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20 December 2023, 04:49 GMT Updated 3 hours ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, File photo of women protesting against so-called honour killings in Pakistan Saman Abbas’s body was found at a farmhouse in northern Italy in November 2022, 18 months after she disappeared. Her father, Shabbar Abbas, was …

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched her campaign for a fifth term Wednesday, as opposition parties called for civil disobedience and said the January 7 polls would not be fair.“If I can form government again, we will turn the entire of Bangladesh into a prosperous and developed country,” Hasina told …

PARIS — The Palace of Versailles has been evacuated following a bomb threat. The popular tourist attraction, just outside Paris, carried out the evacuation at 10.30am this morning. Palace authorities took to X, formerly Twitter, announcing: ‘We are evacuating visitors from the monument and we will reopen as soon as …

By Emery Makumeno BBC News, Kinshasa 20 December 2023, 02:03 GMT Updated 23 minutes ago Image caption, Some 44 million people are registered to vote in a country roughly four times the size of France Voting in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s high-stakes presidential election has been marred by lengthy …

At least 10 people were killed in floods after intense rainfall in southern India, local media reported Wednesday, weeks after a cyclone triggered intense flooding in the same areas.Hundreds are stranded in the state of Tamil Nadu as water submerged roads, with the airforce dropping 10 tonnes of emergency supplies …

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s government announced Wednesday that it was imposing a ban on all Israeli owned and flagged ships, as well as any vessels headed to Israel, from docking at its ports. The announcement by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s office said the ban would take place with immediate effect …

19 December 2023 Updated 15 minutes ago Image caption, Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said the reform represented an “ideological victory” for her party The French parliament has passed legislation toughening France’s immigration policy after months of political wrangling. The amended bill was backed by both President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist …

Hospital doctors in England begin their longest strike action yet on Wednesday in a move that health bosses fear will pile pressure on services at the busiest time of year.Junior doctors — those below consultant level — join picket lines from 0700 GMT to the same time on Saturday in …

KYIV — Ukraine’s military wants to mobilise up to 500,000 extra people, President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed, as the war with Russia nears a two-year mark. At a news conference in Kyiv, he said his commanders were seeking “450,000-500,000 individuals”, admitting this was a “sensitive” and costly issue. He said …

The head of Hamas’ political bureau says the Palestinian resistance stands “firm on the battlefield” despite two and a half months of Israeli war crimes in the besieged Gaza Strip. In a meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in the Qatari capital Doha on Wednesday, Ismail Haniyeh said the volume of the Israeli …