Iranians queue to vote in an election seen as a verdict on the rule of President Hassan Rouhan (AFP Photo/Behrouz MEHRI)/ Tehran (AFP) - Polls opened in Iran on Friday with voters set to give their verdict on President Hassan Rouhani's policy of opening up to the world and efforts to rebuild the ...
ran’s President Hassan Rouhani is on course for a landslide victory as voters turned out in massive numbers to endorse his efforts to ease Iran’s diplomatic isolation. With more than half of votes counted, Mr Rouhani had won 14.6 million compared to 10.1 million for his opponent Ebrahim Raisi, ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said his re-election shows voters reject extremism and want more links with the outside world. After avoiding a run-off with a 57% ...
Women voters in the holy city of Qom south of Tehran on May 19, 2017 (AFP Photo/Ali SHAIGAN)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran's polls finally closed after Friday's election was extended to cope with the large numbers turning out to give their verdict on President Hassan Rouhani and his troubled efforts to ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has won a second term in office, state television says. Out of some 40 million votes cast, he received more than half of those counted, with some areas ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Millions of Iranians voted late into the night Friday to decide whether incumbent President Hassan Rouhani deserves another four years in office after securing a landmark nuclear deal, or if the sluggish economy demands a new hard-line leader who could return the country to a ...
Iranians went to the polls Friday in their first presidential election since the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement, with early signs suggesting enthusiastic support for incumbent President Long lines formed outside polling places in northern and western Tehran, middle-class districts that are ...
An Iranian man walks past a graffiti in downtown Tehran on Thursdayon the eve of the presidential elections./ Iranians head to the polls Friday for a vote that has become a referendum on President Hassan Rouhani's policy of opening up to the world and efforts to rebuild the stagnant economy. He ...
The MAKS 2021 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow/ KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have for the first time hit a latest-generation Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet at an air base inside Russia, Kyiv's GUR defence intelligence agency said on Sunday, showing satellite pictures which it said ...
run health ministry has so far named 86 people it says were killed as Israeli forces fought Hamas in and around the Nuseirat refugee camp/ Palestinians living in the densely populated area where Israeli hostages were being held by Hamas have described the terror of coming under intense ...
Reunions after four Israeli hostages freed in IDF raid/ Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas have been reunited with their families, after being rescued in a raid that Palestinian officials say killed dozens of people. Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were ...
The Amarillo City Council is considering a new ban on using local roads to seek an abortion, despite the procedure already being outlawed across Texas (Moisés ÁVILA)/ Abortion is illegal statewide in Texas, but residents in the city of Amarillo want to go a step further -- banning even the use ...
Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival during the 7 October attacks have been rescued from central Gaza. Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were freed during a "high-risk, complex mission" from two separate buildings in the ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Some California towns are experiencing fast moving supply and rising demand when it comes to the housing market, according to a popular real estate site. In fact, 19 Golden State towns made Realtor.com’s list for “hottest real estate markets” in 2024, including two areas ...
LACONIA — Laconia Motorcycle Week, now in its 101st year and expected to attract 300,000 visitors to the city and $100 million in business, isn’t the raucous rally of the 1960s and 1970s anymore, and that might be for the best. The movers and shakers who make Motorcycle Week happen gathered at ...
including children - from across the Gaza Strip have been forced to flee their homes as Israel's offensive continues/ The UN has added the Israeli military to a list of offenders failing to protect children last year, Israel's ambassador to the UN says. Gilad Erdan, who said he had been notified ...
The Houthis control Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and the country's north-west/ The UN has called for the immediate release of 11 of its personnel who have been detained by the Houthi movement in Yemen. The employees were taken in various parts of the conflict-torn country, in what appears to be a ...
Park managers at a popular New England beach are warning visitors of quicksand-like sinkholes after several people recently got their legs stuck. The warning is in effect at Maine’s Popham Beach State Park, not far from Brunswick, according to Sean Vaillancourt, who manages the beach for the ...