TEHRAN, September 17 - Echoing some of President Donald Trump's rhetoric, authorities in Egypt are taking aim at an alleged barrage of "fake news" they say is meant to sow division and undermine the rule of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
TEHRAN, June 13 - Close to one thousand protesters filled Milan's Piazza della Scala on Tuesday in protest against the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's decision to close Italian ports to migrant rescue ships.
TEHRAN, June 05 - China rebuked Taiwan's president on Tuesday for "irresponsible remarks" about the 1989 Tiananmen protests, saying Taiwan should stop harping on about the same old thing, after she called on the island's giant neighbor to embrace democracy.
TEHRAN, March 31 -RT programming was removed from its two broadcast frequencies in the DC area. The move proves that claims made by the US government that the channel’s registration as a foreign agent would not affect its work were false.
TEHRAN, January 5 - The Justice Department is revoking an Obama-era policy that discouraged US attorneys in states where marijuana had been legalized from bringing charges in marijuana-related crimes.
TEHRAN, December 1 - Egyptian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris condemned on Friday a crackdown on graft in Saudi Arabia, saying the purge had undermined the rule of law in the Kingdom and would deter investment.
TEHRAN, November 24 -Vietnam has prosecuted five former officials of the unlisted Dong A Bank for violating rules that “lead to serious consequences”, police said on Friday, part of a widening investigation involving the Ho Chi Minh City-based lender.
TEHRAN, November 7 - US President Donald Trump has voiced support for a sweeping crackdown by Saudi rulers on royals and businessmen as part of a purported anti-graft campaign, which is widely viewed as an attempt to strengthen Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s grip on power.
TEHRAN, November 6 - Saudi authorities detained the founder of one of the kingdom's biggest travel companies as part of an ongoing anti-corruption probe that is reportedly aimed at strengthening the crown prince’s grip on power.
TEHRAN, September 29 - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has denounced Myanmar for creating a humanitarian “nightmare” for the country's Rohingya Muslims, calling on the government of Aung San Suu Kyi to “halt” military operations and allow “unfettered access” for humanitarian aid in the Southeast Asian country’s conflict-wracked western region.
TEHRAN, September 17 - Over 370.000 Muslims from Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh so far as violent crackdown still continues against Muslims, despite extensive protests by Muslims and international condemnations.
TEHRAN, September 15 - Human Rights Watch has decried Saudi Arabia’s "coordinated crackdown on dissent" against a backdrop of arresting scores of opponents, including prominent clerics, in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, September 7 - Amnesty international has censured Bahrain for using “an array of repression tools,” including torture and sexual abuse, in its brutal crackdown on dissent, blaming the silence of the Western states, especially the US and the UK, for a sharp rise in Manama’s use of violence.
TEHRAN, August 18 - Saudi Arabia's razing of the Shia city of Awamiyah raised many questions marks, but one obvious answer should be sought in the kingdom's failures in Yemen as well as in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
TEHRAN, June 12, YJC - Police in Bangladesh have made 10 fresh arrests as a crackdown on members of an outlawed militant group widens across the country.
TEHRAN, April 3, YJC - Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah has granted the country’s military tribunals the right to try civilians, initiating yet another wave of crackdown against the opposition in the island country.