The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has made a religious ruling that prohibits “unnecessary travel” in the country in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19. Iran’s death toll from the outbreak is nearing 1,000. The fatwa urges citizens to respect the orders of the health authorities and to refrain from traveling across the country without a valid reason. The supreme leader has […]
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Representative of the people in Tehran at the Iranian Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Hashem Bathaei-Golpaygani, died of the coronavirus yesterday morning, local media reported. Seventy-eight-year-old Bathaei-Golpaygani was reported to have lost his life at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for the novel coronavirus. The Assembly of Experts is a body that supervises and appoints the Supreme Leader of Iran. Iran is […]
A prominent Iranian cleric has died from the coronavirus infection. Ayatollah Hashem Bathaie Golpayenagi, who represented Tehran at Iran’s Council of Experts, is the latest high-profile Iranian figure killed by the disease. Bathaie Golpayenagi was reported infected on Sunday, becoming the first member of the Council of Experts diagnosed with the virus. He died on Monday morning at the Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom province, where […]
With the hysteria over the coronavirus on the rise, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has urged his countrymen to keep calm, not to shun traditional medicine and care less about what is beyond one’s control – as we are all mortal. Kadyrov, long-time leader of the Russia’s Chechen Republic has offered his take on the boiling issue of today – the coronavirus pandemic – injecting some wisdom […]
MakerDAO’s emergency shutdown option – which was weighed by community members following the appearance of a $4 million debt bubble on the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform – will not pass at this time. If a shutdown was triggered by the Maker team, all dai stablecoins in circulation would convert to the underlying asset, ether (ETH). A flaw in Maker’s system for generating collateralized debt positions (CDPs) […]
Israeli authorities on Wednesday released a senior member of Hamas Mazen Jamal Al-Natsheh to his home in the occupied city of Hebron after he spent three months in administrative detention. Hamas’ Prisoners’ Information Office said in a statement that occupation forces arrested Al-Natsheh in December and transferred him to Ofer Prison. He has previously been detained and had been released four months earlier. The military court […]
A large drop in the price of ether (ETH) is testing the feasibility of Ethereum’s entire system of lending and borrowing. MakerDAO is the largest and most important application in Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Right now, it faces an emergency shutdown with $4 million of its dollar-pegged dai stablecoin not backed by an underlying crypto asset, according to a stakeholder call held Thursday. If a […]
Likud is reportedly pressuring Labor party leader Amir Peretz to reject attempts by Blue and White chair Benny Gantz to form a minority coalition government, as post-election wrangling continues. With a third election in a year resulting in another split Knesset that leaves neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor Gantz with a clear path to government, the former military chief is holding talks with opposition parties to see […]
Europe 05:24 GMT 10.03.2020(updated 05:25 GMT 10.03.2020) Get short URL Currently, tens of thousands of asylum-seekers are camping out on the Greece-Turkey border in search of ways to cross into Europe, reigniting fears of a new migrant crisis. Swedish Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson has been arrested and deported from Turkey for handing out immigration-related leaflets on the Turkish-Greek border. Åkesson’s leaflets informed migrants that Sweden […]
Democratic Party leader Nicola Zingarelli, one of the most powerful politicians in Italy, has tested positive for the coronavirus, Italian media reported on Saturday. Zingarelli Since the beginning of the outbreak, Italy has been the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe; on Friday, the total number of confirmed cases in the country climbed above 4,500, with 197 deaths confirmed. “I have coronavirus too,” Zingaretti said in […]
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Elena Giralt, the Electric Coin Company’s product marketing associate known for her research on cryptocurrency usage in Latin America, to talk about how digital assets can subvert power dynamics. According to the Brookings Institute, roughly 4.6 million Venezuelans have fled the country so far, which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called the largest exodus in the region’s recent history. Many […]
Turkish authorities have been positioning refugees and migrants on the European border in the last several weeks as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he’s ready to ‘open the gates’ amid the crisis unfolding in Idlib, Syria. We noted last week that upwards of 30,000 refugees stood ready near the Turkish border, ready to flood Europe. This prompted anti-immigration Swedish Democrats to travel to the Turkey-Europe border, […]
7 Mar, 2020 12:18 The leader of Italy’s co-ruling Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, has admitted he had been tested positive for coronavirus as Italy struggles to cope with the health care crisis sparked by the disease. Source
The British negotiators have returned home from Brussels after the first week of talks with the European Union over UK’s exit from the bloc. The two sides have still many disagreements to work out. Boom Bust is joined by Hilary Fordwich of the British-American Business Association to get a closer look. Fordwich reminds about concessions that have been made in 1973, when the UK was getting […]
An attack happened at a ceremony in the Afghan capital on Friday where a top Afghan political leader, Abdullah Abdullah, was present but he escaped unharmed, according to his spokesman. “The attack started with a boom, apparently a rocket landed in the area, Abdullah and some other politicians… escaped the attack unhurt,” the spokesman, Fraidoon Kwazoon, who was also present, told Reuters by telephone from Kabul. […]
“Don’t come to us. Sweden is full. We can’t give you more money or provide any housing. Sorry for this message. The people of Sweden, Sweden Democrats”, the flyers said. Amid the ongoing asylum chaos on the EU’s frontiers, the leader of national-conservative Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson has travelled all the way to the border between Greece and Turkey, where he handed out flyers to migrants […]
President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he spoke to a Taliban leader, stating, “we had a good conversation … We had, actually, a very good talk with the leader of the Taliban.” Trump also told reporters, “We’ve agreed there’s no violence. We don’t want violence. We’ll see what happens. They’re dealing with Afghanistan, but we’ll see what happens,” referring to his discussion with Taliban leader […]
Russia’s foreign minister discussed on Monday issues of mutual interest with Hamas political chief, Anadolu Agency reports. The meeting between Sergey Lavrov and Ismail Haniyeh, which was held in Moscow, deliberated on the situation in Gaza Strip and inter-Palestinian reconciliation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “Ways to restore Palestinian national unity on the political platform of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were discussed in detail,” said a statement posted on the […]
A member of an Iranian council that advises Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei today died after falling ill from the new coronavirus, state radio reported. The report said Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died aged 71. This is the third official to die of the virus in Iran. Hadi Khasrushahi, former Iranian ambassador to the Vatican and the head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Egypt, one […]
The leader of the Christian “doomsday cult” at the center of the outbreak in the South Korean city of Daegu is now facing a murder investigation as the country’s death toll from COVID-19 hits 21, the BBC reports. The push for the investigation comes as public fury toward the church has exploded thanks to its role in sparking the Daegu outbreak. City officials in Seoul have […]
Catalonia independence supporters flocked to the French town of Perpignan for a huge rally to listen to former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont speaking to them in person for the first time since his exile. The small southern French town of Perpignan is located in what Catalan independence supporters consider to be Northern Catalonia. With a population of 120,000, Perpignan suddenly witnessed just as many Catalonians flooding […]
Sheikh Abdul Saheb Sa’doun, chief of the Al-Hamaid tribe, and his wife were stabbed to death on Friday by unknown armed men in the Iraqi governorate of Dhi Qar, in the south of the country, Anadolu Agency reported. A police officer from Dhi Qar police told Anadolu Agency that unknown armed men broke into the house of Sa’doun and stabbed him and his wife to death. […]
HONG KONG—China’s President and Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has been eager to cast himself as the driving force behind the country’s efforts to contain the virus’ spread. And the World Health Organization has heaped praise on him. Yet it’s clear, as new epicenters have emerged in South Korea, Iran, Italy, and Japan, that China has failed to contain the disease that it was reluctant […]
Israel is reported to have assassinated a senior Hezbollah leader yesterday near the village of Hader, near Quneitra, in the Syrian Golan Heights. Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported that a “civilian” was killed in an Israeli drone strike on his car in Quneitra, southern Syria. However, opposition media reported that the target was Hezbollah leader, Emad Al-Tawil, the group’s foreign operations chief. Breaking News:At least […]