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☆ Protests in Kenya Over Tax Bill: What to Know
  + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The sting of tear gas, the crack of live bullets and images of wounded people sprawled across the ground accompanied mass protests Tuesday in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, after Parliament passed a controversial bill raising taxes, despite criticism that it would intensify economic desperation. At least five people died from gunshot wounds, civic groups said, and crowds breached the Parliament amid plumes of smoke as days of protests against the tax bill ended with police and protesters clashing. Typically a regional bastion of economic security, Kenya has a population of over 54 million. Here is what we know about the contentious legislation that set off Tuesday’s clashes. What will the tax bill do?
Organizations: Kenyan Locations: Nairobi, Kenya
☆ Attacks in Russia’s Dagestan Region: What to Know
  + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Two bloody attacks in Dagestan, in southern Russia, on Sunday ignited fears of extremist violence on the home front, as the Kremlin pours resources and bodies into its sprawling war in Ukraine. Though little else is known about the attacks, they touched a nerve in a region long strained by separatist and ethnic tensions. Groups of gunmen launched seemingly coordinated attacks on synagogues and Orthodox churches in two cities — Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital, and Derbent — that are more than 70 miles apart. Though Russian officials called the violence acts of terrorism, they did not blame the attacks on any specific people or groups. No organization has claimed responsibility, and the motive remains unknown.
Locations: Dagestan, Russia, Ukraine, Makhachkala, Dagestan’s
☆ Iran’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know
  + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Eve Sampson | Alissa J. Rubin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran’s election for its next president will take place a year early, on June 28, after President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month. The vote will usher the Islamic republic into new leadership amid domestic discontent, voter apathy and regional turmoil. While the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has the final say on all state matters, the Iranian president sets domestic policy and has some influence over foreign policy.
Persons: Ebrahim Raisi, Ali Khamenei
☆ Putin’s Presidential Planes: What We Know
  + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Eve Sampson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When President Vladimir V. Putin travels abroad — as he did this week to North Korea and Vietnam to bolster alliances and nurture security ties amid Russia’s war in Ukraine — he typically flies in dated, Soviet-designed Ilyushin Il-96 series jets. With his latest trip coming shortly after aircraft crashes killed two other world leaders, President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran and Vice President Saulos Chilima of Malawi, a Kremlin spokesman felt it necessary recently to reassure the Russian public that Mr. Putin’s planes were “very reliable.”Though Russian airline carriers have abandoned Ilyushin models in favor of newer Western models — neither of the country’s two major airlines, Aeroflot and Rossiya, currently list any Ilyushin planes in their commercial passenger fleet — Mr. Putin seems steadfast in his commitment. Accompanied by fighter jets, Mr. Putin took an Il-96 on a whirlwind day trip in 2023 for talks with leaders in United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Earlier that same year, another plane in the government’s Il-96 fleet was tracked stopping at airports in Washington and New York to retrieve Russian diplomats who the Kremlin said had been ordered to leave the United States.
Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, —, Ebrahim Raisi, Saulos Chilima, Mr Organizations: Kremlin, Aeroflot, Rossiya, United Locations: North Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine —, Soviet, Iran, Malawi, Russian, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Washington and New York, United States
☆ Political bad blood between U.S. and Iran dominates run-up to World Cup showdown
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
The politics of anti-regime protests are dominating the run-up to a World Cup showdown between the U.S. and Iran, with coaches and players fielding politically charged questions before Tuesday’s match. I’m a soccer coach.” He also was asked for his thoughts about the U.S. military’s presence in the Persian Gulf. The protests at home have followed Iran’s soccer team throughout the World Cup, which began Nov. 20 in Qatar. At some of the games, Qatari police have confiscated T-shirts or signs supporting the protests in Iran. More recently, a prominent former soccer player in Iran, Voria Ghafouri, was arrested after he endorsed the protests, according to Iranian state-linked media.
☆ A match like no other. When the US played Iran at the 1998 World Cup
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Aimee Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +14 min
The US had qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France with ease. “Instantly, it was less about Germany, less about Yugoslavia, more about Iran,” Sampson told CNN Sport. “That was a bit of a distraction.”Over two decades later, the USMNT again faces Iran in the group stages of a World Cup. Gael Cornier/APThe USMNT had to face Germany, then the reigning European champion in its opening match, yet the Iran match, the second group game, was everyone else’s focus. “We had 150 armed police, which was unprecedented for a World Cup match.
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