Populist former president’s falling-out with the Tehran regime allegedly drew him into a takeover plot US and Israel hoped to install Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader For all their outward differences, there always seemed to be things that linked Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Donald Trump. A visit to the then Iranian president’s rather humble Tehran neighbourhood nearly 20 years ago highlighted cost of living problems that prefigured those facing Trump now. Continue reading...
A California judge has given Kars4Kids 30 days to either take its ads off the air or update them to disclose its affiliations to a Jewish charity based in the Northeast.
PM’s former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, among aides who were briefed on investigation into journalists writing about Labour Together Keir Starmer’s most senior advisers were briefed about an “indefensible” investigation into journalists writing critical pieces about the Labour Together thinktank, according to a newly released document. Among the aides who received updates on the probe, commissioned by the thinktank’s director, Josh Simons, were Morgan McSweeney, the former chief of staff t
The 94-year-old former leader of Cuba faces several charges, including four counts of murder for an attack on a humanitarian group more than 30 years ago. (Image credit: Alexandre Meneghini)
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that former Cuban leader Raúl Castro has been indicted over a 1996 incident in which Cuban jets shot down two civilian planes, killing four Cuban Americans.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Births of the mammals extremely rare in captivity, say keepers, with ‘Womble’ only the second calf born at Chester Inside a heated incubator at Chester zoo, a wrinkled newborn aardvark nicknamed “Womble” spent its first weeks being bottle-fed milk through the night by keepers determined to keep the rare calf healthy. Named after the creatures in Elisabeth Beresford’s children’s books and the subsequent animated TV series, the nocturnal animal is only the second aardvark born at the zoo in its 94
NPR News · Oct 8
The bill is meant to encourage home construction, and would ban corporate investors from buying up more homes to rent out. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Case hailed as human rights victory as Tromsø court says Tommy Olsen’s actions are lawful and protected under international treaties The decision of a Norwegian appeals court to dismiss the extradition of an activist accused of facilitating the illegal entry of people into Greece has been hailed as a rare victory for human rights. In a judgment described as unprecedented by lawyers representing Tommy Olsen, the Norwegian founder of the NGO the Aegean Boat Report , the court unanimously rejected
