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Iranian Cleric Stabbed in Apparent Road Rage Incident in Qom

An Iranian cleric was stabbed Saturday during an apparent road rage incident in the city of Qom, state media said, days after the fatal shooting of a leading cleric. After crashing and injuring two pedestrians, the driver jumped out of his car and attacked “one of the victims who was…

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Review: All Creatures Great and Small in ‘Guardians 3’

When Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” in the first “Guardians of the Galaxy,” it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn’s space opera would ultimately lead to something as sincere, poignant and kinda cornball as…

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Steve Austin ‘Vulnerable’ in ‘Stone Cold Takes on America’

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin missed out on many seemingly mundane experiences during his legendary, bloodied, broken-bodied rise to becoming one of the most popular wrestlers of all time. But the Texas Rattlesnake is making up for lost time with his new adventure reality series, “Stone Cold Takes on America.” “It’s…

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Jack Nicholson Returns to Courtside for Lakers’ Playoff Game

Jack is back. Los Angeles Lakers superfan Jack Nicholson was watching at courtside for the first time in nearly two years Friday night when his team hosted the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series. The 86-year-old Nicholson hadn’t been in his usual seats in the Lakers’…

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Iran’s Raisi Slams US Presence in Middle East

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday slammed the United States' presence in the Middle East, as he hosted his counterpart from neighboring Iraq for wide-ranging talks. Decades-old arch enemies the United States and Iran have vied for influence in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein. Both helped…

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Nikki Haley, Others Struggle to Gain 2024 Ground on Trump

Nine months before the first 2024 US presidential primary, Donald Trump's onetime UN envoy Nikki Haley is barnstorming early-voting New Hampshire, one of several Republicans scrambling to dent the huge poll lead of the nomination front-runner. With Trump's legal setbacks mounting, Americans are bracing for a parade of contenders positioning…

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Medvedev, Sabalenka Win Opening Matches in Madrid

Second-seeded Daniil Medvedev advanced to the third round of the Madrid Open after beating qualifier Andrea Vavassori 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday in the Russian's first match of the tournament. In the women’s draw, second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka defeated No. 115 Camila Osorio 6-4, 7-5. The third-ranked Medvedev leads the men’s circuit…

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Thousands Endure Long Wait for Safety at Sudan-Ethiopia Border

An interminable row of minibuses lines the road that separates Sudan's southeastern city of Gedaref from the Ethiopian border, slowly bringing people fleeing Sudan's war closer to safety. There, families have been "sleeping on the ground out in the open", said Oktay Oglu, a Turkish engineer who worked at a…

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Sudan Fighting Enters Third Week as UN Says Country Collapsing

Warplanes on bombing raids drew heavy anti-aircraft fire over Khartoum on Saturday as fierce fighting between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered a third week, violating a renewed truce. More than 500 people have been killed since battles erupted on April 15 between the forces of army…

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Ukraine Told Poland, EU That Grain Import Restrictions Are ‘Unacceptable’

Ukraine had protested to key allies the European Union and Poland over restrictions on its grain supplies on Friday, before the European Commission announced later in the day that a deal had been reached in principle to resolve the matter. Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Saturday it had sent notes…

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Pérez Overtakes Leclerc to Win F1 Sprint in Azerbaijan

Sergio Pérez won the Formula One sprint race in Azerbaijan on Saturday to extend Red Bull's winning start to the season, as his teammate Max Verstappen settled for third in a damaged car behind Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. Leclerc started on pole — as he will for the main Azerbaijan Grand…

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Erdogan Unveils Türkiye’s First Astronaut on Election Trail

Türkiye’s first astronaut will travel to the International Space Station by the end of the year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday after an illness forced him to cancel several days of appearances. Air force pilot Alper Gezeravci, 43, was selected to be the first Turkish citizen in space. His…

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Jordan Drawn with US, Lebanon with France in Basketball World Cup

The United States will open Basketball World Cup play against New Zealand this summer, with Greece and Jordan also awaiting the Americans in the group stage. And the earliest the US can see France in an Olympic final rematch is the semifinals. FIBA held the World Cup draw in Manila…

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Saudi Ship Carries Out Largest Evacuation Since Sudan Fighting Broke Out

A Saudi-flagged ship arrived Saturday at the King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah, carrying the largest number of evacuees since evacuations from Sudan kicked off. The Saudi-flagged ship “Amana” carried 20 Saudi citizens, as well as 1,866 nationals of brotherly and friendly countries from different nationalities, including: Thailand, Australia, Rwanda,…

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Iran Hails Saudi Arabia's Role in Evacuating Iranians from Sudan

Iran on Saturday hailed Saudi Arabia’s role in evacuating 65 Iranian citizens from conflict-torn Sudan. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that since the onset of the unrest in Sudan, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has deported 65 Iranians stranded in Sudan, and “has taken the necessary arrangements to transfer…

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EU Calls Upon Iran to Refrain From Executing German-Iranian Citizen

The European Union said that it "strongly condemns" the death sentence imposed on jailed German-Iranian citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, the German news agency reported. Tehran's Supreme Court upheld Sharmahd's death sentence, first issued in February, on Wednesday.

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Egypt Promotes Sinai Security with Concert

Egyptian artist Mohamed Mounir organized a public concert called “One Nation” in the city of Arish on Friday evening, in a bid to promote stability and security in Egypt’s Sinai region. The concert was the first of its kind to be held in the city, which has been plagued by…

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Armenia and Azerbaijan to Hold Peace Settlement Talks in Washington on Sunday

Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a new round of talks in Washington on Sunday to try to normalize relations, the spokesperson of Armenia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Tensions have been rising again between the two countries over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, where Russian peacekeepers were deployed in 2020 to…

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Global Food Security Remains Under Threat, Despite Drop in Commodity Prices

Global commodity prices are expected to decline this year at the fastest clip since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, clouding the growth prospects of almost two-thirds of developing economies that depend on commodity exports, according to the World Bank's latest Commodity Markets Outlook report. However, according to the bank's…

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Houthi-Linked Financial Entities Trigger Cash Crisis

Mahmoud Naji, a Sanaa-based Yemeni citizen, was told by a currency exchange employee that he had to collect a financial transfer from his brother in Yemeni riyals due to a lack of foreign currency liquidity. He did not fully comprehend what had happened until he randomly checked four different stores.

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Advantage Tankers Accuse Iran of Seizing its Oil Tanker

The Iranian navy escorted Advantage Sweet to a port based on an "international dispute," announced Advantage Tankers. On Thursday, Iran's navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker heading to the US in the Gulf of Oman. Advantage Tankers, which owns Advantage Sweet, said the Iranian navy had transferred it to…

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Raisi to Begin Damascus Visit on Wednesday

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Damascus next week, a senior regional source close to the Syrian government told Reuters on Friday.

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Iran’s FM: Lebanese Presidential Elections Are an Internal Matter, We Support Consensus

From Beirut, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian declared on Friday an agreement to reopen the Iranian and Saudi embassies in Riyadh and Tehran in the coming days.

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Sudan: Hamedti Says Ready for Negotiations with Burhan if Fighting Stops

Leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Saturday that he is ready for negotiations with army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on condition that fighting stops between the rival sides. In remarks to BBC on Saturday, Dagalo, better known by his nickname…

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Pentagon Deploys Warplanes with ‘Bunker Busting’ Bombs to Deter Iran

The US military is for the first time putting 250-pound “bunker busting” bombs on attack aircraft recently sent to the Middle East in the latest move to deter Iran, US officials said. Wall Street Journal reported that the decision to put more powerful weapons on a squadron of A-10 Warthogs…

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