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Mourners begin days of funerals for Iran's president and others killed in helicopter crash
Read full article: Mourners begin days of funerals for Iran's president and others killed in helicopter crashMourners have begun the days of funerals and processions for Iran’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash.
Who is Mohammad Mokhber, appointed Iran's acting president after a helicopter crash?
Read full article: Who is Mohammad Mokhber, appointed Iran's acting president after a helicopter crash?Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has been appointed acting president of the Islamic Republic after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
Has Salman Rushdie changed after his stabbing? Well, he feels about 25, the author tells AP
Read full article: Has Salman Rushdie changed after his stabbing? Well, he feels about 25, the author tells APNearly two years after the shocking knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears both changed and very much the same.
Transgender inclusion? World's major religions take varying stances on policies toward trans people
Read full article: Transgender inclusion? World's major religions take varying stances on policies toward trans peopleThe Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex.
US porn actor who advocates for Palestinians visits Iran on trip unacknowledged by Tehran
Read full article: US porn actor who advocates for Palestinians visits Iran on trip unacknowledged by TehranAn American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel’s war on Hamas traveled to Iran and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Iran launches 3 satellites into space that are part of a Western-criticized program as tensions rise
Read full article: Iran launches 3 satellites into space that are part of a Western-criticized program as tensions riseIran says it has successfully launched three satellites into space, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles.
US quietly acknowledges Iran satellite successfully reached orbit as tensions remain high
Read full article: US quietly acknowledges Iran satellite successfully reached orbit as tensions remain highThe United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program.
Prosecutors drop charges against Bijan Kian, a onetime business partner of Michael Flynn
Read full article: Prosecutors drop charges against Bijan Kian, a onetime business partner of Michael FlynnFederal prosecutors have dropped charges against a onetime business partner of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Critics reject changes to Roald Dahl books as censorship
Read full article: Critics reject changes to Roald Dahl books as censorshipCritics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Matilda” to make them more acceptable to modern readers.
Report: Salman Rushdie lives, but loses use of eye and hand
Read full article: Report: Salman Rushdie lives, but loses use of eye and handSalman Rushdie's agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at an August literary event in western New York.
Iran's Olympic chief claims no punishment coming for climber
Read full article: Iran's Olympic chief claims no punishment coming for climberThe president of Iran’s national Olympic committee has claimed that competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi will not be punished or suspended after competing in South Korea over the weekend without wearing her nation’s mandatory headscarf.
Prosecutors review 'voluminous' evidence in Rushdie attack
Read full article: Prosecutors review 'voluminous' evidence in Rushdie attackThe criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors say they need more time to review it.
Iran deal tantalizingly close but US faces new hurdles
Read full article: Iran deal tantalizingly close but US faces new hurdlesLast week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to murder former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet
Read full article: Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quietIranians are reacting with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie — the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death.
Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York
Read full article: Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New YorkSalman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.
Longtime AP correspondent, editor Marcus Eliason dies at 75
Read full article: Longtime AP correspondent, editor Marcus Eliason dies at 75Marcus Eliason, a journalist whose insightful reporting, sparkling prose and skillful editing graced Associated Press news wires for almost a half-century, has died.
Satellite images suggest Iran preparing for rocket launch
Read full article: Satellite images suggest Iran preparing for rocket launchIran appears to be readying for a space launch as satellite images showed a rocket on a rural desert launch pad, just as tensions remain high over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies
Read full article: Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, diesAbolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, has died.
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020
Read full article: Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020They were among many religious leaders — some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally — who died in 2020. It occurred in April, during a period in which numerous Church of God in Christ bishops and pastors died of COVID-19. 2 leader, Bishop Amfilohije -- who also died after COVID-19 complications -- both downplayed the dangers of the pandemic and avoided wearing masks in public. Edward Kmiec, 84, who between 1992 and 2012 served as the Roman Catholic bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, and Buffalo, New York. John Yambasu, 63, a bishop of the United Methodist Church in Sierra Leone who died in a traffic accident in August.
Iran doctor freed in swap for Navy veteran returns to Tehran
Read full article: Iran doctor freed in swap for Navy veteran returns to TehranWhite, a Navy veteran who's been detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and is making his way home, with the first leg on a Swiss government aircraft. (U.S. State Department via AP)TEHRAN TEHRAN, IranAn Iranian doctor based in Florida returned to his homeland Monday after being part of a swap that saw a U.S. Navy veteran held by Iran return to America. He was also accused of structuring a series of bank deposits below $10,000 to evade reporting requirements under federal law. Iran allowed Michael White, of Imperial Beach, California, to leave the country Thursday. Earlier last week, an Iranian scientist named Sirous Asgari separately returned to Tehran after being acquitted in a federal trade secrets case and deported.
Iran remembers 1979 Islamic Revolution amid high US tension
Read full article: Iran remembers 1979 Islamic Revolution amid high US tension(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)TEHRAN – Hundreds of thousands across Iran marked the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Tuesday amid some of the highest tensions ever between Tehran and the U.S. in the past four decades. The shoot down also marred funeral processions that drew millions of mourners for Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad. In November, protesters angered by Iran raising government-set gasoline prices by 50% blocked traffic in major cities and occasionally clashed with police. A series of attacks across the Mideast culminated with the U.S. launching the drone strike that killed Soleimani in January. "You are too desperate to bring Iran to its knees.”Iran’s Islamic Revolution began with widespread unrest over the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.