Iran said Saturday it had executed a dual Iranian-British national who once worked for its Defense Ministry, despite an international outcry over his death sentence and those of others held amid nationwide protests.

The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union increased by 64 percent last year compared to 2021 to reach the highest level since 2016, the EU’s border agency has said. 

The Spanish Supreme Court on Thursday dropped sedition charges against former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont over a failed 2017 independence bid that sparked Spain’s worst political crisis in decades. 

The United Arab Emirates has said that the CEO of state oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Company will lead this year’s COP28 climate summit, fuelling activists’ worries that big industry is hijacking the global response to the environmental crisis.

Global warming hit Europe and the polar regions worst in 2022, while the last eight years were the warmest on record globally, figures from the European Union’s climate monitoring service show.

A court in Tehran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to four decades in prison and 74 lashes after convicting him on espionage and smuggling charges. 

Paris’ international airports are expecting flight delays due to a US Federal Aviation Administration system failure that has affected international flights into North America.