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Mr Aminzadeh (L), a former deputy foreign minister, went on trial in August

An Iranian opposition leader has been jailed for six years for his role in the unrest following June's disputed presidential election, reports say.

Mohsen Aminzadeh was convicted of organising protests, disturb...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the "global arrogance" on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

"The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism," Ahmadi...

The arms company BAE Systems used a secret payments system to transfer more than £13m to a company linked to David Hart, the controversial former Conservative defence adviser, according to legal sources.
He has acted as a lobbyist both for Britain's biggest arms company and...

An "extremely dangerous" storm has dumped large amounts of snow in the eastern US, killing at least two people and paralysing parts of the region.

About 10in (25cm) of snow had fallen by 0100 (0600 GMT) in Washington, with forecasters predicting the heaviest snowfall to hit t...

Palestinian group Hamas has accused Israel of assassinating one of its founding members while he was in Dubai.


Hamas has vowed to continue Mabhouh's "path of jihad and martyrdom"


Mahmoud al Mabhouh was reportedly killed on January 20 - a day after he arrived in the Gulf ...

The Government's flagship ID cards scheme suffered an embarrassing setback when a bank refused to accept one as proof of identity.

Darren McTeggart tried to use the £30 card to pick up a replacement credit card from a branch of Santander – formerly Abbey – in Manchester, where the scheme was rolled out on a voluntary basis last year.

Mr McTeggart, one of the first pe...

Hamas is ready for dialogue with the international community, including the United States and European Union, according to the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Ismail Haniya.


The Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya.

"Hamas is ready to dialogue with the world, inter...

The disaster that sealed Concorde's fate will be forensically scrutinised when six defendants go on trial in France on Tuesday over the supersonic jet's crash near Paris 10 years ago.


Air France Concorde: French prosecutors will argue, as investigators have done, that an 18-inch scrap of ...

Israel has revealed it has reprimanded two top army officers for using white phosphorus shells during an attack on a UN compound in Gaza last year.

The admission is contained in the Israeli response to the UN's Goldstone report, which concluded both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes.

Both ...