Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei yesterday called to start uranium enrichment as of "today". A video on Khamenei's Arabic-language Twitter account saw him saying: "The day when oil runs out, nuclear energy that is produced more cleanly and at lower cost will become commonplace." "Enrichment cannot start at that time … We […]
Washington has wasted billions of dollars since 2008 on buildings and vehicles that were abandoned or destroyed in Afghanistan, a report by a US government watchdog revealed today. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported that about $2.4 billion in assets of the $7.8 billion "were unused or abandoned, had not been us […]
Morocco's Minister of State for Human Rights, Mustafa Ramid, has resigned from the government. The surprise move by the senior official in the Justice and Development Party came a few days after a prominent colleague, Abou Zayd Al-Mokri Al-Idrissi, resigned from the party because of the concessions made in relation to ending advocacy of the Arabic langu […]
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