India will continue to buy Iran’s oil: Iranian foreign minister
India is committed to buying Iranian oil and continuing the two nations’ economic cooperation, the Iranian foreign minister said after a meeting with his Indian counterpart and ahead of U.S. sanctions aimed at halting Tehran’s oil exports.
A year after failed independence bid, Iraq’s Kurds vote for parliament
(This Sept. 26 story was corrected to change number of registered voters in paragraph 16 to 3.085 million from 3.85 million)
Factbox: Iraq’s Kurds to elect a new parliament
Voters in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq will elect a new parliament on Sunday.
In legal battle over gay sex, Kenyan court to consider Indian ruling
Parties involved in a court case seeking to decriminalize gay sex in Kenya will be allowed to make submissions based on a recent decision by India’s top court to overturn a ban on gay sex, a Kenyan court said on Thursday.
EU accepts no-deal Brexit would still include some deals: diplomats
The European Union will wait until November before kicking off full-blown preparations for a possible collapse of Brexit talks, diplomats said, reluctantly accepting that such a scenario would still require some managing.
Killing them softly: Macron’s EU election man challenges Brussels political order
Emmanuel Macron ripped up the French political textbook with surprising ease last year, but repeating the feat in Europe next year is a tall order when there are decades of perceived French arrogance to overcome.
India’s top court decriminalizes adultery in landmark judgment
India’s top court on Thursday decriminalized adultery in a landmark judgment aimed at upholding the right to equality and freedom, scrapping a law first brought in under British colonial rule in 1860.
EU grudgingly accepts no-deal Brexit would still include some deals
The European Union will wait until November before kicking off full-blown preparations for a possible collapse of Brexit talks, diplomats said, reluctantly accepting that such a scenario would still require some managing.
Far from home, a Syrian rebel group starts over
Syrian rebels forced from their towns when government forces retook eastern Ghouta near Damascus are starting over in the far north, aiming to build hundreds of homes for displaced fighters and civilians on opposition-held land near the Turkish border….
UK judge adjourns contempt case against far-right activist Tommy Robinson
A judge adjourned a rehearing on Thursday in a contempt-of-court action against British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose case has attracted the sympathy of right-wing supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.
