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Braving intimidation, hundreds of Iraqi women run for parliament
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A powerful mix of insecurity and traditional prejudice against more liberal female politicians put Awatef Rasheed off running for parliament when she returned to Iraq in 2014 after years abroad.
Iran president selects hardline cabinet to drive hard bargain with U.S.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran, emboldened by the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, is betting that its new hardline cabinet -- including Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani -- can force concessions in talks on Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Factbox - Profiles of first all-civilian space crew headed for orbit
(Reuters) - The quartet of private citizens who make up the Inspiration4 team, poised to make history aboard a SpaceX rocketship as the first all-civilian crew launched into orbit, may appear at first glance to be everyday people, but they are far from ordinary.
Indonesia terrorism risk ‘fairly low’ after Taliban victory: IPAC
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): A recent report by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) has found that the risk of terror attacks in Indonesia – and South-East Asia more broadly – after the recent Taliban victory in Afghanistan is “fairly low” but still cause for concern.
No one can hide from the climate crisis, not even billionaires
In a real apocalypse, no one is going to win, no matter how much money you have to throw around.
Drone attack hits near U.S. forces in Erbil, northern Iraq - officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A drone attack hit near U.S. forces stationed at Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq on Saturday, Iraqi Kurdish security officials said.
No Afghan refugee exodus yet but 'massive displacement' possible -U.N. refugee agency
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - The Taliban victory in Afghanistan has not led to a dramatic refugee exodus but the country urgently needs humanitarian aid to prevent economic collapse and major upheaval, the U.N. refugee agency chief said on Friday.
Iran's Guards target Kurdish rebels in Iraqi Kurdistan -report
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards on Thursday used artillery and drones to strike Kurdish militants based in neighbouring Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region, the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.
Paris attacks trial disrupted after main defendant defies judge
PARIS (Reuters) -The main suspect in the 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130 people in Paris disrupted the trial for a second consecutive day on Thursday to make political statements from the dock, prompting the judge to briefly suspend the hearing.
From election to Covid, 9/11 conspiracies cast a long shadow
Twenty years on, the scepticism and suspicion first revealed by 9/11 conspiracy theories has metastasized, spread by the Internet and nurtured by pundits and politicians like Donald Trump.
