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Iran is spinning out of control, just like the last days of the Shah

Thursday 19-01-2023 01:04 PM

The last days of the Shah of Iran have become a cautionary tale. The absolute ruler of Iran, who had the best equipped army in the Islamic Middle East, extreme oil wealth, and the backing of the ...

Saved from death at sea, Syrian refugees face deportation

Wednesday 18-01-2023 05:25 PM

On New Year’s Eve, a small boat carrying more than 230 would-be migrants, most of them Syrians, broke down and began to sink after setting sail from the northern coast of Lebanon. Since the ...

Iran arrests German for photographing oil facility

Wednesday 18-01-2023 05:17 PM

A German national has been arrested in Iran after photographing an oil facility, two semi-official news agencies reported on Tuesday. The Tasnim news agency and the Student News Network, ...

Iran welcomes steps toward Turkey-Syria reconciliation

Wednesday 18-01-2023 05:09 PM

Iran welcomes steps toward a reconciliation between Turkey and Syria and is ready to help move the efforts forward, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Tuesday. The Iranian ...

UN: Al-Qaida and Islamic State driving insecurity in Mali

Wednesday 18-01-2023 04:45 PM

Al-Qaida and Islamic State extremist groups are driving insecurity in central Mali and continue to clash near populated areas in the northern Gao and Menaka regions, the U.N. chief said in a new ...

Senior Iranian ex-diplomats expressing open criticism of regime

Wednesday 18-01-2023 04:30 PM

Senior former Iranian diplomats are expressing open criticism of their government, warning that by failing to revive the nuclear deal and supplying drones to Russia in Ukraine, the country risks ...

Iranian-American Prisoner in Tehran Starts Hunger Strike

Wednesday 18-01-2023 03:54 PM

The longest-held American prisoner in Iran began what he said would be a weeklong hunger strike on Monday to demand his immediate release, appealing directly to President Biden to negotiate ...

Zelensky adviser quits after claim Ukraine shot down missile that hit flats

Wednesday 18-01-2023 03:41 PM

A high-profile Ukrainian presidential adviser has resigned after he sparked fury by saying that a Russian missile that killed dozens of people was deflected on to a block of flats by Ukraine’s air ...

Shamima Begum tells her story in new podcast I’m Not a Monster

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:49 PM

The BBC series features testimony from the former Isis recruit and those who know her “I felt like I was not inside my body, it felt like a dream,” says Shamima Begum of the moment she left ...

Turkey seeks to reassure allies on Nato enlargement

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:44 PM

Turkey has called on Sweden and Finland to do more to settle a dispute over the Nordic pair’s bid to join Nato and said expansion of the military alliance was vital to stability in its own ...

UK weighs designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:37 PM

Foreign secretary James Cleverly says Tehran will be ‘held to account’ after execution of Iranian-British man UK foreign secretary James Cleverly on Monday warned the Iranian government it ...

Qatar's German Empire

Tuesday 17-01-2023 04:11 PM

Last summer, as European media became increasingly critical of Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup, Doha decided to go on the offensive and dispatched Hassan Al Thawadi, the event’s chief organizer, ...

Qatargate: Italian court rules Panzeri’s daughter can be extradited

Tuesday 17-01-2023 03:52 PM

An Italian court ruled Monday that the daughter of former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri can be extradited to Belgium for charges in the alleged Qatar corruption investigation engulfing the European ...

South Korea president, in UAE, backs return to nuclear power

Tuesday 17-01-2023 03:46 PM

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Monday that his nation’s efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 would rely in part on returning to nuclear power, even though his predecessor had tried to ...

John Kerry tells AP he backs UAE oil chief overseeing COP28

Tuesday 17-01-2023 03:33 PM

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’ decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over the upcoming U.N. climate negotiations in Dubai, citing his ...