ISTANBUL — Three members of Iran’s security forces were killed overnight in clashes with protesters near Tehran in the latest sign of ongoing unrest despite a nationwide Internet blackout and heavy police crackdown./ Two members of the Basij paramilitary force and a commander in Iran’s elite ...
Protests in Iran triggered by petrol price hikes last week have subsided, an Iranian judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after the elite Revolutionary Guards warned of “decisive” action if anti-government protests do not cease./ FILE PHOTO: General view of the highway, after fuel price ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Iran has gone almost entirely offline as authorities try to stem the spread of/ Protesters took to the streets shortly after the government announced an increase in by as much as 300%. Social media images ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Petrol stations, banks and shops were set on fire during protests over the weekend At least 12 people have been killed in Iran since protests against fuel price rises erupted three days ago, officials have said, although reports suggest the ...
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards warned anti-government protesters of “decisive” action if unrest over gasoline price hikes do not cease, state media said, in a hint that a harsh security crackdown could be on the cards./ FILE PHOTO: People stop their cars in a highway to show their protest ...
CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday confronted a Texas Republican lawmaker over inaction on gun violence, directly asking him why the state’s legislature seemingly puts more vigor toward stripping women’s access to abortion than it does in protecting schoolchildren. “What we want to know is ...
Celina Tebor, Ryan W. Miller and N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY/ as Salvador Ramos, 18, and said he was a resident of the heavily Latino community about 85 miles west of San Antonio. The governor said Ramos walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde around 11:30 a.m. Central time and opened ...
, bought two assault rifles on his birthday and appeared to send some ominous Instagram messages just hours before the massacre. Although Salvador Ramos was described as “quiet” by numerous people who knew him, a young woman who worked with him at Wendy’s until March detected an aggressive ...
Big snakes have even bigger appetites, but one large, swimming serpent in Indiana was recently found dead with a “huge” fish lodged in its throat, photos show. Amber Conley and Brad Walton were fueling up at Brookville Lake, about 76 miles southeast of downtown Indianapolis, when they The ...
No British official forced Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to sign a false confession, the UK government has said./ In a statement in the Commons, Foreign Office minister Amanda Milling said the UK official simply passed on the Iranian authorities' request./ "Iran made clear they would not allow her ...
This image provided by Georgia Department of Corrections shows Virgil Presnell. The life of Virgil Presnell, a Georgia man set to be executed Tuesday, May 17, 2022 for killing an 8-year-old girl should be spared, his lawyer argues, explaining that her client has significant cognitive impairments ...
A church pastor in Indiana publicly confessed to his congregation this week that he’d committed “adultery” two decades ago—but he was quickly called out by a woman who took the stage to say she had only been 16 when he preyed on her. The public confrontation that played out Sunday at the New ...
A court in Israel has charged three Palestinians with planning to kill an Israeli politician, kidnap soldiers and bomb Jerusalem's light railway./ The men belong to the militant group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip./ Israel's internal security agency, which arrested the men, also found an ...
There was a worrying rise in executions in 2021 as Covid-19 restrictions were eased, Amnesty International says, with spikes seen in Iran and Saudi Arabia./ A report by the human rights group says at least 579 executions were known to have been carried out in 18 countries - a 20% increase on the ...
This image provided by the U.S. Army shows Col. Gail Curley. When Gail Curley began her job as Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court less than a year ago, she would have expected to work mostly behind the scenes: overseeing the court’s police force and the operations of the marble-columned building ...