Some 1,000 have been injured and senior officers are among the casualties, an MP says, quoting officials.
Category: World
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Rare accounts of life for women inside notorious Iranian prison
Interrogations, beatings, cramped quarters and the tight bonds women forge inside Tehran’s Evin prison.
The mega trade deal that has French farmers in uproar
The EU wants a trade deal with four South American nations, but France is strongly opposed.
United Front: China’s ‘magic weapon’ caught in a spy controversy
The UFWD is a decades-old – and increasingly controversial – arm of China’s Communist Party. What does it do?
Watch: BBC speaks to Syrian rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa
Sharaa led the rebel offensive that toppled the Assad regime in Syria less than two weeks ago.
My kids saw my pain on set, says Angelina Jolie
The Hollywood star plays famous opera singer Maria Callas in a new biopic.
Google Street View image helps police unlock murder case
The image on the app shows a man putting a large plastic bag into the boot of his car.
Verdicts due for 51 men in Pelicot mass rape trial that shook France
Judges will deliver verdicts on the defendants in a case that turned a 72-year-old woman into a feminist icon.
Syria not a threat to world, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa tells BBC
In an interview with Jeremy Bowen, the leader of the rebel group HTS says sanctions on Syria should be lifted.