But it adds that pupils “may be allowed to informally change their names if it is in the best interests of the child and parents have been fully consulted”.

The UN Security Council is expected on Tuesday to accede to a demand from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and launch a gradual withdrawal of peacekeepers, starting later this month.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call a general election at some point in 2024, but exactly when is becoming a source of increasingly fevered speculation among political observers.

The European Union on Monday adopted a new package of sanctions on Russia that include an import ban on Russian diamonds, officials said.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won a new six-year term with 89.6 percent of the vote, the election authority announced Monday.