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Consumers faced with massive electricity bills while the rates for fuel have gone up by more than 150 percent.

Paris: Iran is ratcheting up a crackdown ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, arresting prominent personalities, campaigners and relatives of those killed by security forces in protests last year, activists say. The death in custody on September 16, 2022 of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who had been arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress rules for women, sparked months of protests that included calls for an end to Iran’s Islamic system.

Ramzi al-Ardah is shot after confrontations between security services and fighters in Tulkarem refugee camp.

Majority of the world's coups in Africa with at least 106 coups across Africa since 1950 and 108 unsuccessful attempts.

BEIRUT: Twenty-two people including three civilians have died in clashes in Kurdish-held northeastern Syria between US-backed fighters and members of an affiliated group whose leader was arrested, a war monitor said Tuesday. “Sixteen local fighters and three members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed” during the clashes in several villages in the east of Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, raising an earlier toll. Three civilians including two children have also been killed in the violence, it added.

The meeting prompted the Libyan foreign minister to flee to Turkey and led to street protests in Libya.

Spacecraft finds sulphur and other elements as it looks for signs of frozen water nearly a week after historic landing.