Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, pictured at her home in Tehran on September 18, 2013, after being freed following three years in prison (AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri)/ Tehran (AFP) - Award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh told AFP Sunday that she has been barred from practising for ...
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer says she has been banned from practicing her profession for three years. Nasrin Sotoudeh said October 19 that a Tehran court made the decision based on the demand of a court based at Evin Prison, where she was released last year after serving half of a ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency says a court has banned a prominent human rights lawyer from practicing her profession for three years. Nasrin Sotoudeh claims that her country’s Bar Association has been under pressure to cancel her license to practice law since she was ...
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 ...
It appears the shark liked neither its prey's texture nor taste. A team of scientists reported getting a surprise after they witnessed regurgitate a spikey land mammal from down under that resembles a hedgehog. In what may be a first-ever world-sighting, James Cook University (JC) announced ...
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good. An Associated Press analysis found their numbers ...