US quietly acknowledges Iran satellite successfully reached orbit as tensions remain high
The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iranโs paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehranโs ballistic missile program.
Critics reject changes to Roald Dahl books as censorship
Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahlโs classic childrenโs books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as โCharlie and the Chocolate Factoryโ and โMatildaโ to make them more acceptable to modern readers.
Iran deal tantalizingly close but US faces new hurdles
Last weekโs attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to murder former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
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Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020
They were among many religious leaders โ some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally โ who died in 2020. It occurred in April, during a period in which numerous Church of God in Christ bishops and pastors died of COVID-19. 2 leader, Bishop Amfilohije -- who also died after COVID-19 complications -- both downplayed the dangers of the pandemic and avoided wearing masks in public. Edward Kmiec, 84, who between 1992 and 2012 served as the Roman Catholic bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, and Buffalo, New York. John Yambasu, 63, a bishop of the United Methodist Church in Sierra Leone who died in a traffic accident in August.
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Iran doctor freed in swap for Navy veteran returns to Tehran
White, a Navy veteran who's been detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and is making his way home, with the first leg on a Swiss government aircraft. (U.S. State Department via AP)TEHRAN TEHRAN, IranAn Iranian doctor based in Florida returned to his homeland Monday after being part of a swap that saw a U.S. Navy veteran held by Iran return to America. He was also accused of structuring a series of bank deposits below $10,000 to evade reporting requirements under federal law. Iran allowed Michael White, of Imperial Beach, California, to leave the country Thursday. Earlier last week, an Iranian scientist named Sirous Asgari separately returned to Tehran after being acquitted in a federal trade secrets case and deported.