Anadolu via Getty Images The UN's human rights chief has urged the US to conclude its investigation and publish its findings into a deadly strike on an Iranian primary school that happened on the first day of the war last month.
The bombing "evoked a visceral horror", Volker Türk said at an urgent UN Human Rights Council debate, adding that there "must be justice for the terrible harm done
Reuters US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has joined a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in France for talks in which the US-Israeli war with Iran will be the main focus.
Rubio is expected to face pressure to de-escalate the conflict as concerns continue to grow over its impact on the world economy.
The other G7 countries – the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – are wary of
The US Senate has voted to end a partial 40-day government shutdown, approving funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - with the exception of immigration enforcement.
The almost six-week funding lapse has seen knock-on disruption at US airports. Security workers' salaries are paid by the DHS, and hundreds have quit since the shutdown began.
Democrats had refused to agree a funding deal without reforms to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (
Nawal Al-Maghafi , Senior international investigations correspondent and
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BBC A mother stands by the rubble, crying out for her daughter.
For days she has been waiting for rescue workers to dig through the flattened remains of what was once her daughter's flat in Resalat, a residential district in eastern Tehran.
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Reuters South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has downplayed reports that his invitation to the forthcoming G7 summit in France has been withdrawn, saying non-attendance by a country outside the bloc should surprise no-one.
Reports on Thursday claimed the US had put huge pressure on France to rescind Ramaphosa's invitation to the summit scheduled for June
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EPA A humpback whale has freed itself from a sandbank near the German coastal city of Lübeck, after a series of rescue attempts.
Rescue teams now hope the whale will swim out of the shallow waters of Lübeck Bay and into the wider sea.
Reports at first light that the whale had swum off the sandbank were confirmed by Stephanie Gross from the Institute for Terrestrial and
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BBC On Valentine's Day, Joy Kalekye says she received a call from a friend who sounded really worried. She told her to check social media because someone had posted a video of her.
The clip shows Kalekye, then a 19-year-old student, standing on her own by the side of a busy road in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, looking
Front Line Defenders Singaporean authorities refused entry to a Malaysian scholar earlier this week because of her political activism, with its home affairs ministry calling her an "undesirable visitor".
Fadiah Nadwa Fikri had "encouraged some youths in Singapore to adopt her brand of radical advocacy", the ministry said in a statement on Friday, without specifying what she advocated for.
Fadiah is a human rights lawyer and anti-corruption activist in Malaysia, according to
Getty Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sought to reassure Australians that the country's fuel supply remains "secure" as prices soar and following reports of panic buying and petrol stations running dry since the start of the Iran war.
"The longer this war goes on, the greater the impact will be. But we continue to act to prepare and shield Australians from the worst of it," Albanese told reporters on Friday
Alan Little Senior correspondent