Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Three Australian nationals, including two who also hold British citizenship, have been detained in Iran./ In a statement sent to CNN Wednesday, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) ...
for taking illegal photos with a drone, according to a source with knowledge of the situation./ In a statement Thursday, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) confirmed that Australians Mark Firkin and Jolie King were being held in Iran./ On Thursday, a source with knowledge of the ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Jolie King and Mark Firkin in Indonesia in a picture posted on Instagram on April 24, 2018./ for taking illegal photos with a drone, according to a source with knowledge of the situation./ In a statement ...
Australian women arrested and detained in Iran has been named as Jolie King, a travel blogger on holiday with her fiancee. Ms King was camping with Mark Firkin near a military site in Jajrood near Tehran when the pair were arrested by the Revolutionary Guard on August 9. The couple, who live in ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ The Australian couple are reportedly being held in Evin prison in the country's capital Two Australian citizens detained in Iran have been identified as Jolie King and Mark Firkin. Ms King, who also holds a UK passport, and Mr Firkin were ...
have been identified as travel bloggers from Perth./ Jolie King and Mark Firkin are detained in Evin jail in the Iranian capital of Tehran, the federal government has confirmed./ “Our families hope to see Mark and Jolie safely home as soon as possible,” their families said in a statement today, ...
Britain’s foreign minister on Tuesday said Iranian tanker Adrian Darya had sold its crude oil to the Assad regime in Syria, breaking assurances it had given not to sell crude to the country./ FILE PHOTO: What appears to be the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 off the coast of Tartus, Syria, is ...
in the hope of exchanging one of them for an Iranian imprisoned in the US on charges of evading American sanctions. Tensions between Britain and Iran escalated dramatically after it emerged the women were being held in the first recent case of Tehran arresting British citizens who do not also ...
Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who has been held in Tehran since 2016, outside the Iranian Embassy in London in June./ Three citizens of Australia are being held in Iran, the Australian government said on Wednesday, confirming the detentions ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Two British-Australian women and an Australian man have been detained in Iran, it has been reported. one of the women was arrested with her boyfriend 10 weeks ago on unknown charges while another woman was jailed for 10 years. Iran has held ...
The Adrian Darya 1, reportedly seen here near the port city of Tartus in Syria - AFP/ Britain has accused Tehran of an "unacceptable" breach of international norms after it apparently broke a promise that an oil tanker detained off Gibraltar this summer would not deliver oil to Syria. Dominic ...
Tehran has pursued a campaign of detaining Iranian and dual nationals academics in recent years, raising fears the Islamic republic is using them as diplomatic leverage. While there are no exact figures on the number of detainees with British links being held in Iran, these are at least some of ...
Australian women have reportedly been arrested and detained in Iran amid growing tensions between London and Tehran. A blogger who was travelling with her Australian boyfriend and an academic who studied at Cambridge University were seized in separate incidents, according to The Times. The pair ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ The Iranian flag flies on board the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, formerly named Grace 1 Oil on an Iranian tanker detained in Gibraltar has been transferred to Syria, in breach of EU sanctions, the foreign secretary has said. The ship, ...
This Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. appears to show the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya-1 off the coast of Tartus, Syria. New satellite photos obtained Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, by The Associated Press appears to show the Iranian oil tanker still off Syria despite U ...
ritain has summoned the Iranian ambassador after the released tanker Adrian Darya 1 reportedly delivered oil to Syria. Iran repeatedly gave assurances to the Government of Gibraltar that it would not deliver oil to any EU-sanctioned entity in Syria or elsewhere and was released after being ...
This Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. appears to show the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya-1 off the coast of Tartus, Syria. New satellite photos obtained Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, by The Associated Press appears to show the Iranian oil tanker still off Syria despite U ...
MELBOURNE/LONDON (Reuters) - Three Australian citizens have been detained in Iran, the Australian government said on Wednesday, adding that it was helping the families of the three but gave no further details. The brief statement from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade came ...
Iran’s envoy to London said on Wednesday the oil cargo of tanker Adrian Darya 1 was sold at sea to a private company, denying Tehran had broken assurances it had given over the vessel, but he insisted EU’s Syria sanctions did not apply to Tehran./ FILE PHOTO: Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, ...
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s government and media say two British Australians and a third Australians have been detained in Iran. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Wednesday it is providing consular assistance to the families of all three. The department said in a ...
LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Britain said Iran had sold the oil cargo of tanker Adrian Darya 1 to Syria, breaking assurances it had given over the vessel which had been detained in Gibraltar for a suspected breach of European Union sanctions. The vessel, formerly named Grace 1, was seized by ...
LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Britain summoned the Iranian ambassador on Tuesday to condemn what it said was a clear breach of the assurances it was given over the oil cargo of the tanker Adrian Darya 1, which had previously been detained for breaching EU sanctions. "Iran has shown complete ...
38PM [Updated: Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:38PM ]/ In this file photo taken on August 18, 2019 an Iranian flag flutters on board the Adrian Darya oil tanker, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar. (AFP photo)/ Iran’s ambassador to the United Kingdom says a tanker carrying Iranian oil in ...
Israeli and Palestinian rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres/ The United Nations committee on torture says there is evidence that Israel is operating a "de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture". The committee regularly reviews the ...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar stands at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)/ PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The prime minister of retracted comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the ...
A gun battle and air strikes resulted in the deadliest incident of its kind for months/ At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli raid on a village in southern Syria overnight, state media reported, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind for months. It said children were among the ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the introduction of a new "mansion tax" on properties valued at £2m and over as one of the measures unveiled in her It’s estimated that around 0.4% of properties, about 145,000, according to Savills, will be affected by this extra fee, which the government ...
BBC correspondent examines footage showing moments leading up to shooting in the occupied West Bank/ Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank. The incident happened during an ongoing Israeli ...
A worker fills a bag with wood chip biomass at Nova Pangaea Technologies, in Redcar, Britain, April 9, 2025. REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski/ LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's government watered down plans to strengthen workers' protection against unfair dismissal on Thursday, saying employees would get the ...
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Due to large amounts of rain, the city of Peoria has issued a Combined Sewer Overflow Alert for Thursday. When Peoria gets too much rainfall, the sewers overflow, and instead of that sewage going to the water treatment plant, it flows into the Illinois River, said public ...
Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia and political party. On streets, ...
A drone view of a Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding the birth of symbolic thought, social complexity and monumental architecture thousands of years before cities or states existed, near the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, Turkey, November 25, ...
A letter from the Texas state attorney general threatens to derail college sports’ new enforcement entity before it has really even got going. In a three-page letter sent to the seven power conference universities in Texas, Ken Paxton implores the schools not to sign the College Sports ...