The Quds Force member was shot five times outside his home in Tehran. Sayyad Khodaei, a colonel in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite foreign operations squad, the Quds Force, has been shot dead by a pair of motorcycle-mounted assassins outside his home on Mojahedin-e Eslam Street in Tehran, Iranian state media reported on Sunday ... .
As a journalist, she spent decades bravely reporting on life under occupation in her home country -- and now Israel is basically signaling that killing Palestinians is OK ...Join the global outcry now and let’s get an international investigation into Shireen’s murder ...Sign now and share all around.
SEOUL, South Korea – Monkeypox has caught the attention of US PresidentJoe Biden, who said Sunday that people should be on guard against the disease which has the potential for “consequential” impact, if it were to spread further. AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN ... .
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KYIV ... But both Finland and Sweden are now apparently on the fast track to join the military alliance, with Biden this week offering "full, total, complete backing" to their bids ... In Severodonetsk, a frontline city now at risk of encirclement, 12 people were killed and another 40 wounded by Russian shelling, said regional governor Sergiy Gaiday ... ....
Lying is effectively a standard practice for diplomats in “real world,” Michael McFaul says ... The veteran diplomat made the revelation in a public policy forum, the semi-annual Munk Debates, earlier this month in Toronto ... Read more NATO expansion ‘not a threat’ – Biden ... “We kept saying that, over and over again.” ... .
Below the dusty plateau, home to Khribet al-Fakhiet village, on the southern edge of the occupied West Bank, sheep, goats and camels belonging to Palestinian Bedouin roam the hills ...Mohammed Ayoub, a farmer, and 17 members of his extended family in Fakhiet were made homeless in the space of 30 minutes, and all are now living in a single tent ... .
TOKYO, May 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. PresidentJoe Biden arrived in Japan on Sunday, as about 750 protesters took to the streets here against the planned U.S.-Japan summit and the summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) ...Japanese public opinion, however, seemingly does not favor the IPEF too much ... Enditem .
KABUL. Female presenters on Afghanistan's leading television channels went on air on Saturday without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam...Previously, they had only been required to wear a headscarf ... ....
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It now insists that Russia must be held accountable for its actions in invading Ukraine... they have little say, end up as collateral damage when powerful countries disregard it, as we are now experiencing with the war in Ukraine, simply because we, too, occupy that global space.
Cargill, which is one of the world’s largest food traders, now counts 12 family members as billionaires, up from eight before the pandemic.The Cargill family, along with three other companies, controls 70% of the global agricultural market ...Photograph. Oxfam ... Two litres of cooking oil, last month was 2,600 kwacha, now it is 7,500. Imagine ... .
Max Verstappen has won the Spanish Grand Prix and taken the lead in the F1 world championship after Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was forced out of the race. Leclerc started on pole position and appeared to be cruising to victory before his engine suddenly lost power and he was forced to retire and return to the pits ... "Shock on the Ferrari pitwall ... .
Damien Abad, France's newly appointed minister for Solidarity and the Disabled, on Sunday strongly denied he had raped two women, following accusations published by the Mediapart website in an article based on interviews with the women. ... The actions happened in late 2010 and early 2011, they said ... "I will be very clear ... .
Australia's new leader has vowed to take the country in a new direction, with a big shift in climate policy. Anthony Albanese, who won Saturday's election with the opposition centre-left Labor Party, said Australia could become a renewable energy superpower ... "We have an opportunity now to end the climate wars in Australia ... The basics ... .
Pakistan’s former human rights minister was arrested on Saturday in the capital over a decades-old land grabbing allegation, her daughter and another former minister said ... She said ... Footage on local Geo TV showed female police officers detaining Mazari ... TopicsPakistanSouth and central Asianews ... .