President Hassan Rouhani urged Iran's faction-ridden elite on Thursday to seek consensus after a hardline watchdog body disqualified thousands of moderate candidates from two elections this month, state television said./ Rouhani, a popular pragmatist now reestablishing ties abroad after last ...
Hassan Khomeini, 43, a grandson of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, talks to journalists after he registered for February's election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, at Interior Ministry in Tehran December 18, 2015./ The grandson of Ayatollah ...
- the grandson of the late Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -- has ties to reformist politicians (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said Wednesday he had lost an appeal against his exclusion from elections for the ...
Hassan Khomeini, 43, a grandson of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, talks to journalists after he registered for February's election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, at Interior Ministry in Tehran December 18, 2015./ The grandson of the Islamic ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's official news agency says that the country's constitutional watchdog has rejected an appeal by the grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder against his disqualification from running as a candidate for a top clerical body. IRNA reported Wednesday that the Guardian ...
The grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, will not be allowed to stand in this month's election in Iran after losing his appeal against a ban, the clerical vetting body said on Wednesday. Hassan Khomeini, 43, was the first member of the Khomeini family to ...
Prominent but as yet unnamed reformists are among more than 1,400 initially rejected candidates now eligible to contest Iran’s parliamentary elections on February 26, a government official said Tuesday. The new approvals raise the potential for a change in the balance of power in Iran’s ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
) — A video of a fight between a student and a substitute teacher at a Las Vegas valley high school was shared on social media Thursday, sources said. A substitute teacher and a student engaged in a fight, which was caught on camera at Valley High School in east Las Vegas. Sources indicated that ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
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 ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in ...
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 ...