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Saudi Arabia sees highest number of executions on record in 2025

About two-thirds of those executed were convicted of non-lethal drug-related offences, including at least 96 cases linked to hashish, rights groups said

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff looks on during his swearing-in ceremony of in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo

US, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey urge restraint in Gaza after Miami talks

A Palestinian man, next to a child, displays the aid supplies he received from the US-supported Gaza Relief Organization, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 5, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo

UN, aid groups warn Gaza operations at risk from Israel impediments

A 3D printed miniature model of US President Donald Trump, Israel and Iran flags are seen in this illustration taken June 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Inside Operation Narnia: Israel's shadow war on Iran's nuclear programme

Mourners carry bodies during the funeral of Hamas's senior commander Raed Saed and his aides, who were killed in an Israeli strike a day earlier, in Gaza City, December 14, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Hamas says Israel's killing of senior commander threatens ceasefire

A crew member raises the Iranian flag on Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, previously named Grace 1, in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain, August 18, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Iran detains 18 crew members of foreign tanker, including Bangladesh nationals, seized in Gulf of Oman

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the American Business Forum Miami at the Kaseya Center Arena in Miami, Florida, US November 5, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Two US soldiers and an interpreter killed in suspected Islamic State attack in Syria

Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture. Mohammadi family archive photos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi detained by Iranian authorities

A general view shows construction of the Israeli settlement of Ramat Givat Zeev in the occupied-West Bank November 19, 2019. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israeli settlements in West Bank growing at highest level since 2017: UN

Palestinians walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, November 19, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo

US aims for international Gaza force deployment early next year: US officials

UAE Ambassador to the UN Lana Nusseibeh, speaks during a session titled "Navigating Challenges to International Peace and Security," at the World Governments Summit, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Amr Alfiky

UAE-EU free trade talks advancing rapidly: UAE state minister

Paramount and Warner Bros logos are seen in this illustration taken December 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Hollywood-hungry Gulf states bankroll Paramount's Warner Bros bid

Estimates of the Syrians still missing after the civil war range from 140,000 to as many as 300,000Image: Yamam Al Shaar/REUTERS

One year after Assad's toppling: What has Syria achieved?