Gunmen on Friday opened fire and hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station in the southwestern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state media reported.

“A number of police members, as well as passers-by, have been injured in the exchange of fire” in the provincial capital of Zahedan, the state broadcaster said.

The British pound sank Thursday by more than one percent against the dollar after the Bank of England, BoE, intervened on the bond markets to head off a fresh financial catastrophe.

The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has called for stiffer measures in tackling corruption in the region.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the arrest of a British national, James Nolan for failing to appear for trial.

Armed soldiers in fatigues and masks appeared on television in Burkina Faso on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba, the second coup in the troubled West African country this year.

The United States Cyber National Mission Force has stated that its success depends on the ability to defend malicious cyber threats against foreign malicious cyber actors.

Ukraine on Friday blamed Moscow for shelling a convoy of civilian cars in the southern Zaporizhzhia region that killed at least 23 on the front line.

The governments of Denmark, Finland, and South Korea currently provide the best digital infrastructure for their citizens, a new UN report says.