Turmoil in Iran widens
TEHRAN (Tehranbureau.com), June 15 — Dusk on Monday witnessed the most shocking scenes so far from the aftermath to Iran’s disputed election. Events have have now escalated to a level of intensity unprecedented since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
Men 40% more likely to die from cancer than women
Men are almost 40 percent more likely than women to die from cancer, according to a new report published Monday.
Irans Tudeh Party assails millions of rigged ballots for Ahmadinejad
Millions of Iranians stood in long queues holding green flags as a sign of protest against the bankrupt despotic rule of the Spiritual Leader and his cronies. This has shaken the mendacious regime to such an extent that its leaders have ordered their repressive forces in the major cities to crush the will of the majority by organizing a quasi-military coup.
Repression mounts in Colombia
The militaristic Colombian government, servant of moneyed interests at home and abroad and tight with paramilitaries and narco-traffickers, is lashing out at shadows, represented as dangers to the state. President Alvaro Uribe is seeking a third presidential term unsanctioned by Colombia’s constitution.
The evidence that Shell tried to bury
The Morning Star (morningstaronline.co.uk) reveals the evidence that Shell tried to hide with last week's $15.5 million out-of-court settlement over its activities in Nigeria.
OPINION: Electoral coup d'etat in Iran
The people of Iran woke up Saturday morning to find not only that the election had been stolen from the popular opposition candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, but that any means of protesting against the electoral fraud and challenging the hardline right in Iran had been closed in what is being described in Tehran as a coup d'etat.
Call to end Zimbabwe international sanctions
Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has appealed for an end to sanctions and more international investment in South Africa. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Africa summit in Cape Town, Mr Mutambara said: 'Sanctions in this juncture in our history are meaningless. Help us help ourselves by removing all those sanctions so Zimbabwe can have a fresh start.'
Tehran protests as govt. declares Ahmadinejad the winner
Iran’s government this morning declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the definitive winner of yesterday’s hotly contested presidential election, sparking wide protests and charges the government had suppressed votes and manipulated the results.
Women's movement in Iran's presidential elections
The ancient country of Iran in the last two centuries has witnessed many internal and regional political crises. The major internal political events in the last 150 years, beginning with the attack by Tsarist Russia on Iran, the Tobacco movement, Constitutional Revolution, the movement for the nationalisation of oil, the 1979 Revolution and the 1997 reform movement. The political transformations in Iran have always been accompanied by popular uprisings and under the slogan of justice as the 'major' (maximum wish) demand.
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