BBC — Pro-Palestine demonstrators at Columbia University have occupied an academic building as part of their protest over the war in Gaza. Read more »
BBC — An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says. It has... Read more »
VOA — AUBURN, WASH. — After a series of lower-paying jobs, Nicole Slemp finally landed one she loved. She was a secretary for Washington’s child services department, a job that came with... Read more »
VOA — Rapper Toomaj Salehi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, revealed recently that during last year’s legal proceedings in Iran, Salehi was acquitted of the initial charge of “corruption on earth” and should have... Read more »
VOA — Iran’s foreign minister said the crew members of a seized Portuguese-flagged ship linked to Israel have been granted consular access and are expected to be freed, Iranian media reported Saturday.... Read more »
VOA — The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned reports from Iran of increasingly strict enforcement of the state’s strict mandatory hijab laws for women... Read more »
VOA — Two days after Toomaj Salehi, a dissident rapper in Iran, was sentenced to death, reactions at home and abroad continue to pour in. In the latest wave of criticism, a... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian drones, including their use by Russia in the war in Ukraine, as Washington seeks to ratchet... Read more »
VOA — An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, local media... Read more »
VOA — COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri... Read more »