ran’s government has accused a British-Iranian academic arrested in Tehran of being a “member of a British spy network”. Abbas Edalat, a professor at Imperial College London, and is believed to be in the custody of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Iranian authorities acknowledged for the first time ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ A British-Iranian academic has been arrested by security forces in Tehran, according to Iran's semi-official FARS news agency, potentially further stoking tensions with the West ahead of US President ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ An Iranian-British academic detained in Iran was arrested for spying, according to Iranian news agencies, quoting an "unidentified informed source". Abbas Edalat, a professor at London's Imperial College, was reportedly detained on 15 April ...
Iranian academic from Imperial College London has been arrested in Iran, becoming the latest of dozens of dual nationals taken into custody by Tehran since the 2015 nuclear deal. Abbas Edalat, a professor of computer science and mathematics, was in Iran for an academic workshop when he was ...
Iran seized a prominent British-Iranian scholar during his visit there this month, a rights group said Wednesday, an arrest that may further stoke tensions with the West over President Trump’s threat to scrap the 2015 nuclear accord. The scholar, Abbas Edalat, an award-winning professor of ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Abbas Edalat was reportedly attending an academic workshop in Tehran, Iran, when he was detained The Foreign Office has said it is urgently looking into reports that a British-Iranian man has been detained in Iran. Abbas Edalat, a professor ...
Abbas Edalat, a professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College in London, had been detained by the Iran's Revolutionary Guards. (Reuters)/ Britain’s Foreign Office (FCO) said on Wednesday it was urgently seeking information from Iran following reports of the detention of a ...
A British-Iranian academic was detained in Iran by the country’s Revolutionary Guards in mid-April, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) reported on Wednesday. Britain’s Foreign Office (FCO) said it was urgently seeking information from Iran about the reported arrest of ...
Arrest of dual Iranian-U.K. citizen comes at pivotal moment in nuclear diplomacy/ UNITED NATIONS—Iran has arrested a British-Iranian dual citizen who traveled to Tehran from London on an invitation to speak at an academic workshop, according to friends of his family and human-rights ...
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The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
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 ...