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Who will be the next Bond?
There are few casting decisions as hotly anticipated as the question of who will be the next 007, with many expecting that a black Bond or even female Bond is on the cards. → Read More
Spotify launches site explaining how it pays artists
Spotify launched a new website Thursday addressing questions on how it pays out royalties, but failed to dampen mounting anger from musicians struggling to survive in the streaming era. → Read More
The Bleak Humor of Tehran’s One and Only Standup Comic
Tehran is still a long way from having an authentic comedy-club scene. → Read More
An Iranian Dissident’s Tale
Kian Tajbakhsh wanted to own his punishment—to see himself as part of a struggle, alongside millions of other Iranians, that may have been fruitless but had been worth fighting for. His interrogators had been coaching him for his appearance at the trial, but when he took the stand, Kian diverted from the script in a small but crucial way. He told the judge his real crime had not been treason,… → Read More
Iran postpones hunt for plane lost in mountain blizzard
The hunt for a plane that disappeared with 66 people onboard in Iran's Zagros mountains was stopped until morning as blizzard conditions made progress impossible for rescue teams, state television said Sunday. "With the wind intensifying, and with snow, rain and darkness, it is not possible → Read More
Huge pro-regime rallies in Iran as protests die down
The demonstrators waved Iranian flags and pictures of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as placards saying "Death to seditionists". There were few reports of anti-regime protests overnight after the political establishment closed ranks against the unrest since last week that has → Read More
Iran says attackers had been in Iraq, Syria for IS
Iran said Thursday that five of its nationals who killed 17 people in twin attacks in Tehran were Islamic State members who had been to the group's strongholds in Iraq and Syria. Wednesday's attacks on Tehran's parliament complex and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah → Read More
Iran's Khamenei blasts Saudi management of holy sites
With Iranians blocked from this month's hajj pilgrimage, their supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a furious rebuke Monday to rival Saudi Arabia, saying the Muslim world should challenge its management of Islam's holiest sites. "Saudi rulers... who have blocked the proud and faithful → Read More
French protesters clash with police over labour reforms
Demonstrators clashed with police in the streets of France on Thursday during fresh protests over labour reforms, just a day after beleaguered President Francois Hollande was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over constitutional changes. Riot police used tear gas against stone-throwing protesters in the western cities of Nantes and Rennes, while around 10 youths were arrested in Paris where… → Read More
France charges main suspect in foiled attack plot
France charged the main suspect in a foiled attack plot with membership of a terrorist organisation after police found an arsenal of weapons and explosives at his home. → Read More
Brussels attacks show Islamic State group able to dodge crackdown
The carnage unleashed in Brussels on Tuesday shows that the Islamic State group is still capable of staging mass-casualty attacks in Belgium and Europe despite an intensifying security crackdown, experts say. A senior French counter-terrorism official said the attacks were unlikely to be a direct response to the arrest in Brussels just four days ago of Salah Abdeslam, suspected of being the last… → Read More
Burnt shelters, desperate protests as 'Jungle' demolition resumes
The stench of burning plastic hung over the "Jungle" migrant camp on Wednesday as dozens of riot police moved in for a third day to demolish the shantytown in northern France. It was not clear how the fires started -- whether they were acts of protest by evicted migrants, burned down by police as some activists claimed, or simply accidents caused by flying sparks from other campfires spread by… → Read More
France razes migrant camp as Greece seeks EU aid
Demolition workers tore down more makeshift shelters in France's grim "Jungle" migrant camp Tuesday, as Greece pleaded for EU aid to help shelter thousands of refugees stuck in misery at its border. The EU lashed out at Macedonian police for tear-gassing desperate refugees who tried to force their way across the border with Greece on Monday, saying it was "not our idea of managing the crisis". → Read More
France's 'Jungle' migrants watch helplessly as bulldozers destroy their homes
Viciously cold wind and rain helped dampen resistance in the "Jungle" refugee camp in northern France on Tuesday, leaving migrants to watch helplessly as bulldozers continued the gradual destruction of their makeshift homes. Now all that work is being ripped apart, but few of the camp's residents are interested in the authorities' offer of proper accommodation elsewhere in France. → Read More
World powers agree 'cessation of hostilities' in Syria
World powers on Friday agreed an ambitious plan to cease hostilities in war-racked Syria within a week and dramatically ramp up humanitarian access at talks in Munich aimed at reviving the struggling peace process. The 17 countries agreed "to implement a nationwide cessation of hostilities to begin in a target of one week's time," said US Secretary of State John Kerry after extended talks… → Read More
Aleppo siege spells doom for West's goals in Syria: analysts
The siege of Aleppo has taken the West even further from achieving its key goals in Syria of stemming the refugee flow, removing the Assad regime and tackling the Islamic State group, experts say. As the joint forces of Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Syria encircle the divided northern Syrian city, the so-called "moderate" opposition faces a potentially devastating turning point in its five-year… → Read More
West vows to crush IS 'power centres' amid fresh hopes for Syria peace talks
Western leaders injected fresh urgency into the fight against the Islamic State group Wednesday, vowing to destroy its "power centres", while Russia announced crucial Syrian peace talks would begin within days. At the same time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Syria peace talks would start "in the next few days" after he met US Secretary of State John Kerry in Zurich. → Read More
Calais refugees take chance on 'pot-luck' smuggling service
Smuggling yourself from France to Britain can be hugely expensive for refugees, but there is a cheaper "pot-luck" option -- the only snag being you might end up in a French military base. Some who have used the 500-euro ($550) smuggling service at a motorway rest stop near the northern French port of Calais, have found themselves heading in completely the wrong direction, winding up in lorries… → Read More
Calais migrants in race to dodge bulldozers
In the freezing, mud-filled migrant camp known as "The Jungle", a dozen people are carrying a house down the street. The residents of the camp in the northern French port of Calais are in a desperate race to save their makeshift homes from the bulldozers. Rumours have spread that bulldozers → Read More
Marine Le Pen: fiery but pragmatic, and defiant in defeat
A fiery orator but also a pragmatist, Marine Le Pen has steered France's far-right National Front (FN) from pariah status into the mainstream. Despite her party's defeat in regional elections on Sunday, she sounded a typically defiant and vitriolic note, lashing out at the traditional parties for teaming up against her and vowing to press on. The first round of the regional elections had given… → Read More