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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009.

The world’s worst recorded Ebola outbreak, which has killed 11,300 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it began in December 2013, has set back progress on maternal health in the country, the report’s lead researcher Susan Jones said.

Bahar Mustafa – a student diversity officer at Goldsmiths, University of London – initially caused anger for asking white men not to attend a students’ union meeting intended for ethnic minority and “non-binary” women.

“Our prayers and thoughts go out to the family members and we will continue to do all we can to support them”.

A failed military coup in Burkina Faso last month cost its flagging economy more than $50 million in lost revenue, the finance minister said on Wednesday.

She continued by saying that it is not in the national interest for “immigration of the scale we have experienced over the past decade”.

Councils will be allowed to keep the rates they collect and use the money to invest in infrastructure, making their local areas a more attractive place for businesses to thrive.

According to local sheikhs, the latest incident saw ISIS executing tribesmen who had family members fighting alongside the Iraqi military in the area around the Anbar capital of Ramadi, which is under ISIS control and being contested by Iraqi forces.

Several countries, especially eastern European ones, have balked at the EU’s attempts to impose quotas for taking in refugees. So far, about 2,000 have signed the petition calling for the plebiscite. Germany and France stand ready…It is not possible to resolve the...

Greece’s economy will suffer a less severe recession this year than its global lenders assumed in drafting the country’s new bailout program, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Tuesday. The conversation also touched on the topic of promotion of economic cooperation.

SHEIKHPURA, BIHAR: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of being more bothered about the presentation of his foreign visits and his clothes than the plight of farmers or the poor in India.

The tilting of the balance in favour of Sri Lanka is also reinforced by the reference to a Sri Lankan judicial mechanism in the resolution.

The search for survivors from the sinking of the El Faro cargo ship will be called off at sunset Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed.

Chief selector Haroon Rashid said there was “unanimity” among the panel over picking the player, as requested by team manager Intikhab Alam, following impressive performances with both bat and ball by Malik in the recent series of one-day internationals and T20...

Georgia earned back to back Rugby World Cup victories for the first time in their history when they held on to beat Namibia 16-17 at at Sandy Park in Exeter.