Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ An Iranian supporter outside the Kazan Arena in 2018./ Women in Iran will be allowed to attend men's soccer matches beginning with a World Cup qualifier next month, according to FIFA./ Football's world ...
Soccer's governing body FIFA says an inspection visit to Iran has shown "no noteworthy operational obstacles" to lifting the country's 40-year ban and letting women attend a World Cup qualifying game next month./ After meeting government and soccer officials in Tehran this week, FIFA says it ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Women cheering at a screening of a match at last year's World Cup - one of the very rare occasions female fans were admitted alongside men Women in Iran will be able to attend football matches, starting with a World Cup qualifier next ...
UN Security Council votes to adopt Trump's Gaza peace plan/ The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a US-drafted resolution, which endorses Donald Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza. Included in the plan is the establishment of an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which the US says ...
Safa Younes is now 33 - she was the only person in her family to survive the shootings in Haditha/ "This is the room where my whole family was killed," says Safa Younes. Bullet holes pepper the front door to the house in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where she grew up. Inside the back bedroom, a ...
Water levels in Tehran's Amirkabir dam are at 8% of capacity, officials say/ Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country's worst drought in decades. Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on ...
is now inspiring her to give away billions/ MacKenzie Scott has donated $19 billion to different charities and organizations in five years./ MacKenzie Scott has been one of the most generous philanthropists during the past few years, and an episode in college may help explain why. founder Jeff ...
founded Seraphim Space in 2015 and recently celebrated its 10th anniversary./ As CEO of the world’s leading global space investor, Mark Boggett can see anything up to 200 diverse opportunities land on his desk every month. Since the pioneering space tech fund was launched a decade ago, the ...
The Kremlin and the Grand Kremlin Palace, center right, are seen along the Moscow River in Moscow, Russia, on March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)/ After two years of robust growth fueled by military spending on , the budget deficit is up and defense spending has leveled off. The ...
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Israeli security forces inspect the Hamida Mosque after it was vandalised by Israeli settlers/ The marks of the attack on Hamida Mosque, near Deir Istiya in the occupied West Bank, are still scattered on the ground outside. Charred furniture, lecterns and smoky curls of carpet are piled around ...
have veered so far to the right that they are starting to eat their own. MAGA conspiracy theorists have frequently claimed that athletes and celebrities are secretly trans, but now they are If you’re not chronically online, you may be unaware that “transvestigation” is a transphobic conspiracy ...
About 23 of them have since left for other destinations, authorities say/ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says there will be an investigation into the "mysterious" arrival of a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza into the country. The group arrived at OR Tambo ...