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United States Senator Mark Kelly has sued the Department of Defense and its secretary, Pete Hegseth, over allegations they trampled his rights to free speech by embarking on a campaign of “punitive retribution”.The complaint was filed on Monday in the US district court in Washington, DC. It also names the Department of the Navy and its secretary, John Phelan, as defendants.- list of 3 itemsend of list“I filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of Defense because there are few things as important as standing up for the rights of the very Americans who fought to defend our freedoms,” Kelly, a…
NewsFeedNearly 15,000 nurses walked off their jobs at major New York City hospitals on Monday in one of the largest health care strikes in decades. They are demanding higher pay, safer staffing levels and better security measures at hospitals. Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited the nurses on a picket line.Published On 12 Jan 202612 Jan 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Share Source link
Protests in Iran over the country’s economic conditions, which broke out in late December 2025, have snowballed into a broader challenge to the clerical rulers who have governed Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Here is what we know about the protests in Iran so far.- list of 4 itemsend of listWhat are the protests in Iran about?Protests broke out over soaring prices in Iran on December 28, 2025 after the rial plunged to a record low against the United States dollar in late December.The protest started with shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar who shuttered their shops and began demonstrating. It…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has alleged that nationwide protests “turned violent and bloody to give an excuse” for United States President Donald Trump to intervene militarily in the country.Araghchi told foreign diplomats in Tehran on Monday that the violence spiked over the weekend, but the “situation is now under total control”.- list of 4 itemsend of listHe said Trump’s warning of military action against Tehran should protests turn bloody motivated “terrorists” to target protesters and security forces to invite foreign intervention. “We are ready for war but also for dialogue,” he added.Araghchi also said Iran has footage of weapons…
Denmark is ready to defend its values, Mette Frederiksen says, as Trump renews threats to seize the Danish territory.Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said her country faces a “decisive moment” over the future of Greenland after US President Donald Trump renewed his threats to seize the Arctic territory by force.Ahead of meetings in Washington, DC, from Monday, on the global scramble for key raw materials, Frederiksen said that “there is a conflict over Greenland”.- list of 4 itemsend of list“This is a decisive moment”, with stakes that go beyond the immediate issue of Greenland’s future, Frederiksen added in a debate with other Danish political…
The country has been rocked by two weeks of widespread protests since the currency collapsed.Widespread unrest, killings and arrests have taken place during protests in Iran sparked by a collapse in the local currency.The leadership says that it will listen to demonstrators, but that rioters face the death penalty.As the United States warns against a crackdown, how volatile is the situation?Presenter: James BaysGuests:Mehran Kamrava – Head of Iranian studies at the Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesRoxane Farmanfarmaian – Professor of modern Middle East politics at the University of CambridgeTrita Parsi – Executive vice president of the Quincy Institute…
President Masoud Pezeshkian strikes conciliatory tone in interview broadcast on state TV but accuses US and Israel of fuelling unrest that has killed dozens.President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged to overhaul Iran’s struggling economy, saying his government is “ready to listen to its people” after two weeks of increasingly violent nationwide demonstrations.Pezeshkian adopted a conciliatory approach during a televised interview on state television on Sunday, saying his embattled administration was determined to resolve the country’s economic problems while accusing the United States and Israel of fomenting deadly unrest.- list of 3 itemsend of listThe crisis erupted after the Iranian currency plummeted…
Seven others have been wounded in the latest attacks carried out in violation of the October ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas.Three Palestinians have been killed and seven wounded in Israeli attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip in the latest violation of a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, according to medical sources.Sources told Al Jazeera the areas Israeli raids targeted overnight into Sunday included Rafah and Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Zeitoun neighbourhood in the southeast of Gaza City and various other neighbourhoods across the besieged enclave.- list of 4 itemsend of listIn one attack, an…
These are the key developments from day 1,417 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Sunday, January 11:Fighting: Russian forces launched artillery and drone attacks on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday, killing a 68-year-old man, wounding three others and causing fires to break out in residential buildings, according to Ukraine’s emergency service. Russian shelling also killed another person in the Kramatorsk district of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the service said. Three other Ukrainians were killed, and nine more were wounded, in Russian attacks on the areas of Yarova, Kostyanynivka and Sloviansk in Donetsk, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.…
Saudi Arabia says it will soon host a dialogue between Yemen’s main players.For almost a decade, the Southern Transitional Council has been the main player in southern Yemen while the country reeled from division and civil strife.But in a matter of hours, the separatists lost control of all the territory they had previously held.- list of 3 itemsend of listThe developments followed a military intervention by Saudi Arabia to stop what it called a threat to its national security.Earlier this week, in a statement issued in Riyadh, the STC announced the movement’s dissolution.Saudi Arabia is now planning a conference of…
