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☆ Mozambique's Nyusi to blame over 'tuna bond' scandal, shipbuilder's owner says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 19, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi was ultimately responsible for the failure of the projects at the centre of the "tuna bond" scandal, the owner of Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder Privinvest told London's High Court on Wednesday. "When President Nyusi replaced former President Guebuza a power struggle ensued between them," Safa said. "President Nyusi made deliberate decisions to undermine the projects and as a result the republic failed to take the necessary steps to monetize the projects as intended." The trial began in earnest last week after a delay caused by Mozambique's 11th-hour settlement with Credit Suisse's new owner, UBS (UBSG.S).

Persons: Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, Eduardo Munoz, Filipe Nyusi, Privinvest, Iskandar Safa, Safa, videolink, Armando Guebuza's, Nyusi, Guebuza, Mozambique's, Sam Tobin, Rod Nickel Organizations: General Assembly, REUTERS, London's, Credit Suisse, party's, UBS, International Monetary Fund, Thomson Locations: Mozambique, New York City, U.S, Mozambican, Privinvest, Nyusi, Paris

☆ Talal Al Hindi, Hamas Field Commander, Is Killed in Airstrike in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Abu Bakr Bashir | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hamas-affiliated Safa News Agency said Talal Al Hindi, a field commander in al-Qassam brigades, was killed with his wife and members of his family in an Israeli air strike on their family house in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.

Persons: Talal Al Hindi Organizations: Safa News Agency Locations: Gaza

☆ Mozambique seeks $3 billion from Privinvest in 'tuna bonds' scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Traditional fishing boats sail as Mozambique's tuna fleet sits in dock beneath Maputo's skyline, in this picture taken August 15, 2015. REUTERS/Grant Lee Neuenburg/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Mozambique is seeking more than $3 billion in damages from Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder Privinvest over the decade-old "tuna bond" scandal, London's High Court heard on Tuesday. The case centres on deals struck by state-owned companies with Privinvest for loans and bonds from banks including Credit Suisse in 2013 and 2014 for fishing boats and maritime security. Mozambique alleged Privinvest paid bribes on an "industrial scale", involving the "grand corruption" of officials including Mozambique's former Finance Minister Manuel Chang, court filings showed. Chang was extradited to the U.S., where in July he pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering charges related to the tuna bonds scandal.

Persons: Grant Lee Neuenburg, Privinvest, Jonathan Adkin, Iskandar Safa, Safa, Manuel Chang, Chang, Adkin, Sam Tobin, Kirstin Ridley, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: REUTERS, Privinvest, UBS, Credit Suisse, International Monetary Fund, Thomson Locations: Maputo's, Mozambique, Safa, U.S, London's

☆ Mozambique can sue Privinvest in London 'tuna bond' case, UK court rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Mozambique is suing Privinvest, its owner Iskandar Safa, Credit Suisse and others over three loans raised in 2013 and 2014, ostensibly to develop its fishing industry. In the Supreme Court case, Privinvest argued the dispute must be heard in secret arbitration proceedings. But senior judges unanimously allowed the case to be heard in a lengthy public trial in the High Court, due to begin on Oct. 3. The judgment validates Mozambique's decision to bring proceedings in the High Court, said Mozambique's London law firm Peters & Peters. The High Court ruled this month that Nyusi has state immunity.

Persons: Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, Eduardo Munoz, Privinvest, Iskandar Safa, Peters, Peters & Peters, Safa, corruptly, Filipe Nyusi, Nyusi, Helen Taylor, Kirstin Ridley, Manuel Mucari, William James, Tomasz Janowski, Alexander Smith Organizations: General Assembly, REUTERS, Credit Suisse, Peters &, Privinvest, UBS, Mozambican, Corruption, Thomson Locations: Mozambique, New York City, U.S, Britain, Court, London, Lebanon, Abu Dhabi, United States, Mozambican, Maputo

CNN —Protests erupted throughout Iran on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old women who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly. Video obtained by CNN showed demonstrations throughout multiple cities in Iran, including capital city Tehran, Mashad, Ahvaz, Lahijan, Arak, and the Kurdish city of Senandaj. Many of the protesters chanted, “Women, Life, Freedom” – a popular rallying cry used after nationwide protests erupted following Amini’s death last year. Some protesters also chanted death slogans against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Mert Can Bukulmez/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty ImagesRallies commemorating Amini’s death were held in other cities around the world like Paris, Brussels and Berlin.

Persons: Mahsa Amini, Ali Khamenei, “, ”, Ellie Borhan, Allison Bailey, Amini’s, Amjad, Maziar Bahari, Amjad Amini, Bahari, IranWire, –, Safa Aeli, Amjad Amini’s, ” –, Amini, IRNA Organizations: CNN, Supreme, Authorities, Getty, Reuters, Helicopters, Human, Agency, Security, Social Locations: Iran, Tehran, Mashad, Ahvaz, Lahijan, Arak, Kurdish, Senandaj, Istanbul, Turkey, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, Saqqez, Kurdistan

CNN —Iranian authorities detained the father of Mahsa Amini on the one-year anniversary of her death Saturday, Iranian journalists and rights groups have said. Iranian journalist and founder of activist outlet “IranWire” Maziar Bahari told CNN that Amini’s father, Amjad, has been regularly summoned by security officers in the months following his daughter’s death. US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) in January placed the number at more than 500, including 70 children. Thousands more were arrested during the months of nationwide protest, the UN said in a report in June, citing research released last year by their Human Rights Committee. Iran executed seven protesters for their involvement in the unrest, according to the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Persons: Mahsa, Amini, Maziar Bahari, Amjad, ” Bahari, Amini’s, IranWire, Bahari, Safa, Hengaw Organizations: CNN, Helicopters, Human, News Agency, UN, Rights, Human Rights Committee, UN’s, Human Rights Locations: Iran, Iranian, Kurdish, Saqqez

☆ Mahsa Amini death anniversary sees heavy security in Iran
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022. Over 500 people including 71 minors were killed in the protests, hundreds injured and thousands arrested in unrest that was eventually crushed by security forces, rights groups said. In Amini’s birthplace in Iran's western province of Kurdistan, a rights activist said there was a "heavy presence of security forces". Social media postings said weekly protests were held in Zahedan on Friday with slogans including "Death or freedom". Authorities have accused the United States and Israel and their local agents of fomenting the unrest to destabilise Iran.

Persons: Mahsa, Hengaw, BIDEN, Joe Biden, Biden, Nasser Kanaani, Amini's, Safa Aeli, Saleh Nikbakht, Parisa Hafezi, Mark Heinrich, William Maclean Kevin Liffey, Alistair Bell Organizations: West Asia News Agency, REUTERS, Rights, Social, Reuters, Iran's Foreign Ministry, Amnesty International, Security, Thomson Locations: Tehran, Iran, WANA, Rights DUBAI, Mahsa, Iran's, Kurdistan, Norway, Saqez, Zahedan, United States, Israel, Britain, Dubai

☆ Mahsa Amini’s uncle arrested ahead of one-year anniversary of her death
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Teele Rebane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The uncle of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman whose death in the custody of Iran’s morality police sparked nation-wide protests last year, was arrested last week, according to a family member and a human rights group. Safa Aeli, a resident of the Kurdish city of Saqqez, was arrested on Tuesday at his home by 10 intelligence agents, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). A family member told CNN on condition of anonymity that Aeli has since been taken to Tehran, without providing further details out of concern for his safety. The reasons behind his arrest are unknown, but his detention comes just days before the one-year anniversary of Amini’s death. The protests dwindled, but the regime has ramped up its arrests of activists and their relatives ahead of the anniversary of Amini’s death September 16.

Persons: Mahsa Amini, Safa, Aeli, Amini, ” Organizations: CNN, Human, News Agency Locations: Kurdish, Saqqez, Tehran, Iran

☆ South Africa's Women's World Cup success highlights unequal pay issues
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Thando Hlophe | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

South Africa's women's team, known as "Banyana Banyana", reached the last 16 at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand earlier this month -- the first time either the men's or women's team had achieved the feat. In a 2022 investigation into the bonus structure for Banyana Banyana, South Africa's Commision for Gender Equity found that "players are not remunerated on the same scale (as) ... their male counterparts". For instance, South Africa's women's players received only a 55,000 rand ($2,885) bonus for reaching the final of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations, which they went on to win. "We're coming from very disadvantaged homes, we become breadwinners," Portia Modise, former Banyana Banyana captain, told Reuters after playing a friendly in the township of Soweto. That figure compared with $440 million for the men's tournament in Qatar.

Persons: Dhlamini, Carl Recine, SAFA, Portia Modise, Linda Zwane, Thando, Tannur Anders, Tim Cocks, Toby Davis Organizations: Soccer Football, FIFA, Sydney Football Stadium, REUTERS, Rights, Africa's, South African Football Association, Gender Equity, Africa, of Nations, Reuters, Thomson Locations: New Zealand, Netherlands, South Africa, Sydney, Australia, Rights JOHANNESBURG, Qatar, Soweto

☆ More Than 60 Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Accident Off Cape Verde
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Mike Ives | More About Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

More than 60 migrants are believed to have died after a boat carrying them from Senegal capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Verde, the authorities said this week. The boat capsized at some point after leaving Senegal on July 10, the Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday, citing the Senegalese Foreign Ministry. A Spanish fisherman found the boat floating about 150 miles north of Cape Verde’s Salt Island, the country’s national police said on Monday. The islands of Cape Verde lie several hundred miles west of Senegal. She said seven people had been confirmed dead and 56 others were still missing.

Persons: Safa Organizations: Reuters, Senegalese Foreign Ministry, United Locations: Senegal, Cape Verde, Spanish, Cape Verde’s Salt, United Nations

☆ Cape Verde: At least 60 migrants feared dead in boat disaster
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Zahid Mahmood | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least 60 migrants are presumed dead after a boat disaster off Cape Verde, West Africa, according to the International Organization on Migration (IOM). The Cape Verde archipelago consists of 10 islands and is located in the North Atlantic about 570 kilometers (about 350 miles) off the extreme western tip of Africa. It is unclear whether the migrants intended to reach Cape Verde as their final destination, or whether they were heading for the Canary Islands, another archipelago around 1,500 kilometers to the north. The Canary Islands are part of Spain, and in recent years have become an increasingly popular destination for migrants from West Africa trying to reach Europe. A total of 9,864 migrants have arrived by boat to the Canary Islands this year through August 15, a 4.7% decline compared with the same period last year, Spain’s interior ministry reported.

Persons: Safa Msehli, Fass Boye Organizations: CNN, International Organization, Migration, IOM Locations: Cape Verde , West Africa, Fass, Senegal, Verde, North, Africa, ”, Cape Verde, Canary, Spain, West Africa, Europe

☆ Migrant boat capsizes off Cape Verde, over 60 feared dead, Senegal ministry says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

DAKAR, Aug 16 (Reuters) - More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The boat left Senegal on July 10 with 101 passengers on board, and 38 people were rescued on Tuesday, Senegal's foreign ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday. The survivors were on the Cape Verde island of Sal, where Senegal is liaising with authorities for their repatriation, the ministry said. At least 15 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Senegal's capital Dakar in late July. Reporting by Ngouda Dione; Additional reporting and writing by Nellie Peyton; Editing by Bernadette BaumOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Safa, Ngouda Dione, Nellie Peyton, Bernadette Baum Organizations: International Organization for Migration, Thomson Locations: DAKAR, Cape Verde, Senegal, Sal, Guinea, Bissau, West Africa, Canary, Spain, Senegal's, Dakar

☆ South Africa's joy at Women's World Cup win brings hope of change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Nick Said | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa said on the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. South Africa's domestic women’s league is an amateur competition while its male equivalent is cash-rich with many players earning more than they would receive in several European nations. It has been a thorny issue for SAFA, who have battled to attract significant corporate sponsorship to take the women's league professional. "Professionalising the women’s league is in order. South Africa are up against Brazil plus joint bids from Mexico and the United States, and Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.

Persons: Kgatlana, Amanda Perobelli, Banyana, Cyril Ramaphosa, SAFA, Janine van Wyk, Tumi Dlamini, Nick Said, Clare Fallon Organizations: Soccer Football, FIFA, Wellington Regional, Italy, Sunday, South African Football Association, South, Wednesday’s, Thomson Locations: New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Wellington , New Zealand, Amanda Perobelli CAPE, Netherlands, France, South, Wellington, Sydney, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Belgium, Germany

☆ Banyana Banyana: How South Africa emerged from apartheid to shine on the world stage
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Alasdair Howorth | For Cnn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The team is now making its second appearance at the Women’s World Cup, but 30 years ago, the “Banyana Banyana” was playing its first ever match as a nation emerging from apartheid. Fans have got behind the women's team which has grown from strength to strength. Progress still neededIn 2018, with former captain Ellis now coaching, Banyana Banyana reached the final of WAFCON, only losing to serial winner Nigeria on penalties. That appearance in the final also qualified the team for its first ever World Cup appearance in 2019 in France. Banyana Banyana can now focus fully on the FIFA Women’s World Cup, knowing that their immediate concerns have been addressed.”South African players celebrate after taking the lead in their Women's World Cup Group G soccer match against Sweden, though the Banyana Bayana ultimately lost 2-1.

Persons: ”, –, “, Dara Carroll, Phill Magakoe, Fran Hilton, Smith, White, Alet Pretorius, Desiree Ellis –, Nelson Mandela, Terry Paine, Paine, Ellis, Desiree Ellis, Anesh Debiky, Ellis wasn’t, weren’t, Hilton, Carroll, we’ve, ” Carroll, Banyana Banyana, SAFPU, Culture Zizi, Bayana, Andrew Cornaga Organizations: CNN, South Africa women’s, soccer, Africa, of Nations, South Africa’s, CNN Sport, South, Getty, Springboks, Swaziland, South African Women Association, of African Football, CAF, FIFA, interprovincial, Soweto Ladies Football Club, Hilton, Southampton, Wits University, Sports , Arts, Culture, Sweden, Wellington Regional Locations: South Africa, Morocco, White, Swaziland, Johannesburg, AFP, “, South Africa’s, England, Cape Town, Nigeria, France, Botswana, SAFA, South, New Zealand, Sweden

☆ Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank clash -Palestinian officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian who was killed during clashes with the Israeli army in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 20,2023. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanRAMALLAH, West Bank, July 21 (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes with stone throwers in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian officials said. Israel's border police said that during the clash in the village of Umm Safa near the city of Ramallah, "masked suspects threw stones and rocks endangering the lives of troops." Protests are held Umm Safa every week against Israeli settlements, often escalating into clashes with Israeli forces. Violence in the West Bank, among territories where the Palestinians seek to establish a state, has worsened over the past 15 months with stepped up Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages.

Persons: Mohamad Torokman, Umm, Ali Sawafta, Nidal, Ari Rabinovitch, William Maclean Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Palestinian Health Ministry, Thomson Locations: Nablus, Mohamad Torokman RAMALLAH, West, Israel's, Umm Safa, Ramallah

☆ Israel files terrorism charges against two settlers in West Bank rampages
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The spree of vandalism and arson by hundreds of settlers in several villages and towns in the occupied West Bank last month followed the June 20 killing of four Israelis by Hamas gunmen. Their goal was "to arouse fear or shock in the community through a grave blow to the sacrosanct," it said. The charges - including disorderly conduct, insulting religion, aggravated arson and aggravated assault - normally carry maximum prison terms ranging between three and 20 years. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry described the settler rampages as "state-sponsored terrorism". Israel's hard-right government includes ministers who chafe at attributing the term terrorism to settlers.

Persons: Dan Williams, Nick Macfie, Conor Humphries Organizations: West Bank, Palestinian Foreign Ministry, Thomson Locations: Orif, Umm Safa

☆ Israel's Ben-Gvir rebukes police over 'collective punishment' of settlers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] A Palestinian covers his face during clashes with Israeli troops after Israeli settlers attack Umm Safa village near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanJERUSALEM, June 25 (Reuters) - Israel's far-right police minister rebuked the force on Sunday for what he called "collective punishment" of Jewish settlers, as cracks widened between the security services and the government over sectarian violence in the occupied West Bank. U.S.-brokered peace talks aimed at founding a Palestinian state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza collapsed in 2014. Ben-Gvir told the police chief that "he opposes any violation of the law" but cannot accept "collective punishment" of settlers, a statement from the minister's party said. Last week he issued a general censure of rioting in the West Bank.

Persons: Mohamad Torokman JERUSALEM, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Police spokespeople, Netanyahu, shied, Israel Katz, Dan Williams, Alexander Smith Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, National, Police, Reuters, Likud, Likud's Energy, Army Radio, Thomson Locations: Umm Safa, Ramallah, Palestinian, East Jerusalem, Gaza, Israel, Ateret

☆ Over 200 people evacuated from Sudan to Chad, UN agency says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

GENEVA, April 28 (Reuters) - Chad conducted its first evacuation flights from Sudan carrying more than 200 people, including dozens of children, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. The U.N. agency, which is assisting Chadian authorities with the arrivals, said in a statement that 226 people were on board two charter flights, including 39 children. IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli told Reuters that two more flights were arriving on Friday. She said the flights that landed in Chad on Thursday had students, elderly people, individuals with medical conditions and "extremely vulnerable families" on board. Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Gabrielle Tétrault-FarberOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Al-Jamil Al-Fadil, a resident of Tuti in Khartoum, told CNN that projectiles fell on the neighborhood. And in the Kafouri area north of Khartoum, warplanes overhead came under fire from anti-aircraft missiles, eyewitnesses told CNN journalists in Sudan. Food and water shortagesAndou Dieng, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said looting as well as fighting is continuing across the country despite attempted ceasefires. In the capital Khartoum, eyewitnesses and CNN journalists in the north of the city told CNN that RSF paramilitary soldiers are occupying at least one water station, causing shortages to vital water supplies. More than 2,700 people from around 76 countries have arrived in Saudi Arabia in recent days after being evacuated from Sudan, the Saudi ambassador to the UK told CNN on Thursday.

☆ Boat Sinks in Mediterranean, and at Least 55 People Drown
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Emma Bubola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

At least fifty-five people drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Libya, the United Nations migration agency said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of deadly accidents in just a few days involving migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. The rubber boat, carrying 60 people, left Tuesday morning from Garabouli, a small town a few dozen miles east of Tripoli, Libya’s capital, according to the agency, the International Organization for Migration. Only five survivors were brought to shore by the Libyan coast guard. “This is a very high number of lives,” said Safa Msehli, a spokeswoman for the organization. “That is a very, very dangerous thing.”Human rights organizations have for years protested the lack of preventive search and rescue patrols by countries around the Mediterranean.

☆ Sudan conflict: 'Am I going to get killed in front of my family?' Stories of terror on the risky escape route
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Sana Noor Haq Catherine Nicholls Celine Alkhaldi Magdy Samaan | Sana Noor Haq | Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Safa Babikir was sleeping in her aunt’s house in Khartoum when she was woken by gunfire. Then, she says, “the screams started.”Desperate to escape the fierce fighting in Sudan’s capital, Babikir soon made a decision to flee the country on a treacherous bus journey to neighboring Egypt. In Sudan, bus drivers are avoiding areas under RSF control, according to al-Idrisi, as they try to avoid skirmishes between the armed forces and the paramilitary group. “The darkest thought I had was, am I going to get killed in front of my family? “Ultimately they were able to escape Khartoum; which seems to be the ultimate mission for a lot of people,” Imad said.

☆ How small-town Maine embraced a family that fled the Taliban
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Elyse Lightman Samuels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +36 min

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Last November, at about midnight, Omid was lying in bed in his new home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine — exhausted, but unable to sleep. On this night, and on many nights during Omid's first few months in Maine, Nasir was soon at his door. Omid's family arrived in Maine just before Halloween in 2021 and recently celebrated one year in Maine. Catholic Charities, the local refugee-resettlement organization in Maine, was working with Omid's family to help them resettle. After Omid's family escaped Kabul, members of his extended family came by to collect some of their more precious items, and gave other things away.

☆ CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour declined to wear a head scarf in front of Iran's president, walking away from the interview amid ongoing hijab protests over the death of Mahsa Amini
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

CNN's Christiane Amanpour walked away from a long-anticipated interview with Iran's president. The anchor "politely declined" to wear a head scarf since the interview took place on US soil. Her decision follows a history of women journalists declining to wear the clothing for interviews. On Twitter, Amanpour said that Raisi was late to the interview in New York and received a last-minute request to wear a head scarf from one of the president's aides. Amanpour's case is not the first time a reporter declined to wear clothing that is compulsory for women in Iran.

☆ ANC: Anunț important privind procedura depunerii dosarelor de cetățenie română
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +4 min

Angajatul din cadrul BICCR-BT va prelua dosarele petenților programați exclusiv online iar petenții vor rămâne în sălile de așteptare până la terminarea verificării documentelor. Operațiunea de înregistrare a dosarelor în aplicația informatică/bază de date SAFA se va efectua de către angajatul ANC în biroul în care acesta își desfășoară activitatea. Instituțiile de presă care preiau articole sau imagini pentru emisiuni TV sau radio, vor cita sursa, iar edițiile tipărite vor indica sursa și autorul informației. Materialele de pe www.zdg.md sunt protejate de Legea 139 privind dreptul de autor și drepturile conexe, inclusiv de Codul Deontologic al Jurnalistului din Republica Moldova. Preluarea integrală a materialelor ZdG se poate realiza doar în condițiile unui acord prealabil cu redacția.

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