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France court jails migrant smugglers over 2022 Channel deaths


Monday, 30 June, 2025 , 11:28 AFP A French court on Monday sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqi Kurds to seven to eight years in jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers from France to England in 2022.

France court jails migrant smugglers over 2022 Channel deaths


Monday, 30 June, 2025 , 09:24 AFP A French court Monday sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqi Kurds to seven to eight years in jail over the deadly capsizing of a boat carrying migrants from France to England in 2022.

France court jails migrant smugglers over 2022 Channel deaths


Monday, 30 June, 2025 , 08:54 AFP A French court Monday sentenced nine Afghan and Kurdish men to seven to eight years in jail over the deadly capsizing of a boat carrying migrants from France to England in 2022.

Graft case piles pressure on Turkey's main opposition


Sunday, 29 June, 2025 , 05:58 AFP A court hearing that could upend the leadership of Turkey's main opposition CHP is the latest bid to hobble the party behind a wave of spring protests that shook the government, analysts say.

Alive but weakened, Iran's Khamenei faces new challenges


Friday, 27 June, 2025 , 11:46 AFP Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has re-emerged after the war with Israel but faces a struggle to maintain the authority he has wielded over the Islamic republic in over three-and-a-half decades of rule, analysts say.

Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million


Friday, 27 June, 2025 , 01:47 AFP Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity.

Iran hangs three more accused of spying as fears grow for Swede


Wednesday, 25 June, 2025 , 13:50 AFP Iran on Wednesday hanged three men convicted of spying for Israel after what activists decried as an unfair trial, bringing to six the number of people executed on such charges since the start of the war between the Islamic republic and Israel.

Turkey breathes easier as Iran-Israel truce eases fallout risk


Wednesday, 25 June, 2025 , 08:31 AFP As the fragile Iran-Israel truce took hold, there was no letup in Turkey's diplomatic efforts Wednesday to prevent any return to a conflict fraught with risk for Ankara's domestic and regional policies.

No attacks 'so far' on Iraq bases hosting US troops: security sources


Monday, 23 June, 2025 , 19:50 AFP Iraqi security sources told AFP that Iran had not attacked the main base hosting US troops in the country "so far", after the Islamic republic launched missiles at an American military facility in Qatar.

Iran hangs man convicted of spying for Israel: judiciary


Monday, 23 June, 2025 , 06:05 AFP Iran's judiciary said it executed on Monday a man found guilty of spying for Israel, as fighting between the two countries entered its 11th day.