By Agence France-Presse Iranians at home and abroad marked the first anniversary Saturday of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with activists speaking of a renewed crackdown to prevent any resurgence of the protests which rocked the country last year. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died a few days after her arrest by […]
Karin Kneissl, a former Austrian foreign minister who gained fame in 2018 for her dance with Russian President Vladimir Putin at her wedding, has relocated to St Petersburg to lead a think tank. She moved to the city along with her two ponies, who were flown on a Russian military transport plane from Syria. According […]
By Agence France-Presse Mexico prepared Friday for a powerful Pacific hurricane that triggered a warning of “potentially catastrophic” flooding in a northwestern tourist region and the neighboring US state of California. Hurricane Hilary threatened to bring strong winds, flash floods and “life-threatening” surf and rip current conditions, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. “We’ve […]