President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh.

The presidents of Russia and Iran have held talks in the Kremlin before they sign a broad co-operation pact.

A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced the country&s already-imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and seven years in jail after finding them guilty of corruption, officials and his lawyer said.

The French Catholic Church has formally requested that prosecutors initiate an investigation into Abbe Pierre, a once-revered priest and leading humanitarian who died in 2007, following new revelations of sexual violence.