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Initiative was met with scepticism on social media, with many union members pledging to cancel membership.

Argentine mobile operators must pay for, set up and operate the national register to stop crime proliferating.

Photos featured on Guardian website support claims that Italy is putting 'wrong Medhanie Mered' on trial.

Authorities in Tanzania are struggling with dramatic rise in the number of new Burundian refugee arrivals.

Young boy claims he was locked in his room for long periods at a time and given pills to fall asleep.

Campbell MacDiarmid and Razaw Salihy are guests on IBTimesUK's In the Field

Moscow says that the International Criminal Court is biased.

Report by Rail Accident Investigation Branch into tragedy says tram was going 43 mph when it overtunred

EXCLUSIVE Rebel leader Riek Machar talks to IBTimes UK as Juba bans interviews with him amid violence.

Iraqi forces have successfully liberated swathes of eastern Mosul, establishing a foothold in Iraq's second city

The Human Trafficking Intervention Court in Queens has helped 3,000 vulnerable women since 2004.

The millions of Brits who are expansive, fair and internationalist will be by us through this dark patch.

Arthur Heeler-Frood, 15, was eventually found by a member of the public just nine miles from his home.

CCTV footage shows one suspect patting child on head after he takes shop worker's phone.

The iconic gown in which Marilyn Monroe serenaded John F Kennedy is expected to fetch $2,000,000 to $3,000,000.

Burundians fear changes may upset fragile ethnic power-sharing requirements as civil war looms.

The man, his son and wife were abducted by Abu Sayyaf on 5 August in Zamboanga.

NDA vows to bring oil production 'to zero' unless disenfranchisement of poor communities in the Delta ends.

Maurizio Cattelan's America is an 18-karat gold-cast toilet that you can use.

Born in Dadaab, Kenya's largest refugee camp, Abas beat the country's minister of information.

Woman claims she was attacked by two UK tourists but faces potential charge under UAE law.

A third tourist also suffered a cardiac arrest but was saved by staff on-board the Passions of Paradise vessel.

Declawing, often carried out to prevent pets damaging furniture, is already illegal in many countries.

ICC members may offer concessions "in a misguided effort" to deter others from leaving ICC.

Stockholm's chief prosecutor Krister Petersson will head the probe.

Machar, currently in South Africa, was dismissed as vice-president after fleeing Juba following July violence.

Oxford Dictionaries reckons it will be one of the defining words of our time after spikes around Brexit and US votes.

Andrew Anglin, a member of the white supremacist community, claims the company's statement was created by the 'lying Jewish media'.

Michele and Keith Harding have taken up the Kurdish struggle after their son Reece's death.