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Tehran, Dec 12 (EFE).- Iran on Monday executed a second person linked to the nationwide anti-government protests, despite international criticism following its first hanging last week. Majid Reza Rahnavard was publicly hanged in the holy city of Mashhad after he was sentenced to death for killing two members of the...
By Jesús Centeno Beijing, Dec 9 (EFE).- China began rolling back this week its strict «zero Covid» strategy in the face of unprecedented protests against the draconian policy. The turnaround is underpinned by a sudden change of course in state propaganda, which is now downplaying the risk of the virus....
Istanbul, Dec 9 (EFE).- The flags of Turkey and the European Union fly outside a new hospital that opened its doors this week in Kilis, near the Turkish border with Syria, which is the culmination of six years of work and billions of euros from EU funds. The hospital is...
New Delhi, Dec 8 (EFE).- Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP party closed the year with a resounding victory Thursday in regional elections in the prime minister’s native state of Gujarat in western India, a BJP stronghold for the past three decades. The BJP won or was leading in 156 seats...
Jarandilla de la Vera, Spain, Dec 8 (EFE).- Hundreds of bonfires and brooms burned through Wednesday night in the town of Jarandilla de la Vera in western Spain, in a centuries-old religious rite to honor the Virgin Mary’s Immaculate Conception. Thousands of people gathered for the “Escobazos” (Spanish for broom...
Moscow, Dec 8 (EFE).- The United States and Russia have exchanged imprisoned US basketball star Brittney Griner for Russian arms dealer Victor Bout, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. Griner was jailed in August on a nine year sentence for drug possession and smuggling after cannabis oil had been found...
Berlin, Dec 7 (EFE).- German police have arrested 25 alleged members of a far-right group suspected of planning an armed coup to overthrow the government, prosecutors said Wednesday. The suspects are members and supporters of a terror cell founded in November last year with the aim to overthrow “the existing...
By Jamie Leon Tehran, Dec 7 (EFE).- While Iranian demonstrators secured a partial victory when the morality police were disbanded, the mandatory hijab law remains in effect across the Islamic Republic. After almost three months of protests that have led to more than 400 deaths and thousands of arrests, the...
Barcelona, Spain, Dec 7 (EFE).- Nearly 30 migrants attempted to flee a plane at Barcelona’s El Prat airport on Wednesday after the aircraft made an emergency landing because a female passenger claimed she was going into labor. The Turkish airline Pegasus flight traveling from Casablanca in Morocco to Istanbul landed...
Dhaka, Dec 6 (EFE).- Over a dozen countries, including the United States and the European Union, on Tuesday reminded Bangladesh of the importance of fair and peaceful democratic processes, days ahead of a mass opposition rally in the capital city of Dhaka. Identifying themselves as «friends and partners of Bangladesh,»...
By Gonzalo Sánchez Rome (EFE).- The news that three prostitutes had been murdered last month in one of Rome’s more upmarket neighborhoods shocked the city. Two of the victims were Chinese, and no one seemed to know who they were. They were just two of the many women caught in...
Tehran, Dec 6 (EFE).- Iran has sentenced five more people to death for allegedly participating in the protests that have gripped the country for nearly three months, the country’s judiciary announced on Tuesday. The convicted protesters are accused of fatally stabbing a member of the Basij — volunteers in Iran’s...
