Iran has shut down what officials reportedly thought was a branch of the U.S. fast food chain KFC. Iranian media reported that the restaurant, called Halal KFC, opened on November 1 in Tehran only to close a day later. Police claimed KFC Halal had been operating "under a false license," while ...
Iranian police mistakenly shuttered a KFC Halal thinking the chicken restaurant was associated with the American KFC, owned by Yum! Brands./ A fast food chicken restaurant in Iran using the brand name of U.S. fast food giant KFC was shuttered just days after it opened because its interior ...
branded restaurant was shut down in Iran on Tuesday roughly 36 hours after opening for business, according to local media. The restaurant created a stir on social media and raised alarm among conservatives who are wary of what they regard as unwanted American influence./ The owner told Tasnim ...
A fried chicken shop using the name KFC Halal is shut down in Iran after three days as US fast food chains reportedly explore the possibility of opening branches in the country (AFP Photo/Asif Hassan)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iranian police have swooped in to shutter a fried chicken shop using the brand ...
This was doubtless the shortest run a branch of fast food conglomerate KFC has ever had. As a tweet by the Iranian news agency Tasnim reveals, the store in West Tehran closed its doors today, within 24 hours of opening them, which has to be a record. So what was the problem? Too much brown in ...
Israeli hostage Edan Alexander reunites with family/ Hamas has released an Israeli-American hostage held captive for 19 months to Israeli forces as part of efforts to reach a new ceasefire deal, the group said. Edan Alexander, 21, had been serving in the Israeli army on the border of Gaza when ...
backed assessment has said that Gaza's population of around 2.1 million Palestinians is at "critical risk" of famine and faces "extreme levels of food insecurity" as an Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid continues. The latest report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...
Moment BBC has tense encounter with sanctioned Israeli settler/ Dust was rising on the track. It hung in the hot midday air as the white jeep came towards us. The driver was less than a minute away. "I think it's Moshe Sharvit," said Gil Alexander, 72, a devout religious Jew who tries to protect ...
A picture of Edan Alexander can be seen at a demonstration in Israel calling for the release of the remaining hostages/ Hamas says it will release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, who is believed to be the last living captive with US nationality in Gaza, as a part of efforts to reach a ...
The talks between Abbas Araghchi and Steve Witkoff in Oman lasted more than three hours/ A fourth round of talks between the US and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme have taken place in Oman, with both sides agreeing to meet again. US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff said the discussions in ...
A third of the community kitchens in Gaza - one of the last lifelines - have been forced to shut down over the past two weeks/ The US has confirmed that a new system for providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza through private companies is being prepared, as Israel's blockade continues ...
Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent home from the schools in Shuafat refugee camp/ Armed Israeli security forces have forced the closure of three schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent ...
Hostages' families have urged Israel's prime minister to agree another deal with Hamas rather than expand the Gaza offensive/ Israel's prime minister has said there is "uncertainty" about the condition of three of 24 hostages previously believed to be alive in Hamas captivity in Gaza. Benjamin ...
Police block the entrance to the Israeli embassy during a protest in March/ The Israeli embassy in London was the alleged target of five Iranian men arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism, the BBC understands. Police have not yet confirmed that the embassy in Kensington was the ...
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed during 13 years of civil war/ "These," says Dr Anas al-Hourani, "are from a mixed mass grave." The head of the newly-opened Syrian Identification Centre is standing next to two tables, covered in femurs. There are 32 of the human thigh bones on each ...