Seven candidates have been allowed to stand in Iran's presidential election this month. Hundreds registered but were disqualified by the election watchdog, the Guardian Council. Of those who were approved, five are hardliners./ The two other candidates are a "moderate" - a term applied to those ...
President Biden called out Republican lawmakers Thursday who he said have been "bragging" about provisions of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, despite voting against it. "Even my Republican friends in Congress, not a single one voted for the rescue plan," Biden said at an event in ...
approved the confirmation of Christine Wormuth as Army secretary by unanimous consent Wednesday – before the body canceled her confirmation just hours later in a strange development. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced the reversal Wednesday, according to of the proceedings. He ...
Andrew Blankstein and Pete Williams and David K. Li and Matthew Mulligan and Jonathan Dienst and Emma Thorne/ fire on co-workers at a Northern California rail yard Wednesday, killing more than a half-dozen people before taking his own life, authorities said. Calls of shots fired came about 6:34 ...
Iran has announced a four-month ban on the energy-consuming mining of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin after cities suffered unplanned blackouts./ President Hassan Rouhani told a cabinet meeting the main cause of the blackouts was a drought that had affected hydro-electric power generation./ But ...
A presidential election is taking place in government-held parts of Syria, with Bashar al-Assad seen as certain to win a fourth seven-year term./ Mr Assad is facing two little-known challengers, Abdullah Salloum Abdullah and Mahmoud Ahmed Mari./ The poll has been dismissed as a farce by the ...
Samira Dajani and Adel Budeiri's garden feels like an oasis - a peaceful place of bougainvillea, lavender and shady fruit trees at the centre of a furious, incendiary dispute which helped to trigger a conflict./ The Palestinian couple's single-storey stone house in the East Jerusalem ...
The US will help rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to consolidate the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups, the secretary of state says./ After meeting Israel's prime minister, Antony Blinken said it was necessary to tackle the grave humanitarian situation to prevent a return ...
More than five years after an Italian student's body was found in Cairo, a Rome judge says four senior Egyptian security officials should face trial over his kidnap, torture and murder./ Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University postgraduate student, disappeared in January 2016./ His body was so ...
Joe Biden (L) and Vladimir Putin (composite image)/ Joe Biden said last month that he would be meeting face to face with Russian President Vladimir Putin at some point soon. Now we have a date - and a location. The first US-Russia summit of the Biden presidency will take place in Geneva, ...
