Month: January 2020

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials raised the death toll from a mosque bombing in the country’s southwest to 15 people on Saturday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. The powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province, during the evening prayers on Friday. It…

Iran summoned the UK envoy on Sunday to complain about his attendance at an “illegal” rally in Tehran to commemorate those killed in a Ukrainian airliner mistakingly downed by the country’s military forces, Iranian Foreign Ministry’s website reported. “Today, Rob Macaire was summoned because of his unconventional behaviour of attending an illegal rally on Saturday,” the report…

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, piling pressure on the leadership after the military admitted it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner at a time when Tehran had feared U.S. air strikes. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right…

Tehran (AFP) – The aerospace commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday accepted full responsibility for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet. In remarks aired on state television, Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh said the missile operator who fired on the plane did so independently because of communications “jamming”. It came as Iran acknowledged…

Samedi, Jodie Foster et son épouse Alexandra Hedison ont fait leur apparition au gala du musée Hammer de Los Angeles. Le couple, plus uni que jamais devant l’assemblée et surtout très assorti, abordait un style chic et sobre pour l’occasion. Les deux femmes se montrent rarement en public. Samedi, un couple célèbre n’a pas manqué…

Britain’s ambassador to Tehran has been summoned to explain his “illegal and inappropriate presence” at an anti-government protest, the Iranian foreign ministry has said. Rob Macaire has been called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following his arrest on Saturday during anti-government protests over the downing of a Ukrainian airliner by Iranian forces. The ambassador…

President Trump took to Twitter late Saturday to offer a message of solidarity with Iranian anti-government protesters—and he did it in Farsi. Usually known for his erratic capitalization and spelling mistakes on Twitter, the president made waves with the tweet, which was addressed to the “long-suffering people of Iran” and came after protests erupted in…

On Thursday, Alaska State Troopers rescued 30-year-old Tyson Steele in remote Alaska. He had survived below-freezing winter conditions for 23 days after his cabin burned down in Mid-December. A Facebook post of the video of the rescue said the troopers responded to a request for a “welfare check” on Steele after he had not been…

Pompeo disputes Iraqi prime minister, says US won’t negotiate troop withdrawal originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The U.S. will not negotiate a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq even after the country’s parliament voted to expel foreign forces, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday, even challenging an Iraqi readout of his call with the prime…

Reuters/Mohammed Al-Ramahi The United States government is flexing its muscles to Iraq over the country’s threats to oust some 5,300 US troops from the country.  The US State Department warned that if its troops are expelled, the US could cut off access to a key Iraqi bank account held at the Federal Reserve Bank of…