Iranian security forces arrested three critics of the government, summoned another and confiscated their electronic devices, media reported on Monday. Iranian news outlets, including the private, pro-reform Shargh daily, said that security forces in separate operations raided the homes of journalist Parviz Sedaghat, 61, Mahsa Asadollahnejad, a sociologist, and Shirin Karimi, a translator. The Shargh...
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California Father Who Killed His 7-Month-Old Son Sentenced To More Than 30 Years In Prison
A Southern California father who pleaded guilty to killing his missing 7-month-old son was sentenced Monday to more than 30 years in prison. Jake Haro, 32, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty last month to the second-degree murder of his son, Emmanuel, the Riverside County District Attorney’s office said in a statement. A monthslong investigation has failed to locate...
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First Clinical Trial Of Pig Kidney Transplants Gets Underway
The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives. United Therapeutics, a producer of gene-edited pig kidneys, announced Monday that the study’s initial transplant was performed successfully at NYU Langone Health. It’s the latest step in the quest for animal-to-human transplants. A second U.S. company, eGenesis, is preparing...
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Powerful 6.3 Earthquake Hits Northern Afghanistan, Killing 20 And Damaging Historic Blue Mosque
A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, as well as damaging the historic Blue Mosque, officials said. The numbers of people killed or injured could rise, officials said. In the town of Khulm, near the epicenter, people dug through the rubble of...
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Israel Hands Over Bodies Of 45 Palestinians After Hamas Returns The Remains Of 3 Soldiers
Israel handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians on Monday, the Red Cross said, a day after militants returned the remains of three hostages. Israeli officials identified the three as soldiers who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza. The exchange marked another step forward for the tenuous, U.S.-brokered...
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Israel Rocked By Scandal As Top Military Lawyer Resigns, Goes Missing, Is Found And Thrown Into Jail
Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli army’s top lawyer. Now she is behind bars and at the center of a scandal rocking the country after a bizarre sequence of events that included her abrupt resignation, a brief disappearance and a frantic search that led authorities to find her on a Tel Aviv beach....
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Trump: There’s no religious genocide in Nigeria, says Governor Sule
Reacting to the recent post by US President Donald Trump on truth social, Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has said that there is no any religious genocide in Nigeria. Speaking as a guest on Arise TV on Monday as monitored in Lafia, Governor Sule said Trump must have been misinformed about the true situation...
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NATO Member Romania Signs Agreement With Germany’s Rheinmetall To Build A Gunpowder Plant
NATO member Romania signed an agreement Monday with German defense company Rheinmetall to build a gunpowder factory in central Romania, as Europe races to rearm itself in the face of an increasingly provocative Russia. After signing the deal, Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan hailed the joint venture between the Romanian state and Europe’s largest arms producer as...