Amid hard times, president urges city farming
Facing a national food crisis, Venezuela’s pumpkin-growing socialist president is exhorting compatriots to grow fruit and vegetables on balconie
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Kerry defends $400 million payment to Iran
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday defended the Obama administration’s payment of $400 million in cash to Iran, denying it was a ranso
‘Internet curfew’ for village, say activists
Nightly mobile network disruption has been detected in a Bahraini village at the centre of recent protests, an advocacy group has said. Bahrain Watch
Syrian refugee crowned ‘wine queen’
A Syrian refugee has been crowned “queen” of one of Germany’s top wine-making regions, the first asylum seeker to receive such an ac
Briton charged with trafficking cocaine
A British man has appeared in court accused of trafficking nearly 100kg of cocaine into Kenya. Jack Alexander Wolf Marrian, a sugar trader who lives a