Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
ARTICLES BY: Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
Chinese Fret Over Elderly as WHO Warns of Holiday COVID Surge
People in China worried on Thursday about spreading COVID-19 to aged relatives as they planned returns to their home towns for holidays that the World Health Organization warns could...
Iran Sentences Former Deputy Minister With UK Nationality to Death for Spying
Iran has sentenced a former deputy defence minister who holds dual Iranian-British citizenship to death on charges of spying for Britain, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday. Britain described the death sentence on Alireza Akbari as politically motivated and called...
Iran Video Links Detained British-Iranian to Death of Nuclear Scientist
Iranian state media published a video on Thursday in which British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, sentenced to death for spying, said he played a role in the 2020 assassination of the...
Iran Executions Quash Protests, Push Dissent Underground
Iran's hanging of protesters -- and display of their lifeless bodies suspended from cranes -- seems to have instilled enough fear to keep people off...
US Flights Beginning to Resume After FAA System Outage
US flights were slowly beginning to resume departures after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that impacted thousands of flights. The FAA had earlier ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures after its...
Russia is Now Fighting NATO in Ukraine, Top Putin Ally Says
One of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies said on Tuesday that Moscow was now fighting the U.S.-led NATO military alliance in Ukraine and that the West was trying to wipe Russia from the political map...
Amid Ukraine War, Putin’s Top Brass Promise a Stronger Military
President Vladimir Putin's defence minister vowed on Tuesday to build a deeper arsenal of weapons, bolster aviation technology to better evade air defences and improve...
Iran Executions are ‘State Sanctioned Killing’: UN Rights Chief
The U.N. human rights chief said that the death penalty was being weaponised by Iran's government to strike fear into the population and stamp out...
Meta’s Oversight Board Tells Company To Allow ‘Death to Khamenei’ Posts
Meta's Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan "death to Khamenei" to criticize the Iranian...
Omicron COVID Booster Cuts Hospitalization in Over 65s, Israeli Study Finds
The Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccine booster developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE sharply reduced hospitalizations among older patients, Israeli researchers said on Monday, in some...
Bolsonaro Supporters Invade Brazil Presidential Palace, Congress, Supreme Court
Supporters of Brazil's far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court in Brasilia, in a grim echo...
Britain Says Iran’s Execution of Two Protesters is ‘Abhorrent’
British foreign minister James Cleverly on Saturday condemned Iran's execution of two protesters and urged it to "immediately end the violence against its own people". "The...
Zelensky: Ukraine Holding Two Towns, Russians in New Attacks
Ukrainian forces are repelling constant attacks on the town of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region and holding their positions in nearby Soledar in very...
Global Leaders Condemn Bolsonaro Supporters’ Assault on Brazil Government Buildings
Supporters of Brazil's former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country's Supreme Court, the Congress building and surrounded the presidential palace in Brasilia....
