Footage aired across multiple channels showed clips of Reza Pahlavi and a message urging Iranian security forces not to point their weapons at the people.

Damned for years by the tabloid media in Britain, the Duke of Sussex is demanding his say over how some journalists dug up news about him and the royal family. And he’s not alone.

In an interview with this masthead, the MAGA loyalist pledged to drive a Mack truck through the 22nd Amendment – which prevents a person being elected president more than twice – to keep Donald Trump in power.

New laws enacted in Indonesia this month criminalise a slew of supposed transgressions ranging from demeaning the president to unmarried sex.

Europe faces a spiralling dispute with the US president after he warned that he no longer felt obliged to pursue peace because he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize.