Tehran has stressed political continuity, even as analysts caution that a ‘harsh struggle’ is expected in the race to become Iran’s next president.
Israel, Hamas and the United States have blasted the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court after he applied for arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, defence minister as well as three Hamas leaders.
Two men were ‘looking for the moose when the cow moose attacked’, said a spokesman for Alaska’s Department of Public Safety. The second man was uninjured.
Delegation comprised Robert O’Brien, who was Trump’s national security adviser, and former US ambassadors to the UAE and Switzerland, said the source with direct knowledge of the matter.
‘This is a day of shame for the British state,’ Sunak told parliament. More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s after receiving contaminated blood.
Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s final witness, said he pocketed most of a sum of money which was meant for a tech company that did work for Trump’s firm.
General Charles Q Brown, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the US would be able to bring trainers back in ‘once the conflict is over’.
Hamdan Azhar said asset manager fired him after he objected to a colleague’s self-dealing, and was forced to shut down search engine that monitored client discussions on illegal investments, including in China.
The Dali had been grounded at the collapse site for weeks after it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s supporting columns on March 26, killing six construction workers.
Two High Court judges on Monday said Assange has grounds to challenge the UK government’s extradition order, The ruling sets the stage for an appeal process likely to further drag out a years-long legal saga.
Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that accompanied the deaths of other senior figures.
Iran’s president was declared dead on Monday after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain region.
Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday aged 63, was contender to succeed Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mohammad Mokhber is expected to serve as caretaker president for some 50 days before mandatory presidential elections in Iran.
Talks on a deal have been ongoing since 2022 but appear to have stalled amid a succession of UK prime ministers and the ruling Conservative Party’s electoral malaise.
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