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Detained Britons charged with espionage in Iran

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Detained Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman have been charged in Iran with espionage, the country's judiciary news agency has said.

Mr and Mrs Foreman were arrested in the city of Kerman in January but news of their detention, on unspecified security charges, emerged last week.

Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said that the couple, both aged 52, had "entered Iran under the guise of tourists" and "gathered information in multiple provinces of the country".

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Russian general accused of war crimes in Ukraine killed in Moscow explosion

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A senior Russian general has been killed in an explosion in Moscow after a bomb was hidden in an electric scooter, Russian officials have said.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s nuclear protection forces, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, about four miles south-east of the Kremlin, early on Tuesday.

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Architects design community solutions for combatting climate disaster

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As another year punctuated by climate catastrophe draws to a close, densely-packed urban communities – from favelas in Brazil to slums on the outskirts of Mexico City – have again found themselves on the sharp end of extreme weather. So-called informal communities are often situated in undesirable, disaster-prone areas – such as low-lying flood plains that lack the infrastructure to drain off excess water. Despite this, more often than not, they are excluded from government-instigated adaptation plans and overlooked in climate funds.

But a number of pioneering architecture firms are now attempting to grapple with these interlinked challenges within vulnerable communities across the Global South.

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The unexpected voters who guaranteed Donald Trump the White House

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Donald Trump has been elected the 47th President of the United States, four years after his defeat to Joe Biden. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he told the gleeful crowd gathered in Florida following the result.

While some of the voting trends were as expected, there were unexpected twists in how the two candidates fared with different demographics – and these proved instrumental in determining the ultimate result of the presidential race.

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Vardy ordered to pay £100,000 towards Rooney costs

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Rebekah Vardy has been ordered to pay Coleen Rooney £100,000 this month towards the money she owes following the high-profile 2022 Wagatha Christie libel case.

After losing the case, Mrs Vardy was ordered to pay 90% of Mrs Rooney's legal costs.