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2020-09-09 18:22
By Faranak Bakhtiari
World Suicide Prevention Day: bring focus on mental health amid COVID-19
TEHRAN – The global pandemic came with the economic downturn, the isolation due to months of social distancing, and the sheer stress of navigating through life while suffering a dangerous virus; all these make the most imperative time to focus on suicide prevention.
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2020-06-13 17:13
By Faranak Bakhtiari
From suicide to happiness: meet Iran’s mother of brides
TEHRAN – Sima Alipour, a 26-year-old girl, is called Iran’s mother of brides. A couple of years ago, she felt totally lost in the pitch blackness and decided to die, but a sparkle of hope enlightened her life so that she has helped so far hundreds of financially-struggling couples to start married life.
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2019-08-16 20:17
By M.A. Saki
Release of Grace 1 marks a suicide for Bolton
When Britain impounded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 on July 4, John Bolton, Donald Trump’s ultra-hawkish national security adviser, tweeted: “Excellent news”.
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2019-04-18 02:29
Road accidents, top cause of death among youth: official
TEHRAN- Road accidents is the leading cause of death in Iranian youth, accounting for 30% of deaths among them, said the head of community, family and schools health department in the Ministry of Health.
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2018-09-16 21:48
Austria: Six men, Iranian included, attempt suicide in face of deportation
TEHRAN - Six men who were scheduled to be deported from Austria were brought to local hospitals in critical condition late on Friday night after apparently setting fire to their cells in a Vienna detention center.
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2018-08-26 09:46
350 emergency social services center operating nationwide
TEHRAN – Some 350 centers providing emergency social services have been launched and developed across the country, which have reduced social harms to a great extent, Anoushirvan Mohseni-Bandpey, labor ministry’s caretaker has said.
