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Trump tweets video with 'white power' chant, then deletes it

Iran MP offers USD 3 mn ‘to anyone who kills Trump’: report

11:55 pm January 21, 2020

Tehran: An Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday offered a USD 3-million reward to “anyone who kills” US President Donald Trump to avenge the assassination of a top general, semi-official news agency ISNA reported. Ahmad Hamzeh, a little-known member of the Majlis, made the offer on behalf of the people of Kerman, the hometown and final resting place of […]

Iraq officials: 9 wounded, protesters take a Baghdad highway

7:40 pm January 21, 2020

Baghdad: Iraqi riot police opened fire on Tuesday amid clashes with anti-government protesters on a central Baghdad highway, wounding at least nine, officials said, the latest since violence erupted again last week between demonstrators and security forces. The clashes on the key Mohammed al-Qassim highway broke out when riot police moved in to disperse a […]

Iran backtracks on plan to send flight recorders to Ukraine

7:24 pm January 19, 2020

Tehran: The Iranian official leading the investigation into the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down by the Revolutionary Guard appeared to backtrack Sunday on plans to send the flight recorders abroad for analysis, a day after saying they would be sent to Kiev. Hassan Rezaeifar was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency as […]

Officials, activists say 2 Iraqi protesters killed

11:20 am January 18, 2020

Baghdad: Two protesters were killed and over a dozen wounded in central Baghdad on Friday in renewed violence between anti-government demonstrators and Iraqi security forces, activists and officials said. The deaths follow weeks of calm. Riot police fired tear gas and hurled sound bombs to disperse crowds on the strategic Sinak Bridge after protesters attempted […]

Khamenei: Mass Ramadan events in Iran may stop over virus

Khamenei to lead Friday prayers amid Iranian tumult

8:23 pm January 17, 2020

Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader is expected to lead the main weekly Muslim prayers in Tehran on Friday, after a traumatic month in which the country had appeared on the brink of war with the United States and accidentally downed a Ukrainian passenger jet. The last time Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday prayers at Tehran’s Mosalla […]