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UK says 'no link' between moves to pay Iran debt and Zaghari-Ratcliffe case

UK denies any link between action to pay debt to Iran and efforts to secure the release of a British-Iranian national.

Cambodia

Cambodian court dissolves main opposition party

Prime Minister Hun Sen now looks set to extend more than three decades in power in elections next year

USA

Murderer Charles Manson 'clinging to life'

World News

How do different European countries define the age of sexual consent?

At what age is sex with a child assumed nonconsensual, if at all, in different European countries?

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Argentina

Plane crew detained after passenger claims neighbour masturbated

The crew of a French-run plane were held for 48 hours by police in Buenos Aires after the daughter of a former Argentine minister complained a fellow passenger masturbated next to her, according to a source close to the investigation

USA

US National Archive files confirm Martin Luther King was target of FBI probe

Effort was made to gather evidence of Communist beliefs and sexual impropriety to discredit Civil Rights leader.

Spain

Catalonia leader Santi Vila freed from jail

Jailed Catalonia leader Santi Vila walks free from prison after paying bail of 50,000 euros. Vila was among nine Catalan leaders ordered to be held in custody on Thursday.

Spain

Spain's high court jails Catalonia's secessionist leaders ahead of trial

Nine members of the former Catalan administration testified on charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds

Belgium

Catalonia's sacked president will ignore a Spanish court order to answer rebellion charges

Catalan's ousted leader Carles Puigdemont will reportedly ignore a court order to return to Spain to answer charges over the region's push for independence, according to his Belgiun lawyer.

World News

Why Australia has lost its deputy prime minister

"It is a tough game, politics. You take the hits and the sacrifices," Barnaby Joyce told reporters

Sport

PSG boss questioned over bribery claims by Swiss prosecutors

Paris Saint Germain chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi was interrogated for hours by Swiss prosectors investigating the sale of World Cup media rights

Malaysia

Kim Jong Nam murder suspects wheeled around crime scene

The two women say they thought they were carrying out a prank for a reality show when they approached the North Korean leader's half-brother at Kuala Lumpur's international airport last February.

Portugal

Portuguese judge uses Bible to excuse abusive husband

The appeal court judge suggested an abused women deserved to be punished for adultery

United Arab Emirates

Dubai's ruler overturns conviction of Briton who 'touched man in bar'

Jamie Harron had been sentenced to three months in prison.

USA

Could allegations of sexual harassment against Trump catch up with him?

Ex-The Apprentice contestant who claims Trump groped her has subpoenaed his campaign for all documents concerning “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately”

World News

EU Public Prosecutor to fight fraud

Italy

Courthouse café serves up a whole latte help to reform criminals

Russia

Jail sentence for Russian opposition leader

A Moscow court has sent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to jail for 20 days for calling for an unsanctioned protest

World News

Ryanair threatened with legal action over flight cancellations

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority is taking action against the low-cost carrier for "persistently misleading" customers about their rights following thousands of flight cancellations.

United Kingdom

Man charged over London tube bomb attack

Ahmed Hassan, 18, has been charged with attempted murder over last week's London tube bomb attack and appeared in court on Friday.