Thailand has a plan for reopening that’s aimed at international visitors looking to stay a while. It’s not quite a work-from-elsewhere package, but the country is offering a special tourist visa that …
US carrier transits Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with Iran
The U.S. Navy says the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier has transited the Strait of Hormuz as tensions between the United States and Iran continue to simmer …
Trump administration set to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran
Former Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. will rejoin Iran nuclear deal if he is elected in November 2020; Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Fox News contributor Judith Miller reacts on ‘America’s …
Iran appears to be in grip of ‘third wave’ of coronavirus outbreak
New cases above 3,000 a day – as high as at any point since virus first hit country …
Turkey’s Halkbank urges US judge to dismiss Iran sanctions case
Halkbank on Friday urged a judge to dismiss a United States indictment accusing the state-owned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions, even as it seeks the judge’s recusal for …
Iran upholds sentence to amputate the fingers of 3 teens convicted of stealing
Iran has reportedly sentenced three teenagers to have their fingers amputated for stealing, a brutal punishment still on the books under the country’s Islamic penal code.
Women in Iran Chant ‘Navid Is a Hero’ at Gravesite of Executed Wrestler
There has been outrage at the death of Navid Afkari, 27, who took part in protests in 2018 and said he was tortured into confessing a murder.
Iran’s Ex-President Talks About Using Twitter, Is Reminded It Was Banned During His Tenure
The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been challenged in an interview about his time in power, which was marked by international criticism of his country’s human rights record and a …
Turkey fights, not fosters, ‘Islamist fundamentalism’
Turkey deployed combat troops in Syria to fight Daesh. Recent reports by the U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general stated our operations have impacted the group’s “ability to smuggle fighters, …
Fact-check: Black Lives Matter protesters did not deface Vietnam Memorial in Washington
A reverse image search shows that the image in the post is not the wall in Washington, but a Vietnam memorial in California that was defaced in 2016.