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What Links Iran's Killing Protesters And The Routine Of State Executions
-Editorial- In early September, before Iran's latest bout of anti-government protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, there was another, quieter demonstration: Relatives of several prisoners sentenced to death staged a sit-in outside the judiciary headquarters in Tehran, urging the authorities to waive the sentences. The crowd, which doggedly refused to disperse, included the convicts' young children.
Troll Next Door: How Iran Is Provoking Political Violence Inside Iraq
-Analysis- Political violence has been spreading in recent weeks in Iraq, in the form of both street clashes and targeted killings. The situation in Iran's neighboring country is explosive as a showdown between Shia factions threatens to spark a civil conflict. Yet tensions in Iraq go beyond differences over who will form the next government or a power struggle between parties that favor or oppose Iran, the Shia power next door.
COVID And Ukraine, A One-Two Punch That's Remaking Our World
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A New Cold War Calculus: Ukraine's Domino Effects Around The World
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Out of Cash, Iran Puts Dream Of Shia Empire On Pause
A woman in chador walks past Saman bank ATM in a sidewalk on Valiasr Street in Tehran, Iran. -Analysis- It has been two years since a U.S. drone strike on a convoy in Iraq killed the Iranian Revolutionary guards commander Qasem Soleimani and 10 others, including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, one of the heads of the Iran-backed militia, Hashd al-shaabi.
♀️ 😔 YOUNG WOMEN FACE THE BRUNT OF THE COVID-19 MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
January 22-23 Navalny saga & Putin’s intentions COVID’s toll on teenage girls A 50-year-old book fee finally gets paid … and much more! 🎲 BUT FIRST, A NEWS QUIZ! What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Which two words did U.S. President Joe Biden use about possible scenarios in the Russia-Ukraine standoff that upset authorities in Kyiv? 2. What started to mysteriously appear on signs, statues and monuments across Adelaide, Australia? 3.
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January 22-23 Navalny saga & Putin‚Äôs intentions COVID‚Äôs toll on teenage girls A 50-year-old book fee finally gets paid ‚Ķ and much more! ūüé≤ BUT FIRST, A NEWS QUIZ! What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Which two words did U.S. President Joe Biden use about possible scenarios in the Russia-Ukraine standoff that upset authorities in Kyiv? 2. What started to mysteriously appear on signs, statues and monuments across Adelaide, Australia? 3.
Omicron Reinfection Rates, Abortion To Supreme Court, Battleaxosaurus
👋 Håfa adai!* Welcome to Thursday, where new Omicron findings arrive from South Africa, abortion rights are at risk at the U.S. Supreme Court and Tyrannosaurus rex has got some new competition. From Germany, we share the story of a landmark pharmacy turned sex toy museum.
Uranium enrichment for military motives
-Analysis- After a four-month hiatus, Iran has resumed talks on its nuclear program with other signatory countries of the suspended, multilateral pact of 2015. These are Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, and the European Union (EU). The talks that began this week in Vienna exclude the United States, an original signatory that withdrew from the pact in 2018 — and while the U.S. administration under President Joe Biden says it favors a deal, it is only indirectly involved, through the EU.
Plan B? Why Iran Thinks It Has The West Cornered On Nuclear Deal
BUENOS AIRES — Pretty much everyone has at least heard of goulash, the Hungarian meat stew served in cafés the world over. But who invented it? Impossible to say. What we do know is that it's a recipe born from necessity: the need, in this case, to slowly cook dried or lesser quality meat until tender. Indeed, many famous dishes originated this way, from people having to make do with what they had.
Plan B? Why Iran Thinks It Has The West Cornered On Nuclear Deal
-Analysis- It was a declaration of excessive optimism. Speaking in Doha on Sep. 30, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, said that nuclear negotiations with Iran would resume "within an acceptable period of time." Talks on reviving the 2015 pact to keep checks on Iran's nuclear program had ground to a halt before June's election of the very conservative Ibrahim Raisi as Iran's president.
As Hopes For Iran Nuclear Deal Fade, Uranium Enrichment Accelerates
👋 Laba diena!* Welcome to Wednesday, where Afghanistan's Taliban demand to speak at the United Nations, China takes a bold ecological stand and we find out why monkeys kept their tails and humans didn't. Business magazine America Economia also looks at how Latin American countries are looking to attract a new generation of freelancers known as "digital nomads" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We Won't Be Silenced" - Afghan Women Vow To Resist Taliban
Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at the presentation of the current 2 Euro commemorative coin ''Brandenburg'' BERLIN — Germans are doing better than ever.
Next In Kabul: Locals Brace For Taliban Rule
A policeman walks along the site where Afghan senior government official Dawa Khan Menapal was shot dead in Kabul, Afghanistan As the Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday and President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan, Reuters reported that the Islamist militants are close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a U.S.-led invasion.
Iran Protests Are Real, But Is The West Willing To Listen?
Throughout the pandemic, local neighborhoods have played a critical and well-documented role providing the health and social services necessary for American communities and businesses to survive and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Gay neighborhoods were particularly well equipped to meet this challenge, according to our latest research on these communities.
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