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Canada to ban leaders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards from entry

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami speaks during the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran Nov. 4, 2021.

Canada on Friday said it would ban the top leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from entering the country and promised more targeted sanctions over the treatment of women in Iran and the downing of a civilian airliner in 2020. Iran has faced increasing international condemnation and nationwide protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the …

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Multiple explosions rock eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv

Smoke rises after big explosions in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022.

A series of explosions rocked the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending towering plumes of illuminated smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The blasts came hours after Russia concentrated attacks in its increasingly troubled invasion of Ukraine on areas it illegally annexed, while the death toll …

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Tiny mountain kingdom in southern Africa, Lesotho, to begin vote counting

A man wearing a blanket casts his vote at a polling station in Maseru, Lesotho, on Oct. 7, 2022. Voters across Lesotho are heading to the polls Friday to elect a leader to find solutions to high unemployment and crime. 

Vote counting has begun in southern Africa’s tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho following a day when thousands of citizens in urban and rural areas voted to elect the country’s 120 legislators. Soon after the polls closed, electoral officials were seen verifying voters’ rolls at various polling stations. The Independent Electoral Commission will announce the official results, which some expect will …

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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine

Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is going to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, the award’s judges said Friday. Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the judges wanted to honor “three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbor countries Belarus, …

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Russia submits objections to Ukraine genocide case in World Court

A general view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, December 9, 2019.

Russia has submitted preliminary objections to a genocide case against Moscow brought by Ukraine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Thursday. At the ICJ, the United Nations highest court for disputes between states, parties can file preliminary objections if they believe the court does not have jurisdiction in a case. A general view of the International Court of Justice …

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US slaps top Iranian officials with sanctions over censorship, violence against protesters

FILE - Protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sept. 21, 2022.  

The United States sanctioned several top Iranian officials for censorship and violence against protesters, who have taken to the streets in recent weeks following the death of a 22-year-old woman while in custody of the regime’s morality police.  The new sanctions target seven Iranian leaders, including the country’s Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi, as well as Iran’s Minister of …

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France pushes for ‘energy sobriety’ ahead of possible winter energy shortage

The "On the Spot" collective in France turns off lights at a Paris storefront during a night of action on July 29, 2022, in an effort to save energy ahead of a possible energy crisis in Europe.

Under the watchword “Every gesture counts,” the French government launched an energy-saving drive Thursday to get the country through the winter without natural gas from Russia and closer to the European Union targets of reaching climate neutrality by 2050. The French push for “energy sobriety,” months in the planning, dovetails with gas- and electricity-saving drives taking root across Europe. The …

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Burkina Faso coup: ECOWAS mediator ‘satisfied’ after meeting new military leader

CNN  —  The mediator sent to Burkina Faso by West Africa’s main political and economic bloc ECOWAS, Mahamadou Issoufou, on Tuesday said he was satisfied by a meeting with the country’s new military leader Ibrahim Traore. Issoufou added that the 15-member bloc would continue accompanying Burkina Faso’s transition to constitutional rule after the country was hit by its second military …

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Russian journalist who fled house arrest says she is innocent

A woman who says to be the employee of Russia's state TV Channel One, Marina Ovsyannikova, speaks in a statement recorded before holding up an anti-war sign live on air, in this still grab taken from a video uploaded March 14, 2022. 

Oct 5 (Reuters) – Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, accused of spreading fake news after staging a series of lone protests against the war in Ukraine, said on Wednesday she had fled house arrest because she had no case to answer. A woman who says to be the employee of Russia’s state TV Channel One, Marina Ovsyannikova, speaks in a …

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