Iran media report 1 killed in unrest over food price hikes

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• breitbart.com9 hour(s) ago
• GOP Reps to Elon Musk: Stop Illegal Twitter ‘Support’ for Terror-Designated Iran Regime Accounts
• Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), along with other Republican lawmakers, called upon billionaire Elon Musk to restore Twitter as a platform that “protects and champions” free speech while upholding U.S. law that prohibits providing services and support to U.S.-designated officials and groups of Iran — the largest state sponsor of terrorism worldwide. In a letter penned to the likely soon-to-be owner of social media giant Twitter, Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York along with several other lawmakers called upon the Tesla CEO to uphold U.S. law by preventing certain Iranian...
• wtop.com10 hour(s) ago
• UN envoy: US sanctions on Iran worsen humanitarian situation
• TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Sweeping U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran have badly impacted the country’s economy and worsened the humanitarian situation in the Persian Gulf nation, a United Nations special envoy said Wednesday. According to Alena Douhan, the U.N. special rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures, the sanctions have affected Iran’s main export groups, banks and also several companies and nationals, including some pharmaceuticals and food production. This has led to inflation and growing poverty, and depleted state resources for dealing with the basic needs of people with low...
• CNN10 hour(s) ago
• Retailers call out Visa and Mastercard for fee hikes that could make inflation worse
• San Francisco (CNN Business)Consumers could soon see even higher prices at some stores, after credit card giants Visa and Mastercard raised their swipe fees -- generating an additional cost that some retailers could be forced to pass on to their customers.Last month, the two credit card companies raised some of their interchange rates, or fees that merchants pay with each credit or debit card transaction. These so-called swipe fees are then paid to the bank that issues the card but are largely invisible to the consumer. However, some retailers claim...
• the-sun.com12 hour(s) ago
• Millions of Verizon customers to be hit with fee hikes next month – are you affected?
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• mediaite.com13 hour(s) ago
• DHS Bracing for Violent Civil Unrest if Supreme Court Does Overturn Roe v. Wade, Per Report
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• wtop.com21 hour(s) ago
• Analysis: Condolence calls from elite show UAE rulers power
• DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Coming from around the globe, airplanes carrying world leaders have landed in the capital of the United Arab Emirates to offer condolences for the death of the country’s president — and acknowledge the influence of the man now fully in charge. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan rarely speaks publicly. The new president shies away from the United Nations’ annual summit in New York. And his thoughts on the world around him come filtered through a tight-knit coterie and leaders who interact with...
• breitbart.com1 day(s) ago
• Two Decades After Iraq War Began, China Colonizes Iraq’s Oilfields
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• wtop.com1 day(s) ago
• Canada prime minister critical of Iran in match Vancouver
• ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says next month’s soccer exhibition between his nation and Iran is ill-advised. Preparing for its first World Cup since 1986, Canada hosts Iran on June 5 at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. “This was a choice by Soccer Canada,” Trudeau said Tuesday. “I think it wasn’t a very good idea to invite the Iranian soccer team here to Canada. But that’s something that the organizers are going to have to explain.” Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot...
• wtop.com1 day(s) ago
• Iran inaugurates new drone production line in Tajikistan
• TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Tuesday it inaugurated a production line for manufacturing a new military drone in Tajikistan, a first for both nations. A report by the official IRNA news agency said the ceremony took place during a visit to the Central Asian nation by Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces. The move is seen as an effort by Iran to address the balance of power in the region: Afghanistan under its Sunni Muslim Taliban rulers poses a threat to its two neighbors,...
• mercurynews.com2 day(s) ago
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• dailymail.co.uk2 day(s) ago
• Iran is working on advanced uranium centrifuges - which could be used to make nukes - at new underground sites, Israel claims
• The nightmare scenario of an Iranian nuclear bomb is back on the horizon as the hard line Islamist theocracy works on advanced uranium centrifuges at a new underground site, Israel has warned. Benny Gantz, the Israeli defence minister, said that Iranian efforts to purify uranium at sites under construction near its Natanz nuclear plant exceeded UN figures from a March report. Iran is making an effort to complete the manufacturing and installation of 1,000 additional advanced IR6 centrifuges in its nuclear facilities, including new facilities being built at underground sites abutting Natanz, Gantz...
• wtop.com2 day(s) ago
• Iran state TV says 2 French nationals arrested over protests
• TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of two French citizens, saying they met with protesting teachers and took part in an anti-government rally. The report identified the two as Cecile Kohler, 37, and Chuck Paris, 69, and said they were not on a tourist visit to Iran. France had earlier identified the two as a teachers’ union official and her partner on vacation in Iran. The Intelligence Ministry in Tehran last week only said that it had detained two Europeans. The TV...
• wtop.com3 day(s) ago
• Iran academic arrested on security charges, foreign links
• TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Authorities in Iran have arrested a university professor on security charges and “suspicious foreign links,” Iranian media reported on Monday. The semiofficial Mehr news agency identified the professor as Saeed Madani, but did not provide details or say when and where he was taken into custody. The report said the academic had met with allegedly suspicious foreign citizens and carried messages from them to local activists in Iran. Madani, a sociology professor at Tehran’s government-run Allameh University, was also an activist, said Mehr. He was...
• New York Post3 day(s) ago
• Meghan King hikes naked in Joshua Tree: Yeah, I did that
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• wtop.com5 day(s) ago
• Portland unrest drives interest in 2 congressional primaries
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• CNN6 day(s) ago
• War-fueled food inflation will cause social unrest, UN official says
• New York (CNN Business)A perfect storm of war, extreme weather and Covid-19 will drive global food prices to levels that will cause social unrest in some parts of the world, according to David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme.If people cant feed their children and their families, then the politics unsettles, Beasley told CNN during a conference on Thursday. Hit by high prices and supply disruptions, Beasley said the UN has been forced to ration food supplies to millions of people around the world. Often, that means...
• wtop.com6 day(s) ago
• Iran arrests at least 22 protesting staple food price hikes
• TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities have arrested at least 22 demonstrators who had been protesting sudden price hikes of subsidized staple foods in two southern cities, state media reported early Friday. The arrests follow Iran’s announcement this week that the cost of cooking oil, chicken, eggs and milk would rise by as much as 300%, as food prices surge across the Middle East due to global supply chain snarls and Russia’s invasion of major food exporter Ukraine. The state-run IRNA news agency reported that 15 people were arrested overnight...
• wtop.com6 day(s) ago
• Senate confirms Powell for 2nd term as Fed fights inflation
• WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan backing to Powell’s high-stakes efforts to curb the highest inflation in four decades. The 80-19 vote reflected broad support in Congress for the Fed’s drive to combat surging prices through a series of sharp interest rate hikes that could extend well into next year. The Fed’s goal is to slow borrowing and spending enough to ease the inflation pressures. Since February, when his first term expired, Powell had been...