Pars Today
A prominent Bahraini activist says he was held at Gatwick Airport in London as he returned to the United Kingdom after addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva about human rights abuses in the Persian Gulf island state.
Defense ministers of the United Kingdom and France have gathered in Kiev to discuss further military aid to Ukraine, which is striving for more weapons to boost its slowed counteroffensive against Russian forces.
A bipartisan group of US senators have asked the United Kingdom, France and Germany to take action to prevent the expiration of UN bans targeting Iran’s missile and drone activities, which are set to end next month.
A member of the British security forces has been charged with murder in relation to the shooting of a Black man in south London last year.
China has strongly condemned a recent report by the United Kingdom on Hong Kong as being riddled with “irresponsible and non-factual accusations,” saying London’s “plans to disrupt” the financial hub “are doomed to fail.”
China has rejected as “pure fabrication” allegations that an espionage suspect arrested in the United Kingdom was gathering information for Beijing.
Britain’s second-biggest city, Birmingham, has effectively declared itself bankrupt. It has shut down all nonessential spending and the city now expects to have a deficit of £87 million for the 2023-24 financial year.
A group of Australian lawmakers have planned to visit the United States later this month to demand an end to Washington’s push to get WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited to the country.
Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group is set to be proscribed as a terrorist organization by the British government, according to the UK Home Office.
Iranians have marked the National Day of Fight against British Colonialism by commemorating the 109th anniversary of the martyrdom of Rais Ali Delvari.