The man was being held with another inmate at a prison in the eastern city of Semnan, according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency.

The crisis-plagued country's divided parliament ends a power vacuum that lasted more than two years.

Barack Obama and Donald Trump shared a laugh at Jimmy Carter’s funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, 9 January.

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The Facebook and Instagram boss has shown just how deep he’s willing to stoop for the benefit of his commercial empire — and just how little his last eight years of promises really meant, writes Io Dodds

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46th president eulogizes 39th at a state funeral attended by all living American presidents

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The former and future first couple arrived in the nation’s capital on Wednesday ahead of Jimmy Carter’s funeral

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Lebanon has elected a new president after multiple failed attempts had left the country without a head of state since 2022.

John George’s family joined volunteers in the search for the 37-year-old before a body was discovered in Rojales on 7 January

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Michelle Obama was the only living first lady absent from the funeral

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Trump’s inaugural fund has received more than $170 million in donations

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Roseville Police Chief Mitchell Berlin said there was a ‘strong possibility’ that foul play was involved

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Places of worship, businesses and a senior community center are some of the hundreds of buildings that have been destroyed

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“I am so tired,” an exasperated Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) sighed after Scott Jennings invoked DEI during a discussion on the wildfires

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AC/DC fans have expressed their outrage after developers flattened the childhood home where the Young brothers founded the legendary rock band in 1973.

What does Russia think of Donald Trump's plan to acquire Greenland? Well, on the face of things, it is alarmed.

The student allegedly brought a gun to the same Georgia high school where a September shooting killed two teachers

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People at an evacuation centre describe fleeing their homes as flames engulfed their streets.

Firefighters are battling to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes

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Louis Spitalieri got to the hair in time but swallowed a piece of metal, according to court filings

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‘We’ve come such a long way that it would honestly be crazy to drop the ball now,’ says Ukrainian leader

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