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 ...
US President Donald Trump turned his focus to the Middle East on Monday, as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida for talks that are expected to cover Gaza and a range of other pressing issues. Any decisions made could have a potentially momentous impact on questions ...
Campaigners have called the changes a “once-in-a-generation revamp” of waste and recycling/ Households across England will have to leave out more bins from March this year. (Alamy)/ The number of household bins across England is changing in what has been described as a "once in a generation ...
Senior International Correspondent in Gaziantep, Turkey/ The pull of home can be strong – even when it is a place you can't remember. That is how it is for Ahmed, 18. He emerges from a mosque in the heart of Gaziantep in south-east Turkey - not far from the Syrian border - wearing a black ...
have lingered for years, particularly as sales have shifted online, but 2025 has proved to be another year in which no definitive answers emerged. Looking back over the year, there's plenty to be concerned about. Large retailers, including Iceland, Marks and Spencer, ( ) the Co-op and Morrisons, ...
The number of executions in Iran in 2025 is estimated to have more than doubled compared to the number that took place across the country in 2024. Norwegian-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group told the BBC it had verified at least 1,500 executions up until the start of December, adding that many ...
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo)/ said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister ’s meeting Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump. Pezeshkian said in an interview published on the website of ...
An incoming snowstorm could bring up to 12 inches across parts of the Tri-State Area, bringing hazardous travel conditions and bitter cold temperatures heading into the weekend./ The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories for parts of New York ...
Somaliland's president Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi called the declaration "historic"/ Israel has become the first country to formally recognise Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel intended to immediately expand ...
This photo provided by the Delaware State Police in December 2025 shows Cpl. Matthew Snook, a state trooper who was fatally shot at a DMV office near Wilmington, Del. (Delaware State Police via AP)/ This photo provided by the Delaware State Police in December 2025 shows Cpl. Matthew Snook, a ...
The attacker drove into people and then carried out a stabbing several miles away, police say/ Two people have been killed in what police say was a "rolling terror attack" in northern Israel. Police said the attacker ran over a pedestrian in the eastern city of Beit Shean, then drove on before ...