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Iran‘s theocratic regime has violently crushed peaceful protests demanding greater religious freedom in the year since the killing of Mahsa Zhina Amini in the custody of the government’s “morality police” final Sept. 16, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom stated in a brand new report launched Tuesday. ...

Ex-Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep has been banned for 4 years for anti-doping rule violations.The 31-year-old Romanian tennis star has been banned for 2 separate doping offences, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) stated. Halep has vowed to clear "my name of these false allegations", and plans to enchantment.The former world primary had been provisionally suspended since October 2022 after testing optimistic for banned blood-booster Roxadustat on the US Open final 12 months.She was subsequently charged with irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport and each expenses have been upheld following an unbiased tribunal. The panel concluded Halep "had committed intentional anti-doping rule violations".Halep, who gained Wimbledon in 2019 after b...

SEOUL — North Korean chief Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, a state of affairs that has the Biden administration and its ally in South Korea fuming however powerless to forestall. ...

More than 70 crocodiles have escaped from a farm in southern China after rainstorms hit the area.Residents in Maoming, a metropolis close to the coast in western Guangdong province, have been advised to remain inside till the animals are caught. An emergency official stated that 69 grownup crocodiles and 6 juveniles had escaped.Some have been captured however the operation is being hampered by the depth of the lake they're in. Further west, seven individuals died and three are lacking after a number of landslides within the metropolis of Yulin within the Guangxi area. The official Xinhua News Agency stated the landslides have been attributable to heavy rain on Sunday and Monday.Read extra from Sky News:Chinese state media censors its personal videoHow fear...

Russia fired cruise missiles in opposition to a civilian cargo ship within the Black Sea final month, however Ukrainian air protection forces thwarted the assault, British navy officers stated Monday. ...

Iran's president has stated his authorities will determine the way it will spend $6bn (£4.8bn) launched by the United States underneath a prisoner trade deal.The US has issued a sanctions waiver for worldwide banks to switch the billions in frozen Iranian funds - paving the way in which for the discharge of a British nationwide and 4 Americans held in Iran. The belongings will likely be transferred from South Korea to Qatar, which Iran will then have the ability to use for getting humanitarian items.But in an unique interview with NBC News, Sky's US companion community, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stated: "This money belongs to the Islamic Republic of Iran and naturally we will decide, the Islamic Republic of Iran, will decide to spend wherever we need it."Asked by NBC Ne...

BEIJING (AP) — Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at the very least seven individuals and allowed dozens of crocodiles to flee from a farm. ...

Five kids who travelled to Pakistan with the daddy and step-mother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif can be taken into the custody of the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau, a choose has dominated.The kids, aged between one and 13, have been recovered from the home of Sara's grandfather within the northeastern metropolis of Jhelum on Monday after a raid by native police. Their grandfather, Mohammad Sharif, advised Sky News the kids had been with him since they arrived in Pakistan over a month in the past and he felt it was his "duty to protect them".He had hoped they might be capable of come again residence following the court docket hearings in Jhelum in the present day, however Senior Judge Javed Iqbal Khokar dominated they need to be taken into custody by Pakistani authorities.P...

CAIRO (AP) — Rescue groups struggled amid devastation in japanese Libya, retrieving a whole lot of our bodies from the rubble in a coastal metropolis that has been inundated by devastating floods, a humanitarian company mentioned Tuesday. Authorities estimated that as many as 2,000 individuals are believed lifeless within the metropolis of Derna alone. ...

Chinese state media seems to have censored itself after taking down a video that was supposed to advertise the host metropolis of this month's Asian Games.The People's Daily hoped to indicate literary hyperlinks to Hangzhou, however one poem by Lin Sheng brought on a little bit of a stir. Dating again to the twelfth century, the piece of labor is believed to criticise Song Dynasty rulers for being corrupt and ignoring the wants of regular folks.Posted on Weibo, it quickly attracted the eye of eagle-eyed members of the general public.One particular person posted that the poem's theme was to criticise and mock "the corruption and incompetence of rulers, and the indulgence of high-ranking officials". According to China Digital Times, the video additionally included one other poe...