DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Vote counting began in Iran on Saturday after a high turnout in an unexpectedly tight presidential election pitting President Hassan Rouhani, who wants to normalize ties with the West, against a hardline judge who says he has already gone too far. More than 40 million ...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani gestures as he registers to run for a second four-year term in the May election, in Tehran, Iran, April 14, 2017. President.ir/Handout/File Photo via/ Known for years as a mild-mannered cleric, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has reinvented himself as a ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes part in a news conference near the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday urged Iran's powerful Revolutionary ...
Iranian Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi (L) and Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf gesture during a campaign meeting at the Mosalla mosque in Tehran, Iran, May 16, 2017. Picture taken May 16, 2017. TIMA via/ A supporter of Iranian Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi holds his poster ...
Iranians vote on Friday in a bitter presidential contest between pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani and hardline challenger Ebrahim Raisi that could determine the pace of economic and social reform and Iran's re-engagement with the world. In a warning reflecting rising political tensions amid ...
Iranians wait in a queue for the opening of the polling station to cast their ballots for the presidential elections in Tehran/ Iran voted today in a landmark election in which the result will shape the country’s future at a pivotal time and have significant repercussions far beyond its borders. ...
laden world of money management, the Vanguard Group has long enjoyed a reputation of shooting straight. When Jack Bogle founded Vanguard almost 50 years ago, the idea was to create a company owned by its investors — aligning the company’s and customers’ incentives That unique model, unlike ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of the 22-year-old Shani’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and ...
The latest Social Security Trustees report spurs angst about the program's solvency./ The new report on Social Security, which predicts that the combined retirement and disability trust fund reserves in 2035, has put more Americans on edge, especially those nearing retirement who are worrying ...
A homeless man on parole for an assault conviction dragged a jogger by her hair on a beach near before attempting to rape her earlier this week, police said. The alleged incident occurred at around 7:15 a.m. on the Ocean Front Walk in Santa Monica. Witnesses told a 911 dispatcher that a woman, ...
's administration said Thursday it will now cost more than $20 billion to build a giant tunnel aimed at catching more water when it rains and storing it to better prepare for longer droughts caused by climate change. State regulators have been trying to build some version of for decades. The ...
A former Orlando police officer, David Arenas, passed away earlier this week after jumping into Lake Minneola in Clermont. Arenas served with the department from 1992 until his retirement as a lieutenant in 2020. The tragic incident occurred on Monday, May 13, while Arenas was enjoying the water ...
Colonial Williamsburg American Revolution Barracks/ WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls indented with soldiers' teeth. The site is on the ...
Watch a previous NBC4 report on O’Charley’s Ohio closures in the video player above. ) — A national steakhouse, which once operated several central Ohio restaurants that shuttered after the chain filed for bankruptcy, is returning to Columbus after purchasing a former O’Charley’s that closed ...
on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and drawing praises from consumers. wrote the majority opinion, ...
Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday May 15, 2024. France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The measures imposed on Wednesday for at least 12 days boost security forces' powers to quell deadly unrest that has left four ...