RIYADH: Saudi King Salman said on Sunday the kingdom was working hard to support stability and balance in oil markets, including by establishing and maintaining the agreement of the OPEC+ alliance. King Salman bin Abdulaziz said in an address to the kingdom’s advisory Shura Council that his country was a mediator of peace and highlighted […]
CAIRO: A towering blaze at a notorious prison housing political prisoners and anti-government activists in Iran’s capital killed four inmates, the country’s judiciary said Sunday. Flames and smoke rising from Tehran’s Evin Prison had been widely visible Saturday evening, as nationwide anti-government protests triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody entered […]
PARIS: A fire and clashes erupted at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison Saturday night as the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini‘s death in custody entered a fifth week. The facility in northern Tehran is infamous for the ill-treatment of political prisoners and also holds foreign detainees. Hundreds of those detained during the demonstrations over Amini’s […]
PARIS: Demonstrators took to streets across Iran again Saturday over Mahsa Amini‘s death in custody despite internet cuts, as the protest movement enters a fifth week. Amini’s death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by Iran’s notorious morality police, has fuelled the biggest wave of street protests and violence seen in the […]
JENIN: Israeli forces killed two Palestinian gunmen and another man they said was armed in two separate incidents on Friday, as months of clashes in the occupied West Bank continued. An Israeli military statement said troops came under heavy fire during an operation in the city of Jenin, in which an armed operative of the […]
TEHRAN: A member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and a Basij militiaman were killed early Friday while chasing individuals spray-painting slogans during protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, state media reported. They “were martyred while on duty” in the southern province of Fars, state news agency IRNA said. Their deaths bring to at least 20 […]
TEHRAN: They show up at the first signs of protest in Iran — men in black, riding motorcycles, often wielding guns or batons. They are members of what’s known as the Basij, paramilitary volunteers who are fiercely loyal to the Islamic Republic. The shock troops of the ayatollahs have taken on a leading role in […]
BAGHDAD: Despite a rocket attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone, Iraqi lawmakers Thursday elected a new president in hopes of ending a year of political gridlock and violence in the war-scarred nation. Iraqi Kurd Abdel Latif Rashid, 78, was elected as the new Iraqi head of state, replacing Barham Saleh, by the assembly in the capital’s […]
NICOSIA: At least 28 children have been killed in protests that have swept Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini, with hundreds more mostly detained in adult prisons, rights groups inside and outside the country said. Amini, 22, was pronounced dead days after the notorious morality police detained the Iranian Kurd last month for allegedly […]
BRUSSELS: EU countries have agreed sanctions on Iran following its brutal crackdown on protests over Mahsa Amini’s death and foreign ministers are to adopt them next Monday, diplomats said. Earlier on Wednesday European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said “now is the time to sanction those responsible” in Iran “for the repression of women”. […]
