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      A crowd moves towards Aichi cemetery in Saqqez, Mahsa Amini's home town, in Iran's western province of Kurdistan, last October. AFP
      Iran's Kurds fear crackdown ahead of Mahsa Amini anniversary

      Human rights group says situation in Kurdish areas resembles 'state of war' amid heavy security presence

      IranSeptember 13, 2023
      A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in front of the Iranian embassy in Brussels on September 23, 2022. AFP
      Mahsa Amini's father called for questioning days before anniversary

      Amjad Amini warned his son will be detained if family speaks out

      IranSeptember 12, 2023
      Women have been subjected to harsh punishments for refusing to wear the hijab in Iran. EPA
      Iran says actresses without hijab must return wages

      Women who do not cooperate will be forced to leave the industry, Guidance Ministry says

      IranSeptember 10, 2023
      Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Iran Abdullah Al Anazi arrived in Tehran hours after his Iranian counterpart Alireza Enayati landed in Riyadh, in a historic thawing of relations between the two countries. Photo: SPA
      Landmark day as Saudi Arabia's Iran ambassador assumes post

      Abdullah Al Anazi arrived in Tehran hours after his Iranian counterpart landed in Riyadh

      Saudi ArabiaSeptember 05, 2023
      A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Istanbul, Turkey. AFP
      Iran arrests Mahsa Amini's uncle as anniversary of her death nears

      Safa Aeli has been taken to an undisclosed location 11 days before the first anniversary of his niece's death

      IranSeptember 05, 2023
      The Mojhaye Khoroushan Water Park is on the outskirts of Mashhad city in north-eastern Iran. Photo: Foursquare
      Iranian water park closed after women allowed in without hijab

      Mojhaye Khoroushan park, one of the world's largest, accused of 'ignoring chastity rules'

      IranSeptember 04, 2023
      Iranians protest in Tehran against the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. AP
      Iran jails eight over officer's death during protests

      Defendants were convicted of aiding protesters found guilty of the killing last year

      MENAAugust 23, 2023
      Three boys after their rescue from a broken cable car in Battagram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. AP
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      Pakistani heroes praised for dramatic cable-car rescue

      Six children and two adults rescued after hours stranded hundreds of metres above a mountain valley

      AsiaAugust 23, 2023
      Israeli security troops at the scene of a shooting near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Reuters
      Benjamin Netanyahu blames Iran for attacks amid West Bank violence

      Israel has sent the largest number of troops to the occupied West Bank in 15 years after the killing of two Israeli settlers near Huwara

      MENAAugust 21, 2023
      Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his vote to elect a new president in his office in Tehran in 2009. AFP
      Iran says West using protesters to threaten elections

      Ismail Khatib referred to an 'enemy' with plans for the one-year anniversary of protests

      IranAugust 20, 2023
      Mehdi Etemad Saeed with his wife and child. Photo: Instagram
      Iran arrests girl, 3, in raid on actor's home

      Child held for hours by security forces and sat through mother's interrogation, reports said

      MENAAugust 17, 2023
      An Afghan woman leaves an underground school in Kabul. Millions of women had rights taken away when the Taliban returned to power two years ago. AP
      How one blind woman is bringing hope to Taliban-ruled Kabul

      Confined to her home, Malika speaks to other women on Zoom and urges them to help create a better future

      WorldAugust 17, 2023
      A dilapidated boat in a dried-up canal of Habbaniyah Lake in Iraq's Anbar province. AFP
      Entire Mena region to suffer 'extreme water stress' by 2050

      The Gulf tops the list of water-stressed regions, with Bahrain in first place

      MENAAugust 16, 2023
      A view of Mount Sinjar from the roof of a school in Kocho. Photo: Florian Neuhof
      Yazidi village devastated by ISIS massacre to be rebuilt

      Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani orders reconstruction of Nadia Murad's village of Kocho

      IraqAugust 15, 2023
      Siwon Ghim says time stops in her Seoul studio. Photo: Siwon Ghim
      South Korean artist bursts on to Abu Dhabi cultural map

      Siwon Ghim's exhibition marks her debut in the Gulf, and she's already painting a new future in the region

      Art & DesignAugust 13, 2023
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