A US State Department official says more than 1,000 people may have been killed in recent protests in Iran, which followed fuel price hikes by the government last month.
Two customs agents have been charged in connection with Australia's largest ever onshore seizure of the drug "ice", a bust worth a record US$840 million, police said Thursday.
Germany expelled two Russian diplomats on Wednesday after prosecutors said Moscow could be behind the killing of a former Chechen rebel commander in a Berlin park.
One person was killed and 26 injured in a fire which occurred in the building of the educational institution in Odesa, South of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on Wednesday.
