An Iranian Grammy Award winner said on Monday he was pardoned from a three-year sentence for a song that became an anthem to the 2022 protests that rocked the country following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Shervin Hajipour, who received the first-ever Grammy for best song for social change…
Namazi previously spoke with Amanpour by phone in March 2023 from inside Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, in what was an unprecedented…
Israel launched an intense barrage of airstrikes across swathes of Lebanon on Monday in what was the deadliest day…
Tokyo, Japan (AP) — Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern…
Michael Kovrig, one of two Canadian men detained in China for more than 1,000 days on alleged spying charges,…
Hurricane John struck Mexico’s southern coast on Monday night after rapidly strengthening into a major Category 3 storm, triggering…
Wole Soyinka became the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, and is now…
Israel’s military has raided and ordered the closure of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank,…
An Israeli airstrike reduces a nine-story apartment building in Beirut’s southern suburb to a large mound of rubble. A…