Chinese Riots Grows In An Angry Indonesia/ The regime in Iran suffered a major setback after former president and figurehead Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of a heart attack on Sunday. He was 82./ Former Iran's president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaks during Friday prayer ceremony in ...
Front pages of the Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, edition of Iranian newspapers, published with pictures of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Newspapers in Iran published front-page photographs of Rafsanjani, while state television aired ...
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died of a heart attack on Sunday in Tehran, was one of the political titans of post-revolutionary Iran and a friend to moderates who have now lost their chief supporter. Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's ...
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was taken to hospital on Sunday with a heart condition, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported. "Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was hospitalised about an hour ago ... in Tehran because of a heart condition," IRNA reported, without ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will be buried in the shrine of the ayatollah who led Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, the same man who once proclaimed "the revolution is alive as long as Rafsanjani is alive." The direction of that revolution and Iran's ...
Mr Rafsanjani was disqualified when he tried to run for president again in 2013 Iran's ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a dominant figure in the country's politics since the 1980s, has died at the age of 82, media say. Mr Rafsanjani had suffered a heart attack, the reports said. He ...
and powerful cleric who was widely considered a leading “moderate” in Iran’s polity, is a major blow to the reformists in the country. He had a complex and long tenure as a political leader, emerging as a revolutionary who participated in the overthrow of the Shah regime, heading Parliament in ...
In this Dec. 21, 2015 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to journalists as he registers his candidacy for the elections of the Experts Assembly, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)/ TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ...
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died in hospital on Sunday after suffering a heart attack, the ISNA and Fars news agencies reported. Rafsanjani, who was 82, was a pivotal figure in the foundation of the Islamic republic in 1979. He had been admitted to the Shohadaa Hospital in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats ...
The US has told Israel it must be fully "transparent" over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the ...
The average rate on a 30-year loan declined to 6.99% this week, according to Freddie Mac./ The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.99% from 7.03% a week prior, Rate drops, even marginal ones, are generally welcomed by homebuyers sensitive to rates, yet buying activity has stayed ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
Lamees Altalebi, Ahmed Nour, Abdirahim Saeed, Paul Cusiac/ More than a million Palestinians - almost half of the total population of Gaza - have been displaced from the south of the territory over the past month, sharply worsening the already dire humanitarian situation, according to the UN. The ...
West of Maryland, was arrested in the 7200 block of Fairchild Drive in Groveton. Police say he was served a warrant for violation of conditions of release and charged with resisting arrest./ The former point guard played for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in , Maryland before starring at St. ...