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Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian defeated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s protege Saeed Jalili Friday to become Iran’s next president, winning the runoff election by 16.3 million votes to Jalili’s 13.5 million. Pezeshkian was the leading candidate in the first round of Iran’s sham election on June 28, but he did not clear the 50-percent threshold necessary to win outright. He…
China’s domestic security officials said they arrested a Chinese national for allegedly spying on behalf of the CIA, a move that comes a week after two U.S. Navy sailors were arrested for allegedly spying for China. In a statement, the Chinese Ministry of State Security identified the arrested individual as 52-year-old Zeng Moumou and said…
The German chancellor spoke after laying a white flower at a makeshift memorial in the western German city. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers on Monday as he visited the scene of the knife attack in Solingen. A suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused…
Average cost to arrest, detain and remove an unregistered immigrant is more than $17,000, DHS says. May 5 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced an incentive for undocumented immigrants to leave the country: a $1,000 stipend. DHS described it as a “historic opportunity for illegal aliens to receive both financial…
KINSHASA, Jan 13 (Reuters) – About 2,000 U.N. troops will leave restive eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of April in the first phase of the peacekeeping mission’s planned withdrawal from the country, the head of mission said on Saturday. The U.N. Security Council approved the end of the mission…
Broadcasters went off the air as opposition MPs barricaded themselves in public TV headquarters in an effort to stop the management changes. WARSAW — Poland’s new government moved Wednesday to seize control of the country’s publicly owned television, radio and news agency from the hands of loyalists to the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which…