came to an end this week when one of the country's main opposition figures announced he would go on hunger strike to protest his detainment under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011, piling pressure on/ , 79, is one of the leaders of the opposition Green Movement, the popular protest movement ...
Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karrubi, who has been under house arrest for more than six years, has ended a hunger strike, his son says. Mohammad Taghi Karrubi tweeted on August 17 that his father called off the strike after authorities promised to withdraw security agents from his home. ...
report/ ANKARA (Reuters) - Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi called off his hunger strike on Thursday after authorities accepted one of his demands and withdrew security agents from his home where he has been held since 2011, his website said. Karroubi was hospitalised earlier in the day ...
One of Iran’s leading opposition politicians was hospitalized Thursday, hours after beginning a hunger strike to protest his prolonged house arrest. Mehdi Karroubi, a 79-year-old who suffers from heart disease and was recently outfitted with a pacemaker, had stopped eating in a bid to force ...
This photo taken on June 12, 2009 shows Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi casting his ballot at a polling station in Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)/ An Iranian opposition leader who has spent years under house arrest was hospitalized early Thursday after he began a hunger ...
Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karrubi, who has been under house arrest for more than six years, has begun a hunger strike, his family says. Karrubi's son, Mohammad Taghi Karrubi, said that the 79-year-old cleric has stopped eating since the morning of August 16 because he wants to be put on ...
Former Parliament speaker and Iran's presidential election candidate Mehdi Karroubi looks at his ballot paper before casting his vote, during the Iranian presidential election in northern Tehran June 12, 2009./ LONDON (Reuters) - Mehdi Karroubi, a detained Iranian opposition leader, started a ...
(FILES) This file photo taken on June 12, 2009 shows Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi casting his ballot at a polling station in Tehran. Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for the past six years, was hospitalised on August 17, 2017 after going on hunger ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening. The choir director, a fixture at St. Maria Goretti for nearly 40 years, was suddenly ...
Spiralling tensions and cross-border strikes which have killed more than 70 civilians in Lebanon have turned parts of south into ghost towns. Residents have fled, leaving their homes at risk of destruction. The BBC went on patrol with the UN's peacekeeping force there to see what has happened./ ...
, the veteran ABC News meteorologist who provided weather updates for , has been fired by the network, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Daily Beast. ABC News gave Marciano the boot on Tuesday following complaints from multiple network staffers over his behavior, sources noted. ...
Thick murky clouds fill the sky, with freezing winds carrying snow faster than 100 miles per hour. With a frigid –30 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, life-threatening snowstorms and avalanches are frequent. And these are typical conditions on the world’s highest mountain: Mount Everest. The ...
Cheng "Charlie" Saephan holds display check above his head after speaking during a news conference where it was revealed that he was one of the winners of the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot at the Oregon Lottery headquarters on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)/ ...
The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing./ All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war./ Israel took ...
Nika was just 16 years old when she disappeared during protests against Iran's strict dress code for women [Atash Shakarami]/ An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran's security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces ...
A popular metro Atlanta Waffle House abruptly shut its doors down for good on Monday, The Waffle House below Eddie’s Attic on Decatur Square closed Monday at 2 p.m. A sign on the door confirms the closure and suggests other nearby Waffle House stores./ Staffers told the publication that they ...
It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when – is rapidly weakening and will all but vanish by the time the season kicks into gear. El Niño’s disappearing act doesn’t mean relief from the heat. Not when the world is heating up due to climate change. In ...
, the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, emerged early on as a natural advocate for supporting her native country in its war with Russia. But when effort came up for a vote in the House recently, she voted against it. Instead she has called for better oversight of U.S. funds and ...