Amnesty International says at least eight people have died amid anti-government protests across Iran.
Amnesty International says at least eight people have died amid anti-government protests across Iran.
They sign an historic agreement on gas fields, ending a dispute which risked triggering a conflict.
Tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan are high after missile and drone attacks from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The force is accused of abusing Iranian women who it thinks do not wear the hijab properly enough.
Pilgrims and staff came under fire at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz, state media report.
Santiago Sánchez was hiking from Madrid to Qatar, but is now believed to be in a Tehran jail.
The Labour party calls the foreign secretary's remarks about the World Cup "shockingly tone-deaf".
Amnesty International says at least eight people have died amid anti-government protests across Iran.
They sign an historic agreement on gas fields, ending a dispute which risked triggering a conflict.
Tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan are high after missile and drone attacks from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The force is accused of abusing Iranian women who it thinks do not wear the hijab properly enough.
Pilgrims and staff came under fire at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz, state media report.
Santiago Sánchez was hiking from Madrid to Qatar, but is now believed to be in a Tehran jail.
The Labour party calls the foreign secretary's remarks about the World Cup "shockingly tone-deaf".
They sign an historic agreement on gas fields, ending a dispute which risked triggering a conflict.
Tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan are high after missile and drone attacks from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The force is accused of abusing Iranian women who it thinks do not wear the hijab properly enough.
Mike Thomson
BBC World Service News
The prize-winning Egyptian novelist and short-story writer, Bahaa Taher, has died aged 87.
Born in Cairo in 1935, he wrote a number of critically acclaimed books - some turned into TV dramas.
In the mid-1970s the author became active in left-wing literary circles and was banned from publishing under President Anwar Sadat’s government.
In 2008 Taher won the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction, for his novel The Oasis of Sunset.
By Aled Scourfield
BBC News
The UN Security Council has voted for the resumption of negotiations between parties to the disputed Western Sahara.
The Thursday resolution called for the parties to resume negotiations "in good faith with a view to achieving a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution" for Western Sahara.
Thirteen countries in the 15-member council voted in favour of the resolution, with Kenya and Russia abstaining.
Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, is disputed by the Algerian-backed Polisario Front and Morocco.
Morocco controls around 80% of Western Sahara and the rest is held by the Polisario movement - which fought with Morocco for years after Spanish forces withdrew in 1975.
The 16-year-long insurgency ended with a UN-brokered truce in 1991 and the promise of a referendum on independence which has yet to take place.
By George Wright
BBC News
By Jonathan Holmes
BBC News
By Raffi Berg
BBC News
Widespread unrest continues across Iran as security forces reportedly opened fire on protesters.
By Esme Stallard
BBC News Climate and Science
Demonstrations took place to mark 40 days since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
By Raffi Berg
BBC News, Jerusalem
Tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan are high, following several missile and drone attacks in the region from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
By David Gritten
BBC News
BBC World Service
A four-year-old girl who reached Italy on a migrant boat without her family is to be returned to Tunisia.
Her father is said to have handed her to a people smuggler in the town of Sayada while he went back to help his wife and son, but the boat left before he returned.
He'd paid the smuggler nearly $7,500 (£6,500).
Tunisia's President, Kais Saied, has called for international help to curb the growing number of migrants leaving his country, many of whom die trying to reach Europe.
