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2026-10-28 23:10
Spain high-speed train crash kills 68
A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 68 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century.
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2026-10-28 23:01
By staff writer
Israeli firm turned Starlink traffic into espionage tool across 105 countries
Netanyahu loses his majority, Eisenkot cannot win one, and the wars go on
TEHRAN — Recent disclosures from digital defense watchdogs have exposed an obscure Tel Aviv-registered advertising company, Discover-Tech, running aggressive online ad campaigns designed to geolocate and track users of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet network across more than 100 countries.
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2026-10-28 22:53
By Batool Subeiti
Each of the three options facing US in confrontation with Iran carries strategic losses
LONDON - America's available options in the West Asia region are constrained by substantial strategic costs, meaning that none appears to be free of losses. These options can be summarized in three main scenarios: maintaining a state of neither war nor peace, withdrawing without an agreement, or withdrawing under an agreement.
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2026-10-28 22:47
By Syeda Farheen Naqi Mossavi
Lula’s victory once again showed Latin America is not US backyard
TEHRAN — History has a peculiar way of embarrassing those who believe political opponents can simply be imprisoned, exiled or erased. Nelson Mandela walked out of prison after 27 years and became South Africa’s first Black president. Juan Perón returned to Argentina after nearly two decades in exile and reclaimed the presidency.
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2026-10-28 22:35
By staff writer
Knesset stalemate plunges Israel into political paralysis
Netanyahu loses his majority, Eisenkot cannot win one, and the wars go on
TEHRAN — Israel voted in record numbers on October 27 and produced a parliament nobody can run.
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2026-10-27 19:31
By staff writer
Israeli voters chose between ‘rabid yellow dogs and ravenous jackals’
TEHRAN — Israelis queued in numbers not seen in half a century on Tuesday, and Benjamin Netanyahu spent the afternoon begging his own voters to match them.
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2026-10-27 18:50
UN inquiry confirms Israel continued Gaza genocide, committed torture and rape in West Bank
TEHRAN — Israel has kept committing genocide in Gaza since the U.S.-backed “ceasefire” took hold last October, and across the occupied West Bank it has committed crimes against humanity that include extermination, torture, rape and the systematic persecution of Palestinians.
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2026-10-27 18:37
By Batool Subeiti
Israeli and US elections could hasten the end of Iran war
LONDON - Alongside military and economic calculations, the Knesset elections in Israel and midterm congressional elections in the U.S. are emerging as factors influencing the duration of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the terms under which it might end. These electoral considerations also shape the relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future and Donald Trump’s decisions.
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2026-10-27 18:28
By Ali Minabi
Brazil’s elections: How Lula preserved sovereignty
TEHRAN – The most insidious feature of domination is its insistence that people believe they are powerless and their future already written by others.
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2026-10-27 17:59
By Sahar Dadjoo
‘No Kings’ sees public mobilization as essential to defending US democracy, says American activist
Rebecca Winter discusses the role of mass protests, electoral participation and community organizing in challenging authoritarianism
TEHRAN- Rebecca Winter, executive director of Massachusetts 50501, is involved in organizing grassroots efforts to defend democracy and oppose authoritarianism in the United States. The movement, which emerged from a nationwide call for protests in February 2025, seeks to mobilize Americans through demonstrations, boycotts, voter participation and community action.
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2026-10-26 20:17
Who is the Hebrew-speaking ‘fox applying for the henhouse guard job?’
Lana Nusseibeh’s close alignment with Israel shadows her bid to lead the UN
TEHRAN — Having spent years whitewashing Abu Dhabi’s submission to Israeli interests, Lana Nusseibeh is now being promoted by her handlers to run the United Nations.
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2026-10-26 20:17
Trump vilifies Senate hopeful El-Sayed with Islamophobic rhetoric
Trump mocks Jews mulling to vote for El-Sayed
President Trump turned to Islamophobic stereotypes to motivate Michigan Republicans on Sunday, claiming at a rally that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee, if elected, would bring a wave of jihadists to the United States.
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2026-10-26 20:15
By staff writer
Lula defeats pro-Israel Bolsonaro, dealing Trump a major Latin American blow
TEHRAN — Brazilians re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday, October 25, giving the 80-year-old leftist a fourth term and the Trump administration its most consequential defeat in the Western Hemisphere. Lula took 51.8 percent to Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.2, a lead of more than 4 million votes, three weeks after trailing by 2.2 million. No one had ever won Brazil’s presidency after finishing second in the first round.
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2026-10-26 19:36
By Ali Minabi
The Yemen mandate that was never asked for
TEHRAN – Yemen’s “recognized” government has international backing but was not elected, has no money of its own, and no control over its own forces.
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2026-10-26 19:24
Sudanese recount horrors in el-Fasher at the hands of UAE-backed RSF
Three weeks ago, Hala, a Sudanese woman, left the refugee camp in Tawila and returned to the city of el-Fasher.
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2026-10-26 14:35
Lula wins presidential election in Brazil
Brazil's veteran left-wing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has been re-elected after a bitterly fought campaign, beating his right-wing rival Flávio Bolsonaro.
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2026-10-25 20:30
Saudi Arabia turns to US AI system as Yemeni pressure mounts
TEHRAN – Failing to protect itself and its proxies in southern Yemen, Saudi Arbia has turned to an American-AI generated system to unsuccessfully counter Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), also known as Ansarallah.
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2026-10-25 20:29
By staff writer
Israel seizes civilian houses in al-Khalil, establishes frontline military posts
TEHRAN — Israeli forces have sealed every major entry point into al-Khalil (Hebron), driving more than 2,200 Palestinians out of their homes and transforming entire residential quarters into military barracks.
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2026-10-25 20:29
By staff writer
France meets second weekend of mass protests with 70,000 police, arrests 1,314
TEHRAN — French police arrested 1,314 people and sealed off city centers on Saturday as hundreds of thousands marched for a second consecutive weekend. Rather than addressing the root causes of the nationwide unrest, the government focused entirely on silencing the demonstrators through state repression.
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2026-10-25 20:28
By Ali Minabi
Israeli elections: What can Palestinians expect?
TEHRAN — Israeli elections, scheduled for October 27, are about more than who becomes the next prime minister or whether Netanyahu stays in power.
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2026-10-25 20:04
Mass rally against Netanyahu government just ahead of elections
Three days before Israel’s first general election since the genocidal war on Gaza began, thousands of Israelis protested against the Netanyahu government late on Saturday in Tel Aviv demanding an independent inquiry into the security failures that led to the October 7, 2023 attacks.
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2026-10-24 20:48
By staff writer
Macklemore says ‘being human is not complicated’ as sold-out Gaza benefit tour opens
TEHRAN — American rapper Macklemore returned to the stage Thursday night at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre with an explicit message of solidarity for Palestine.
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2026-10-24 20:33
By staff writer
American are done paying for Trump’s family business
TEHRAN — Donald Trump won the White House promising to “Make America Great Again,” then promised Americans a short, cheap war on Iran. They got a closed Strait of Hormuz, Brent crude above $116 a barrel, and gasoline past $5 a gallon in several states. He and his family got a windfall.
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2026-10-24 20:29
By Ali Minabi
Operation al-Khalil exposes limits of Israeli aggression
TEHRAN – The resistance operation in al-Khalil (Hebron), which took place just days before the Israeli elections, was far more than an isolated security incident.
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2026-10-24 19:55
Hundreds of protests are held across France
Hundreds of protests were held in France Saturday as nationwide anger grows over the cost of living, with security forces massing to prevent a repeat of violence that marred demonstrations last week, AFP reported.
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2026-10-24 19:24
By staff writer
The limits of American power: Trump’s reckless gamble against Iran
TEHRAN - The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has exposed the limits of American military power and the dangers of an administration that appears to have mistaken technological superiority for the ability to dictate political outcomes, William H. McRaven, who served in the U.S. Navy, wrote in Foreign Affairs.
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2026-10-24 19:01
Israel brings talks with Lebanon to a standstill by refusing to withdraw from ‘pilot zones’
Talks between Lebanese and Israeli officials, hosted by the US in Tampa, Florida, this week, concluded without any breakthroughs, The New Arab reported on Thursday, citing its own sources.
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2026-10-23 22:41
By staff writer
Iranian Leader office hosts youth development program in New Delhi
TEHRAN — The Office of the Representative of Iran’s Leader of the Islamic Revolution in India convened university students, scholars, and professionals at the Iran Culture House in New Delhi for the inaugural Young Muslim 360° educational program on October 21.
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2026-10-23 22:38
Palestinian fighters kill 2 Israeli soldiers in fierce Al-Khalil confrontation
TEHRAN — Two Palestinian fighters from Al-Khalil (Hebron) held off Israeli troops for more than 20 minutes on Friday morning, killing two occupying soldiers before they were martyred at the Farsh al-Hawa checkpoint on the city’s northern edge.
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2026-10-23 22:37
By staff writer
Kushner’s hacked iPhone exposed billions in secret Saudi and Emirati money
TEHRAN — Dutch military hackers sat inside Jared Kushner’s iPhone in 2018 and watched him log in to a Dubai bank account that had taken in hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new book by journalist Matthew Cole.