Supporters of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani celebrate after he won the presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 20, 2017. Tens of thousands of supporters of President Hassan Rouhani have poured into the streets of Tehran as night falls to celebrate the incumbent’s re-election. ...
TEHRAN – All 21 candidates supported by the pro-reformers under the “List of Hope” have won all seats in Tehran’s city council, according to early election results. With the majority of the votes counted, the results show that all candidates belonging to the List of Hope have won by a wide ...
Reformists have won all seats in Tehran City Council, Tehran Governor Issa Farhadi said, ILNA news agency reported May 21. Accordingly, Mohsen Hashemi, son of late ayatollah and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, came first in the ranking of 30 candidates to go to the council. ...
Iran's moderates and reformists have swept to power in Tehran's City Council, winning all 21 seats and driving the conservatives from power. It was another boost to the moderate and reformist camp after President Hassan Rohani won a resounding victory in the May 19 presidential election. Mehdi ...
Vote counting in Iran's city and village council elections is winding down across the country, with supporters of President Hassan Rouhani ruling supreme in the capital Tehran. The event went underway on Friday to elect the people responsible for overseeing urban and rural affairs countrywide. ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...
This undated photo provided by University of Wisconsin Marketing & Communications, shows UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan has started the process in late March 2024, to strip Gow, the former chancellor who was fired over his ...
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an offensive in the city of Rafah./ Rafah, by the border with Egypt, is the only city in Gaza it has not yet entered. Well over a million people have been sheltering there for ...
Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Dogra Front shout slogans against Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a banner showing the logos of TikTok and other Chinese apps banned in India during a protest in Jammu, India, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)/ NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular ...
More than six months into the devastating Gaza war, its impact on the Israeli and Palestinian economies has been huge./ Nearly all economic activity in Gaza has been wiped out and the World Bank says the war has also hit Palestinian businesses in the occupied West Bank hard./ As Israelis mark ...
Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A photographer who worked for the hip-hop star said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was ...
HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Someone using a magnet to fish for metal objects in a Georgia creek pulled up a rifle as well as some lost belongings of a couple found slain in the same area more than nine years ago. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says driver's licenses, credit cards and other items ...