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As part of its crackdown on immigration, the US State Department has announced that it will start requiring travellers from certain countries to pay bonds of up to $15,000 to enter the United States.

The 12-month pilot programme affects B-1 business and B-2 tourism visas and starts on August 20. It targets travellers from countries with historically higher rates of visa overstays, according to the department’s temporary final rule published on August 5 in the Federal Register. If visitors…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Thirty-five independent UN human rights experts have called for the immediate dismantling of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US- and Israeli-backed organization that operates a controversial aid distribution system in Gaza, citing serious violations of international law.

“The GHF, a nongovernmental organisation created by Israel in February 2025, with US support, to allegedly distribute aid in Gaza, is an utterly disturbing example of how…

Iranian judiciary’s news outlet Mizan reported that Rouzbeh Vadi relayed classified information to Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad.

Iran has executed a man accused of spying for Israel, state media reported.

Rouzbeh Vadi allegedly passed on information about a nuclear scientist killed in Israel’s June attacks on the Islamic Republic, the Iranian judiciary’s news outlet Mizan reported.

He was executed on Wednesday and had worked in one of Iran’s “important and sensitive…

Sudan’s 27-month civil war is being compounded by a hunger crisis affecting the vulnerable, especially the people trapped in North Darfur’s capital, el-Fasher.

Despite numerous pleas for help from the people within, aid agencies say they have been denied access to el-Fasher.

As a result, some 740,000 people are deteriorating from hunger, according to the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies.

In December 2024, global hunger monitor the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification,…

Commissioner’s recommendations for tech companies include measures that have been criticised on privacy grounds.

Australia’s internet watchdog has accused tech giants including Google and Apple of failing to take action against child sex abuse on their platforms.

In a report released on Wednesday, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said tech platforms were failing to implement various measures to protect children, including scanning cloud services for known abuse material and using…