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Criminalizing marital rape would be “excessively harsh,” the ...

2024-10-12T02:47:47Z

Criminalizing marital rape would be “excessively harsh,” the Indian government has said, in a blow to campaigners ahead of a long-awaited Supreme Court decision that will affect hundreds of millions of people.

In India, it is not considered rape if a man forces sex or sexual acts on his wife, as long as she is over 18, due to an exception in a British colonial-era law.

The U.S. announced new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector in ...

2024-10-12T02:39:28Z

The U.S. announced new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector in response to its Oct. 1 attack on Israel when it fired roughly 180 missiles into the country.

Iran said the barrage was retaliation for a series of devastating blows Israel has landed in recent weeks against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has been firing rockets into Israel since the war in Gaza began.

Withdrawing the United States from the IMF and World Bank would ...

2024-10-11T17:24:23Z

Withdrawing the United States from the IMF and World Bank would be “a step backward,” a top U.S. Treasury official said Friday, defending the organizations before a presidential election that could cast uncertainty about America’s future in them.

In advance of the institutions’ annual meetings this month, Jay Shambaugh, the undersecretary for international affairs, alluded to a Project 2025 proposal for the U.S. to pull out of the IMF and World Bank if Donald Trump wins.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said it was no longer ...

2024-08-24T22:18:45Z

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said it was no longer possible to revive the 2015 nuclear deal because “international conditions have changed” and “some conditions set out in the pact itself have expired.”

1.6 million doses of polio vaccines arrived in the Gaza Strip on ...

2024-08-24T00:27:32Z

1.6 million doses of polio vaccines arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday, awaiting a humanitarian pause that will allow the immunization of thousands of children under 10 years of age who could be affected.

A change that will affect 700 million travellers: the European ...

2024-08-22T21:07:28Z

A change that will affect 700 million travellers: the European Union will make border controls stricter
The SES will change the current method of manual stamping of passports to an automated record that will collect data such as the name of the traveller, the type of travel document, biometric data (fingerprints and facial images) and the date and place of entry and exit from the EU territory.

The helicopter crash that killed then-Iranian President Ebrahim ...

2024-08-21T16:48:35Z

The helicopter crash that killed then-Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in May was blamed on adverse weather conditions and the aircraft's inability to withstand the excess weight it was carrying on board, a security source told Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.