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The United Kingdom’s tier one visa, known as the “golden visa,” will be suspended on Dec. 7 until new regulations are put in place in 2019, due to exploitation and money laundering allegations, Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes announced Thursday. The golden

A suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern Iranian port city of Chabahar on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding several others, state TV reported. State television broke into its regular broadcast to report the attack,

Turkish security forces on Thursday confiscated around 10,000 historical coins dating back to Roman and Byzantine eras in the Aegean province of Kutahya. In an anti-smuggling operation, the gendarmerie raided a gas station after a tip off that a group of

A U.K. Parliament committee accused Facebook on Wednesday of cutting special deals with some advertisers to give them more access to data as it released 250 pages worth of documents on the tech giant’s internal discussions about the value of users’

Canadian authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies for possible extradition to the United States. China demanded her immediate release, and a former Canadian envoy to China warned the case might lead to

Those who think the political and environmental state of the world is worsening to an unprecedented level may be heartened to hear humans have had it a lot worse. In fact, one century that kicked off with a doozy of a

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday that the body had reports of Daesh executing people perceived as cooperating with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province. Speaking to a news conference in Geneva,

There have been nearly 1,000 human rights violations by French police towards refugees in Calais in the past year, according to a report released on Wednesday. Police Violence in Calais: Abusive and Illegal Practices by Law Enforcement officers, published by four humanitarian