Iran
As the United States finally puts a decade of war behind it, a group of senators, including 15 Democrats, is defying the White House and threatening to push the country into a fresh war with Iran.
At 1am on Sunday morning The Times of Israel reported that despite only following some 90 profiles, Mr Netanyahu now subscribed to the tweets of @PersianHotBook, which describes itself as “the first library of hot sex books [in the] Persian language”.
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May you be wise enough to count only the blessings you have been showered with, the friends you have made, and the joys you've received in the past year.
As a human rights lawyer who defended scores of women unjustly condemned to death in Iran, I am accustomed to hearing unpleasant news. However some stories still shake me. Ashraf Adelzadeh's ordeal is one of them.
Ghanaian economist George Ayittey attended the Oslo Freedom Forum in May. There, he sat down with me to talk about defeating dictators.