British soldiers accused of lying to an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, during which civilians were killed in the Northern Ireland conflict, will not face perjury charges.

   A suicide bomber detonated an explosive laden vest near a van carrying Japanese autoworkers in Karachi. The workers escaped, but three bystanders were wounded.

   The flame that will burn at the upcoming Paris Olympics is spending the night at the Acropolis in Athens before being delivered to French officials next week.

   A Dominican soldier identified as Paulino de la Cruz has been arrested under suspicion he raped a year old Haitian girl while tasked with searching for illegal immigrants.

   The U.S. Treasury announced on Friday that Bangkok based plastics firm SCG Plastics Co. has agreed to pay million to settle with the U.S. over violations of Iran sanctions.

   An Italian court has dismissed a case against rescue ship crews from Save The Children, Jugend Rettet and Doctors Without Borders; charges were dropped accusing them of ’collaborating with smugglers.’

   The UN’s refugee agency has said that efforts by Cyprus to stop Syrian refugee laden boats from reaching the island nation must not put passengers at risk or violate international human rights laws.

   The U.S. is attempting to broker a new agreement with Niger’s military junta that would allow it to remain in the West African country.

   A hacker activist group in Belarus has claimed to have infiltrated computers at Grodno Azot, the country’s largest fertilizer plant, to pressure the government to free political prisoners.

   Ukraine said on Friday it shot down a Russian strategic bomber, while Moscow officials claimed the plane crashed due to a malfunction; neither claim could be verified.

   Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ignored the Israeli missile strikes that hit his country during a speech on Friday, apparently walking back his previous threats of total war.

   Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel L pez Obrador is in a rush to finish legislative and building projects before his term ends, and experts say officials are ’getting a bit sloppy.’

   Croatia’s President Zoran MilanoviÄ has been banned by the country’s Constitutional Court from becoming prime minister, in the event that his party garners a majority after this week’s parliamentary election.

   French athletes participating in the Paris Olympics and Paralympics will receive mental health support to combat online harassment and cyberbullying, officials said.

   The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has voiced the significance of Finland’s decision to close its border with Russia due to a surge in migrants.

   Two Polish citizens have been detained in connection with the assault on Russian activist Leonid Volkov in Vilnius, Lithuania. The attack occurred on March .

   Israeli carried out a quot;limited quot; strike against Iran on Friday, targeting the country’s Isfahan province, which is where Natanz, one of Iran’s nuclear facilities, is located.

   Israel fired missiles at a site in Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran launching a barrage of missiles and drones at the Jewish state over the weekend.

   Israel’s national amputee soccer team is heading to France for the European Amputee Football Championships in June. The team lineup includes two Israeli soldiers.

   Linda Thomas Greenfield, the American envoy to the United Nations, visited the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki, Japan, becoming the first U.S. cabinet member to do so.

   The Israeli Defense Force launched strikes into the the Iranian region of Isfahan, home to multiple nuclear reactors and enrichment centers, but did not damage the facilities.

   South Korea’s government is adjusting its plan to increase admissions to medical schools amid a weeks long strike by thousands of doctors, officials said.

   Eighty one years ago, brave Jewish resistance fighters in Warsaw, Poland, put up fierce resistance to their imminent deportation to certain death in the Nazi concentration camp system.

   Iran’s military has no immediate plans Friday to hit back at Israel following strikes inside the country early Friday near a nuclear facility, a report says.

   Amid massive antisemitism on American ivy league campuses, a former high level Iranian official who teaches at Princeton University has been accused of allegedly voicing support to two terror groups.