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Iranpress: World Newspapers: Biden to Oppose U.S. Steel’s Sale to Japanese Firm

World Newspapers: Biden to Oppose U.S. Steel’s Sale to Japanese Firm

Thursday, 05 September 2024 21:29

Biden is preparing to soon block an attempt by Japan’s Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel on national security grounds, according to three people familiar with the matter, likely sinking a merger that became entangled in election-year politics in the United States

Iranpress: World Newspapers: American Patients Held Against Will By Hospitals

World Newspapers: American Patients Held Against Will By Hospitals

Monday, 02 September 2024 21:28

Acadia Healthcare is one of America’s largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. Since the pandemic exacerbated a national mental health crisis, the company’s revenue has soared. Its stock price has more than doubled. But a New York Times investigation found that some of that success was built on a disturbing practice: Acadia has lured patients into its facilities and held them against their will, even when detaining them was not medically necessary. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Turn Up on Farms in U.S.

World Newspapers: Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Turn Up on Farms in U.S.

Sunday, 01 September 2024 21:16

For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the US federal government to spread municipal sewage on millions of acres of farmland as fertilizer. It was rich in nutrients, and it helped keep the sludge out of landfills. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Israel Escalates Raids On West Bank Targets As Third Front Grows

World Newspapers: Israel Escalates Raids On West Bank Targets As Third Front Grows

Thursday, 29 August 2024 20:38

Hundreds of Israeli troops backed by drones and armored vehicles carried out raids in the occupied West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Wednesday, a growing third front in conflicts that extend from the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip to southern Lebanon. 214

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Russian Air Raid Reminds Ukraine Of Enemy’s Might

World Newspapers: Russian Air Raid Reminds Ukraine Of Enemy’s Might

Tuesday, 27 August 2024 21:47

Moscow launched more than 200 missiles and drones across a wide swath of Ukraine on Monday, damaging energy facilities and sending residents of Kyiv into basements and subways to seek shelter. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the assault as “one of the largest strikes” of the 30-month war.

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Abortion Rights Face Stiffer Test on Ballot in Fall

World Newspapers: Abortion Rights Face Stiffer Test on Ballot in Fall

Sunday, 25 August 2024 21:29

Ballot measures on abortion rights have succeeded beyond what even their proponents imagined when the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. They have not only enshrined a constitutional right to abortion and restored access to the procedure in red and purple states. They have also converted what had been a voter mobilization advantage for Republicans into one for Democrats

Iranpress: World newspapers: Russia Inquiry By US Centers On Americans

World newspapers: Russia Inquiry By US Centers On Americans

Thursday, 22 August 2024 21:20

The Department of Justice has begun a broad criminal investigation into Americans who have worked with Russia’s state television networks, signaling an aggressive effort to combat the Kremlin’s influence operations leading up to the presidential election in November, according to American officials briefed on the inquiry.

Iranpress: World newspapers: Ukraine Sees An Incursion As Leverage

World newspapers: Ukraine Sees An Incursion As Leverage

Tuesday, 20 August 2024 21:46

In July, as he secretly readied an invasion of Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine sent a very different signal in public: He wanted talks to end the war. Speaking to the BBC, Zelensky said he had a plan to end the “hot stage” of the war this year. He dispatched his foreign minister on a surprise trip to China, a mission to improve Ukraine’s relationship with Russia’s most important partner

Iranpress: World newspapers: Ukraine’s Foray Likely to Stymie Russian Advance

World newspapers: Ukraine’s Foray Likely to Stymie Russian Advance

Friday, 16 August 2024 21:26

The Ukrainian strike, and its continued success, could ultimately have strategic significance, though U.S. officials caution that they will need to see how it plays out to draw firmer conclusions. The incursion, into the Kursk region of Russia, stands in stark contrast to Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive in southern Ukraine last summer.

Iranpress: World Newspapers: Toll in Europe From ’23 Heat: 47,000 Deaths

World Newspapers: Toll in Europe From ’23 Heat: 47,000 Deaths

Tuesday, 13 August 2024 20:35

More than 47,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes during 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, a new report in Nature Medicine has found. 214

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