Iran Indicts 11 Over Basij Agent’s Death, Basketball Team Skips Anthem

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran’s hardline judiciary has indicted 11 people over the killing of a Basij security force member during unrest, state media reported Saturday, as authorities sought... Read more »

Repeat COVID Infections Increase Risk of Health Problems, US Study Finds

VOA — PARIS — People who have had COVID-19 more than once are two or three times more likely to have a range of serious health problems than those who have only... Read more »

Iran Offers Nothing New in Latest Meeting, UN Nuclear Watchdog Says

VOA — SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said Iran did not offer anything new during a recent meeting in Vienna about its nuclear program... Read more »

Journalists Charged With Propaganda Over Iran Protest Coverage

VOA — Iran on Tuesday charged two female journalists with “propaganda against the state” over their coverage of mass protests. The judiciary announced that the journalists — Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi... Read more »

State TV Reports Iran Tested Satellite-Carrying Rocket

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards tested a new satellite-carrying rocket on Saturday, state media reported, a development likely to anger the United States. Washington fears the same... Read more »

US Security Officials Warn Lone Actors Likely the Biggest Election Threat

VOA — WASHINGTON — U.S. officials charged with helping to secure the upcoming midterm elections fear the most dangerous and most likely threats may be difficult or impossible to detect in advance,... Read more »

US Imposes Sanctions on Oil Smuggling Network Backing Iran’s Quds Force, Hezbollah

VOA — WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday issued sanctions against an international oil smuggling network it said supports Hezbollah and Iran’s Quds Force, targeting dozens of people, companies and tankers... Read more »

US Calls for Iran to be Removed from UN Women’s Rights Commission

VOA — UNITED NATIONS — The United States called Wednesday for Iran to be removed from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main intergovernmental body dedicated to gender... Read more »

US midterm elections: Why five states have slavery on the ballot in 2022

BBC — It's 157 years since the US constitution banned chattel slavery - in which one person is the legal property of another - but left in place an exemption for convicted... Read more »

Clashes Reported as Protesters Gather at Iranian Universities

VOA — Iranian students demonstrated at dozens of universities Sunday as protests sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody continued. There were some reports of clashes between demonstrators... Read more »