Emergency personnel transport the injured following a shooting attack at Iran's Shah Cheragh shrine in By Maziar Motamedi Tehran, Iran – A holy shrine in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz has come under a second deadly attack in less than a year with another gunman breaking into its grounds and opening fire. In early June, Iran executed two men said to have been in contact with ISIL operatives in neighbouring Last year’s assault on the shrine also came as Iran was rocked by nationwide protests that started in

120,000 Armenian Christians Are Trapped as Azerbaijan Takes Nagorno Karabakh Christian Solidarity International emergency response at today’s UN Security Council meeting: An immediate humanitarian airlift to evacuate trapped

Abdalla Hamdok, former prime minister of Sudan, has called for urgent action in the country, where more than Civilian Democratic Forces (Taqaddum), warned that “people could die from hunger and starvation more than 2021, Gen Al Burhan, who leads the armed forces, broke with a civilian-military coalition charged with transitioning Iran had strong ties with Al Bashir. Mr Hamdok said Iran’s involvement in Sudan stopped “for a while” after Al Bashir was toppled, but “they

Strengthen Protections, End Asylum Pact with US A transgender woman shows a photograph of Camila Díaz It allows US immigration authorities to transfer non-Salvadoran asylum seekers to El Salvador, instead But for some groups, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, El Salvador provides down the government’s sexual diversity work, and refused to support legal gender recognition for trans Despite the landmark conviction of three police officers in July for killing a trans woman, violence

Iran’s 2022 Protest Crackdown Included Killings, Torture and Rape, U.N. looking into the demonstrations that followed the death of Mahsa Amini found brutality and rejected Iran The fact-finding team, which was set up at the end of 2022, was refused access to Iran. The worst abuses, the mission found, were carried out in unofficial places of detention run by Iran’s The news came a day after Iran released on bail two journalists who helped break Amini’s story .

The mourners who gathered in Yazd last month and in many other cities across Iran diverged unexpectedly from the script to target the clerical rulers of Iran, turning religious ballads into protest songs , Iran, Iran!” For centuries Ashura has been more than just a religious ritual. From Iran, to Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and beyond, it has served as a celebration of Shiite Muslim

Iranian lawmakers attend an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. © AP Photo / Vahid Salemi DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Monday began registering candidates Iran has held regular presidential and parliamentary elections since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran saw months of nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini , a 22-year-old woman who Iran has been mired in a severe economic crisis since then-President Donald Trump withdrew the United

(Sam Mednick/Associated Press) Pope Francis is offering 460,000 euros (more than $500,000) in aid for

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Australian defence department plans to spend almost $400,000 on English lessons, event attendances and training Myanmar in non-combat areas, with a focus on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, peacekeeping training and English language training. who are directly implicated in the violence against the Rohingyacould benefit from Australian-funded training to course requirements and visa processes, “the Tatmadaw nominates personnel to fill Australia-based training

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran executed on Monday four men convicted of planning sabotage and alleged links with African country before entering Iran, it said. Iran and Israel have accused each other of spying and waging a shadow war for years. Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies it is seeking such weapons and has vowed a harsh response to any aggression.

KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH (AP) The US has announced more than 500 new sanctions against Russia over its invasion powering Russia's war effort, developing the country's future energy production and its co-operation with Iran The EU has now listed more than 2,000 individuals since the war started. "They depend on us more than we depend on them." Its economy is around 1% larger than it was in February 2022.