff members was killed and another injured as they travelled to a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday. It said the workers were travelling in a UN vehicle to the European Hospital in Rafah when it was ...
The Kansas City area has one of the most deadly roads in the country, according to an analysis of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Interstate 670 had the third most traffic deaths per mile of any road in the country, an analysis by Florida law firm Also known as the ...
Judge Judy Sheindlin arrives at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif., on May 5, 2019. Sheindlin sued the parent company of the National Enquirer and InTouch Weekly on Monday, May 13, 2024, for a story that she said falsely claimed that she was trying to help the Menendez ...
used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers. Harris was participating in a conversation moderated by actor and comedian Jimmy O. Yang when he asked her what it means to be the first vice ...
Lebanon is worried that Israel might intensify its offensive against the Lebanon-based Shia militant group Hezbollah, the country’s foreign minister has said, as the conflict between the two sides escalates along the border. In an interview with the BBC, Abdallah Bou Habib said it was unlikely ...