Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Several people are show wearing protective medical clothing and carrying a wooden casket.

Coronavirus crisis in India overwhelming hospitals

April 26, 2021Top of The World

Top of The World: Britain and the United States have pledged to send aid to India where a wave of COVID-19 cases has set a global record high, a fifth day in a row. And, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian British woman, has been sentenced to another year in prison. Also, the number of people who died from a massive fire at a hospital in Baghdad now totals 82.

A man crosses a street holding his daughter's hand

Aid worker released from Iranian prison amid COVID-19 fears

March 18, 2020Justice

Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is seen in an undated photograph.

Aid worker jailed in Iran goes on hunger strike, husband joins from UK

June 25, 2019Protest

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