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Iranpress: World Newspapers: Ukraine

World Newspapers: Ukraine's allies spar over a push to send F-16 Jets

Thursday, 18 May 2023 21:07

A fresh push by Britain and the Netherlands to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter planes has exposed the latest fault line among Western allies who have wrangled repeatedly over sending powerful weapons of war, once again pitting a reluctant United States against some of its closest European partners. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Erdogan’s grip on power loosens, but it holds

World Newspapers: Erdogan’s grip on power loosens, but it holds

Tuesday, 16 May 2023 21:11

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came out with a lead over his main challenger in Turkish elections, according to official results released on Monday. Though he fell just short of an outright majority, sending the nation to a runoff on May 28, there are strong signs pointing to yet another Erdogan victory in that vote. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: The struggle to save Abdul

World Newspapers: The struggle to save Abdul

Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:14

More people in the country’s biggest cities were becoming homeless, more were living outside instead of in shelters, and a record number of people, from Los Angeles to Denver to New York, were dying in premature and preventable ways on the street. The toll in San Diego County had increased from 64 homeless deaths in 2014 to nearly 600 investigated by the medical examiner’s office in the last year. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Guns and plots filled the chats of an airman

World Newspapers: Guns and plots filled the chats of an airman

Sunday, 07 May 2023 21:07

Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman implicated in a vast leak of classified documents, was fixated on weapons, mass shootings, shadowy conspiracy theories — and proving he was in the right, and in the know. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Subway killing in NY both stuns city and divides it

World Newspapers: Subway killing in NY both stuns city and divides it

Friday, 05 May 2023 21:17

Almost as soon as the video of one subway rider in New York, US, choking another to death began to ricochet across the internet, the killing came to signify more than the tragic death of one man. For many New Yorkers, the choking of the 30-year-old homeless man, Jordan Neely, was a heinous act of public violence to be swiftly prosecuted, and represented a failure by the city to care for people with serious mental illness. Many others who lamented the killing nonetheless saw it as a reaction to fears about public safety in New York and the subway system in particular. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Afghanistan once again a hotbed for terrorism plotters

World Newspapers: Afghanistan once again a hotbed for terrorism plotters

Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:22

Less than two years after President Biden withdrew US personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for ISIS as the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia, and conducts “aspirational plotting” against the United States, according to a classified Pentagon assessment that portrays the threat as a growing security concern. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Fox and Dominion abruptly settle for $787.5 M

World Newspapers: Fox and Dominion abruptly settle for $787.5 M

Wednesday, 19 April 2023 21:53

US news network Fox News abruptly agreed on Tuesday to pay $787.5 million to resolve a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems over the network’s promotion of misinformation about the 2020 election, averting a lengthy and embarrassing trial just as a packed courtroom was seated in anticipation of hearing opening statements. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Leaked intel altered little in strategies

World Newspapers: Leaked intel altered little in strategies

Sunday, 16 April 2023 21:17

In the leaked American intelligence documents, Ukraine’s predicament looks dire. Missiles for its Soviet-era air defenses are projected to run out by May. Its position in the key city of Bakhmut is “catastrophic.” Its military has taken losses of more than 120,000 dead and wounded — less than Russia’s estimated toll, but enormous for a country with less than onethird of Russia’s population. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Bitcoin devours energy, and others pay a price

World Newspapers: Bitcoin devours energy, and others pay a price

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 21:06

US Texas was gasping for electricity. Winter Storm Uri had knocked out power plants across the state, leaving tens of thousands of homes in icy darkness. By the end of Feb. 14, 2021, nearly 40 people had died, some from the freezing cold. Meanwhile, in the husk of a onetime aluminum smelting plant an hour outside of Austin, row upon row of computers were using enough electricity to power about 6,500 homes as they raced to earn Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Political world weighs fallout of Trump case

World Newspapers: Political world weighs fallout of Trump case

Thursday, 06 April 2023 21:08

In an ordinary presidential-primary season, the indictment of a front-runner over hush money paid to a porn star would, at the least, be an opening for rivals to attack. But a day after the arraignment of former President Donald J. Trump on 34 felony counts, one thing was clear: This will not be an ordinary political season. 214

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