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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —  Iran on Monday alternatively downplayed and demonized ongoing protests across the country that have killed at least five people and renewed pressure on the government as the country struggles under the weight of U.S. economic sanctions. The full scale of the protests, which began shortly after a 50% increase in gas…

BEIJING —  A gas explosion inside a coal mine in northern China has killed 15 miners and left nine injured, authorities said Tuesday. The blast occurred Monday afternoon at a mine operated by the Feng Yan Group in Shanxi province’s Pingyao County. Rescue work was halted early Tuesday after everyone was accounted for. The Shanxi provincial…

LAHORE, Pakistan —  Pakistan’s ailing former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was convicted of corruption, traveled to London on Tuesday for medical treatment. Sharif departed from Lahore after a court granted him permission to leave for four weeks for medical treatment. His conviction was earlier suspended for eight weeks on medical grounds. Local television stations broadcast…

MOSCOW —  Russia says it has repatriated another 32 children of members of the Islamic State group from Iraq. Russia’s state TV on Tuesday showed footage of the children arriving at Zhukovsky airport outside Moscow. It said the children ranging from age 1 to 9 will undergo extensive medical checkups before relatives take them home. Russia’s…

Romain Grosjean says he never felt under threat of losing his race seat at Haas at the end of the current season. The French driver got 2018 off to a torrid start with a number of incidents, accidents and mistakes costing him dear. It had looked like his poor results meant that his place at…

Up to 90 percent of seabirds are likely to have plastic in their guts, and the risk of ingestion is growing—a result of ever-increasing industrial pollution in the world’s oceans, according to a new study published Monday. Seabirds are particularly vulnerable to plastic ingestion due to their habits of eating floating particles that they mistake…

As the number of civilians impacted by the intensifying conflict in Afghanistan rises along with the fighting, humanitarian agencies are struggling to meet the needs of the wounded, hungry and displaced. The first half of 2015 has seen “record high levels” of civilian casualties, the United Nations relief agency said Tuesday, with civilian deaths touching…

Famed Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, known for having put Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on trial for genocide in 1998, has reportedly “set his sights on widening the definition of international law to target corporations that carry out economic or environmental crimes,” the Guardian reported on Thursday.  Garzón—who has taken on alleged torture and ill-treatment of inmates…

Sebastian Vettel had looked the odds-on favourite to claim pole position for this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, after the SF71H proved itself the best handling car at the Hungaroring in practice. But when it came to Saturday afternoon’s qualifying session, the Ferrari driver was thwarted by rain and stormy conditions. It meant he ended up…

Mick Schumacher’s march to Formula 1 should continue unabated next year, with the 19-year-old son of F1 legend Michael Schumacher expected to graduate to F2 in 2019. According to report from Germany’s Kolner Express, Schumacher spent time last weekend at Monza with another famous son, Nicolas Todt, the co-founder of the top F2 team ART…