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French-Iranian academic imprisoned for years in Iran returns to France
PARIS (AP) — French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who was detained for years in Iran, has returned to France, the political sciences institute Sciences Po announced Wednesday. Adelkhah, an anthropologist who was arrested in 2019 on security charges, arrived in France on...
Live updates | Day 5 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Hamas militants beheaded soldiers and raped women in their attack on Israel, and he vowed that Israel would “crush and destroy” Hamas in response to the attack. Netanyahu said every Hamas member was a “dead man.” ...
Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam's prophet
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others, authorities said, in one of the country's deadliest attacks...
Iran's president says US should ease sanctions to demonstrate it wants to return to nuclear deal
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Wednesday that relations with the United States can move forward if the Biden administration demonstrates it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and a first step should be easing sanctions. He told a news conference...
Iran's president urges US to demonstrate it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Tuesday that his country will never give up its right “to have peaceful nuclear energy” and urged the United States “to demonstrate in a verifiable fashion” that it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. ...
US issues more sanctions over Iran drone program after nation's president denies supplying Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on seven people and four companies in China, Russia and Turkey who officials allege are connected with the development of Iran's drone program. The U.S. accuses Iran of supplying Russia with drones used to bomb Ukrainian...
Americans released by Iran arrive home, tearfully embrace their loved ones and declare: 'Freedom!'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans detained for years in Iran arrived home Tuesday, tearfully hugged their loved ones and declared “Freedom!” after being let go as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets. ...
Five Americans detained in Iran walk free, released in deal for frozen Iranian assets
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Five Americans detained for years in Iran walked off a plane and into freedom Monday, most arm-in-arm, as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets owed by a third country, South Korea. ...
UNGA Briefing: Biden, Zelenskyy and what else is going on at the United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It's Day 1 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Monday at the U.N. and what to keep an eye on today, Tuesday. WHAT HAPPENED AT AND AROUND...
Iran's president denies sending drones and other weapons to Russia and decries US meddling
NEW YORK (AP) — Iran’s president on Monday denied his country had sent drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, even as the United States accuses Iran of not only providing the weapons but helping Russia build a plant to manufacture them. “We are against the war in...
