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Source link Iran said its caseload of novel coronavirus infections passed the grim milestone of 150,000 on Sunday, as the country struggles to contain a recent upward trend. The government has largely lifted the restrictions it imposed in order to halt a Covid-19 outbreak that first emerged in mid-February. But the health ministry has warned of a potential virus resurgence with new cluster outbreaks in a number of provinces. Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 2,516 new cases were confirmed across the country in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 151,466. Infections have been on a rising trajectory in the Islamic republic since hitting a near two-month low on May 2. Yet according to President Hassan Rouhani, Iran was in “an acceptable situation” which is “not even fragile” anymore. Mr Rouhani said COVID-19’s reproduction number used to be more than two in Iran but that it was now “less than one”. Such a rate suggests a virus is petering out, according to scientists....

Source link Iran’s government has decided that the flight recorders from Ukrainian Boeing 737 should be sent not to Ukraine but to France. ISNA news agency reported that. “Iran will most likely send the black box from Ukrainian plane to France”, reads the message. The decision was made because of the delay of the response from the Ukrainian side. The analysis of black boxes of the Ukrainian aircraft that crashed in Iran in January was postponed in April due to the coronavirus pandemic. The government of Iran sent Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry a draft memorandum on mutual understanding, which foresees that Ukraine and families of the deceased refuse from the right to sue within this case. Related: Ukraine to appeal to ICJ if case on PS752 crash in Iran reaches deadlock Preiously, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Yevhen Yenin claimed that the state could turn to the UN International Court in the case of the crash of Ukraine’s Boeing 737 in Iran. Boeing 737 of Ukraine’s I...

Source link By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato New Zealand is often described as a great place to grow up. We must also ask ourselves whether it is a great place to grow old. The question becomes increasingly urgent as the impact of COVID-19 becomes clearer. While New Zealand has been one of a small number of countries to have seemingly controlled the spread of the virus, it has been older people who have borne the brunt of the disease. The elderly have not only died and become critically ill in greater numbers, as shown below, they have also suffered most under the stringent control measures adopted and from lapses in adequate health care. New Zealand’s COVID-19 cases by age group. NZ Ministry of Health There has been no shortage of debate about the impact of New Zealand’s strict lockdown on rights and liberties. But, given the burden of the disease has fallen mostly on older New Zealanders, their absence from that debate speaks volumes. The establishme...

Source link Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has chosen a team of negotiators to discuss matters with the US. It comes as tensions between the US and neighbouring Iran have reached boiling point in January. The website Asharq Al-Awsat first learned of the strategic talks between the US and Iraq from the anonymous source. They indicated that “talks will not be at the level of foreign ministers.” Negotiating teams have reportedly been divided into political, military and economic groups. These discussions were agreed in late 2019 by former Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s administration. READ MORE: Donald Trump wants to invite Vladimir Putin to next G7 meeting in explosive move Foreign policy for Iraq and the US depends on the latter’s relationship with Iran. The Wall Street Journal holds that the talks are an attempt to balance the two opposing powers and keep the country from becoming their battleground. According to the newspaper, “the US and Iran have q...

Source link By Gisela Kaplan, Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England Love, sex and mate choice are topics that never go out of fashion among humans or, surprisingly, among some Australian birds. For these species, choosing the right partner is a driver of evolution and affects the survival and success of a bird and its offspring. There is no better place than Australia to observe and study strategies for bird mate choice. Modern parrots and songbirds are Gondwanan creations – they first evolved in Australia and only much later populated the rest of the world. Here, we’ll examine the sophisticated way some native birds choose a good mate, and make the relationship last. Rainbow lorikeets form a lifetime bond. Bobbie Marchant Single mothers and seasonal flings For years, research has concentrated on studying birds in which sexual selection may be as simple as males courting females. Males might display extra bright feathers or patterns, perform a spec...

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Source link Published June 1. Updated June 1 at 4:23 am A flight staffer arranges candles at a memorial for the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash in the Iranian capital Tehran, at the Boryspil airport outside Kyiv on Jan. 8, 2020. Photo by Volodymyr Petrov Iran will “likely” send the black box from the Ukrainian airplane shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to France, Al-Arabiya reported, citing Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency. The plane, designated Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, was shot down by the IRGC on January 8. All 176 passengers on board were killed in the crash. source https://iranians.global/the-jerusalem-post-iran-likely-to-give-ukrainian-airplane-black-box-to-france-kyivpost/

Source link Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the Sultan Knish website} he House of Saud, the oldest enemies of an independent free Jewish state, have at least temporarily abandoned their project to destroy it by replacing it with the Islamic terrorist colony of ‘Palestine’. That’s more than you can say for liberal Jews. It’s a sad day when Wahhabi Islam shows more aptitude for setting aside its fanaticism and adapting to reality than the alphabet soup organization leaders and non-profit newspapers that have been running the liberal Jewish community into the ground for over a hundred years without ever learning a thing. This failed establishment is wringing its hands because Israeli law might be applied to parts of the West Bank filled with Jewish towns and villages that were liberated 53 years ago in the Six Day War. That means Israeli citizens living in cities like Ma’ale Adumim (pop. 38,193) would actually fully live under Israeli law, instead of a clumsy h...

Source link Iranian leaders accused the United States and President Donald Trump of “racism” Sunday after the death of George Floyd, using Twitter to criticize the U.S.– which comes as several GOP senators demand they be removed from the social media platform entirely. Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted out their support for #BlackLivesMatter and their opposition to racism in a series of tweets criticizing the United States. Both Iranian officials expressed their support for the protests demanding justice for Floyd, whose police-involved death led to one officer’s arrest on third-degree murder charges. “If you’re dark-skinned walking in the US, you can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes. #ICantBreathe #BlackLivesMatter ,” Iran’s Supreme Leader tweeted . “Racial discrimination is still a dilemma in a country that claims to support freedom and human rights #Black_Lives_Matter.” “If you have colored skin, a...

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Source link WASHINGTON – The arrival in Venezuela of five Iranian oil tankers is expected to ease the South American nation’s gasoline crisis, while challenging U.S. sanctions targeting both countries.     The Iranian fuel tankers began arriving in Venezuela last week under the protection of Venezuelan military forces, with the fifth cargo reportedly arriving on Sunday.   Venezuela’s oil sector has been acutely damaged by years of political and economic instability. Iran says the fuel shipment provided to Venezuela is about 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and petrochemical components.   U.S. sanctions imposed on Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA also have crippled Venezuela’s ability to import certain types of fuel from abroad, but the government of President Nicolas Maduro has turned to Iran for refining parts and fuel.   On Saturday, Venezuelan officials announced that the Iranian gasoline has arrived at hundreds of gas station across the coun...

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Source link CAIRO: Egyptian government officials are getting the public ready for life after lockdown and coexisting with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), after new regulations were announced to stop the further spread of the virus. One of the regulations is for people to wear face masks when they leave home. The decision particularly focuses on those who work in or visit markets, government buildings and banks. A fine of up to EGP4,000 ($254) could be levied if facemasks are not worn. The decision regarding the mandatory wearing of facemasks was enforced from May 30 for 15 days. Nader Saad, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said the government was working on the production of a low-cost cloth mask for EGP5, which unlike disposable masks, can be used for one month. “The facemask must be worn in all enclosed places, including government buildings, private companies, banks, universities, shops, shopping malls and markets, whether they are open or closed,” Saad said in an...

Source link A senior Iranian military official has hit out at the United States for discriminating against the people of colour as well as its police brutality. Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi touched upon US President Donald Trump’s racist behaviour as well as US police’s inhumane violence against its citizens and black people. “Unlike its false human rights slogans, the arrogant US government has revealed its ugly and inhumane face more than ever these days by confronting public protests, and has destabilized the pillars of its false democracy by resorting to the most violent methods,” said General Shekarchi, the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. “The arrogant US Establishment is witnessing widespread unrest and riots across the nation these days while White House officials are contributing to many problems in the region and across the globe by pursuing interventionist policies,” he added. The top general touched upon false news spread by some Weste...

Source link ISTANBUL Iran on Sunday confirmed 63 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 7,797. A further 2,516 people have tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 151,466, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said. Jahanpour said 112,988 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,543 patients remain in critical condition. Despite the rising number of cases, government employees went back to work, and mosques resumed daily prayers across the Middle Eastern country on Saturday. Shopping malls are now open beyond the 6 p.m. (13:30 GMT) closing time imposed as part of the virus restrictions. Iran started loosening the containment measures in April, and classified areas as white, orange and red, indicating low, medium and high risk for infections. Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadca...

Source link TEHRAN, May 31 (Xinhua) — Iran’s new Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf on Sunday ruled out the likelihood of talks with United States, saying the negotiations with Washinton is not for the interests of the country, state TV reported. The Iranian parliament considers the negotiations and compromise with the United States as “futile and harmful,” he said. He stressed the strategic policy of the Islamic republic is to expel the U.S. forces from the region. “The new parliament regards the fight against the world arrogance as an ideological cause and a strategic interest of Iran,” Qalibaf was also quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency. On Thursday, the new parliament meeting, dominated by the principlists, elected Qalibaf overwhelmingly as the new speaker. Enditem source https://iranians.global/irans-speaker-rules-out-talks-compromise-with-u-s-xinhua/

Source link “Failed to keep its promise of stopping wasting money on foreign adventurism & embattled in a COVID19 crisis of its own making, US regime now employs army, ‘vicious dogs & ominous weapons’ to intimidate protesters. Instead, US should listen to its people & change its bankrupt policies,” the ministry said in a tweet on Sunday. It came three days after disturbing footage surfaced online showing a police officer, Derek Chauvin, choking unarmed black man George Floyd to death in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after forcing him to the ground and pinning him down with his knee. The officer refused to relieve the pressure, although Floyd was being heard repeatedly pleading for his life and saying, “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s death, a poignant reminder of repeated unjustifiable killings of members of the African-American community by the US police, has been followed by protests across the country. source https://iranians.global/iran-urges-us-to-stop-intimidating-proteste...

Source link Tehran (AFP) – Iran said its caseload of novel coronavirus infections passed the grim milestone of 150,000 on Sunday, as the country struggles to contain a recent upward trend. The government has largely lifted the restrictions it imposed in order to halt a COVID-19 outbreak that first emerged in mid-February. But the health ministry has warned of a potential virus resurgence with new cluster outbreaks in a number of provinces. Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 2,516 new cases were confirmed across the country in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 151,466. Infections have been on a rising trajectory in the Islamic republic since hitting a near two-month low on May 2. Jahanpour said the virus had claimed another 63 lives over the same period, raising the overall toll to 7,797. So far the government has reimposed a lockdown only in Khuzestan province on Iran’s southwestern border with Iraq. It remains “red”, the highest level on Iran’s colour-coded risk ...

Source link Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s new parliament speaker said Sunday any negotiations with Washington would be “futile” as he denounced the death of a black American that has led to violent protests across the US. Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ air force, was elected speaker on Thursday of a chamber dominated by ultra-conservatives following February elections. The newly formed parliament “considers negotiations with and appeasement of America, as the axis of global arrogance, to be futile and harmful,” he said in his first major speech to the chamber. Ghalibaf also vowed revenge for the US drone attack in January that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Guards’ foreign operations arm. “Our strategy in confronting the terrorist America is to finish the revenge for martyr Soleimani’s blood,” he told lawmakers, pledging “the total expulsion of America’s terrorist army from the region”. Ghalibaf has also slammed the US over the deat...

Source link EL-ARISH, Egypt: The Egyptian military said it has killed at least 19 militants in raids and airstrikes against an Islamic insurgency in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, in clashes that also left at least five casualties among its troops. Col. Tamer el-Rifai said in his statement late Saturday that the raids and airstrikes took place last week in the towns of Bir Al-Abed, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid. He said forces dismantled at least five explosive devices and destroyed two four-wheel drive vehicles and a storehouse. The military statement did not specify the number of soldiers killed. Other officials however said two officers, including a colonel and a lieutenant, and three conscript soldiers were killed when an explosive device hit their vehicle Saturday while taking part in a campaign against the militants in central Sinai. The officials spoke in condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media. Other details about the incident could...

Source link TEHRAN – Daily electricity consumption in Iran reached 53,502 megawatts (53.5 gigawatts) on Saturday to register a new record high, IRNA reported, citing data released by Iran Grid Management Company (IGMC). As reported, the country’s electricity consumption stood at 42,185 MW on the same date last year, which means the consumption has increased by 11,317 MW. As the temperature continues to rise in different parts of the country, the electricity consumption is also following the same upward pattern toward an unprecedented summer peak. Earlier on Saturday, the spokesman for the electricity industry said the average temperature had risen which has led to an increase in the use of cooling devices and an upward trend in electricity consumption. Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi noted that the upward trend of the temperature is expected to continue into the current week, adding: “Each degree of increase in temperature will add about 1,350 MW to 1,500 MW to the country’s electricity ...

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Source link Regimes based in Turkey and Iran both sought to exploit and support violent protests in the US over the weekend for the killing of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis. Turkey is one of the world’s largest jailers of journalists and Iran’s government murdered 1,500 protesters last year, but leaders in both countries cynically sought to exploit recent protests in the US for their own ends. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted that “if you’re dark-skinned walking in the US, you can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes.”  Former Iranian president and Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that the killing of Floyd, the African-American man, was “deeply disturbing and upsetting” and that it was part of a plot by world powers and the “current world order.”  He even used the word “nigga” in his tweet, apparently trying to make his tweet seem relevant to Americans. It is not clear who writes the tweets for Ahmadinejad and Khamenei in English; som...

Source link A 14-year-old Iranian girl has reportedly been beheaded in her sleep by her father in a so-called honour killing after police took her back home when she ran away. The incident took place in Hovigh, in Talesh county, in northern Iran. According to local media, the young girl named as Romina Ashrafi had run away from home with a man, reported by Iranian outlets as being 35 years old, after her dad opposed them marrying. The girl was eventually found by police and was later returned home and placed under the care of her father. According to local media, she was handed over to her dad despite “repeated warnings” that to do so would put her in danger. Romina Ashrafi, 14, was reportedly beheaded in her sleep allegedly by her father in a so-called honour killing. Source: Australscope/Newsflash More The girl’s father allegedly killed her in her sleep by beheading her with a curved blade weapon. It was reported he then allegedly went to the police station with the m...