Burkina Faso’s Government has expelled the top UN diplomat in the country who was a former UN official in Sri Lanka. Barbara Manzi, the United Nations’ resident and humanitarian coordinator in the West African nation, was declared persona non grata, the foreign affairs ministry said in a statement. Burkina Faso has been wracked by violence […]

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Iran says it has publicly hanged a 23-year-old in what is the second execution linked to the recent anti-government protests. Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged early on Monday in the city of Mashhad, the judiciary said. A court convicted him of “enmity against God” after finding he had stabbed to death two members of the […]

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Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country’s attorney general says. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri’s comments, yet to be confirmed by other agencies, were made at an event on Sunday. Iran has seen months of protests over the death of a young woman in custody. Mahsa […]

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