Iran Set To Release Four Environmental Activists Jailed Since 2016
Iran has pardoned and is set to release four environmental activists who were jailed in 2016 on chargest of espionage they deny.
Iran has pardoned and is set to release four environmental activists who were jailed in 2016 on chargest of espionage they deny.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have reached several agreements as part of their continuous peace treaty negotiations, but they remain divided on two main issues, according to Armenia’s top diplomat.
An organization called the Group for Romania says the country has become "a colony" of "Judeo-Westerners" and called on China and Russia to save them. Some of the purported signatories insist they want no such thing.
A senior Iranian official said on April 7 that none of Israel's embassies were safe anymore, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported.
Four Iranian environmental activists, who have been detained since 2017, have been pardoned as part of a mass amnesty approved by Iran's leadership to commemorate the observance of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
Russia's government on April 7 declared flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, state media reported.
Tens of thousands joined an anti-government rally organized by Peter Magyar, a former insider of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party, in Budapest on April 6. The lawyer and businessman wants to run in European Parliament elections with a result that will be "the first nail in the coffin" of the Fidesz party's dominance in Hungary, he told the protesters. Magyar has been rallying criticism of the government since February, when a controversial pardon led to the resignations of President Katalin Novak and Magyar's ex-wife, Justice Minister Judit Varga.
Iran is facing what is being described as a suicide "crisis" among young doctors. Resident doctors say they are overworked, underpaid, and often humiliated by their seniors. By some estimates, one-third of younger doctors harbor suicidal thoughts. Meanwhile, thousands of doctors every year opt to leave Iran in search of better working conditions abroad.
The late Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny and his wife will receive the Freedom Prize of the Media from a leading German forum this year, with Yulia Navalnaya set to accept the award in person.
Turkey has cancelled visa-free travel for Tajik nationals, the office of the Turkish president said on April 6, without giving any reason behind the decision.