The Supreme Court of Iran has approved the death sentence on an Iranian researcher over spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Tehran Times reported on Monday. Ahmad Reza Jalali, the convict, had admitted that he had eight meetings with Mossad’s agents and that he had received money in return, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi was quoted […]
Thousands of people took to the streets across Peru to protest against the pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori, which exempts him from completing a 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations. In Lima, some 6,000 people demonstrated peacefully on Monday. It ended with at least one arrest and the police dispersed the demonstration […]
Canada has announced its decision to expel the Venezuelan embassy’s charge d’affaires in retaliation after the government in Caracas declared a Canadian diplomat persona non grata. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the measure on Monday in a statement that also said the Venezuelan ambassador, whom Caracas withdrew from the country in protest against […]
Emergency services have confirmed 41 people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a local train collided with the buffers at the station of Alcala de Henares, to the east of Madrid on Friday afternoon. The causes of the accident, which happened at around 4.00 p.m., are as yet unknown, but the train driver […]
Two Palestinians were killed on Friday in clashes with the Israeli army in Gaza amid another round of protests against US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Zakaria al-Kafarneh, 24, and Mohammed Nabil Muhaisen, 29, were fatally shot and more than 70 other people wounded as protesters tried to […]
Washington, Dec 22 (IASN) US President Donald Trump singled out $4.6 billion in missile defence funding on Friday, as part of a short-term spending bill that he signed to keep the government open until next month. The continuing resolution (CR) keeps the federal government open until January 19, 2018, which includes funding for missile defence […]
A British Princess has apologised for wearing a brooch that has been called “racist” by some people on the social media, the media reported on Saturday. Princess Michael of Kent, who married Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin, attended a Christmas banquet at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday wearing the blackamoor brooch, reports the BBC. Blackamoor figures […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a former US marine who was planning to attack a tourist pier in San Francisco on Christmas Day in the name of the Islamic State (IS). Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, became a suspect of US authorities in September because of his postings on social medial in support […]
Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company Fujitsu and Microsoft on Saturday announced to build new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions that will transform the ways people work. Based on the Microsoft 365 integrated cloud service, the new solutions will be powered by Fujitsu’s AI technology, Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai, and Microsoft AI platform services […]
The wildfire, which has razed 273,400 acres in southern California so far, has become the largest wildfire in the state since records began. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said that the Thomas fire, which began on December 4, had surpassed the fire Cedar, which had burned 273,246 acres in San Diego county […]