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Iran has executed at least 841 people this year: UN

Friday, 29 August, 2025 , 13:36 AFP — At least 841 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, decrying "a systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of state intimidation".

Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany

Friday, 29 August, 2025 , 13:03 AFP — Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.

Turkey sets year-end goal for PKK peace framework

Friday, 29 August, 2025 , 11:51 AFP — Turkey has given a parliamentary commission until the end of the year to lay the groundwork for a peace process with the Kurdish militant group PKK, the speaker of parliament said Friday.

More than 800 Iraqis repatriated from notorious Syria camp

Thursday, 28 August, 2025 , 15:40 AFP — More than 800 Iraqi nationals left northeast Syria's Al-Hol camp on Thursday, the facility's director told AFP, the latest batch to quit the notorious camp that holds suspected relatives of Islamic State group jihadists.