Iran court jails ex-ministers over graft
TEHRAN, Mar 04 (AFP): An Iranian court has sentenced two former ministers to prison over a multi-billion-dollar corruption case involving imported tea, the judiciary said Tuesday.The case, known in Iran as the Debsh Tea Scandal, was opened in 2023 and implicated more than 60 people, involving a total of $3.7...
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Russia-US talks on Ukraine not immediate
MOSCOW, Mar 04 (Reuters): The Kremlin said in remarks published on Tuesday that the next round of Russia-US talks on ending the war in Ukraine is unlikely to happen before the embassies of both countries resume normal operations."Unlikely," Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of President Vladimir Putin, told RIA state...
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Two die as car drives into crowd in Germany
BERLIN, Mar 04 (Reuters): A car drove into a crowd in the western German city of Mannheim on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 11 others, overshadowing carnival celebrations in the region where police had been on alert for attacks.Police detained the driver, who appeared to have ploughed...
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Chinese compulsory second foreign language in S Arabia
RIYADH, Mar 04 (AFP): With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning the language at school.Mandarin's entry into public schools is the latest sign of growing ties between...
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One-year-olds also raped during Sudan civil war, says UN
LONDON, Mar 04 (BBC): Armed men are raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one during Sudan's civil war, says the UN children's agency, Unicef.So traumatised are the survivors that some say they have attempted to end their lives. Mass sexual violence has been widely documented as a weapon...
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