California-based singer Sassan Heydari-Yafteh, better known to fans as Sasy Mankan, has prompted threats and detentions by Iranian authorities who say his new music clip featuring a hard-core porn actress is obscene.
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A year into the coronavirus pandemic that is disproportionately ravaging African American lives both physically and economically, efforts are underway to target racism as a public health crisis that shortens lives and costs millions of dollars.
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A car bombing, a roadside blast and insurgent raids killed at least 22 people, including security forces and civilians, officials in Afghanistan said Saturday.
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The Philippines today became the first recipient of financing support under the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX) with approval of a $400 million loan that will help the country purchase safe and effective vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the COVID-19 vaccine Ad26.COV2.S, developed by Janssen(Johnson & Johnson), for emergency use in all countries and for COVAX roll-out.
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Child poverty is center stage in current policy debates, at last. Far too many American children grow up poor.
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American is closely monitoring the winter storm currently expected to bring heavy snow and strong winds through several Colorado cities.
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Despite rising COVID-19 cases, the administration of President Emmanuel Macron has not to date declared a new national lockdown, opting instead to tighten measures locally in hard-hit towns like Nice and Dunkirk, but Paris has been spared so far.
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A bill has been passed in Georgia calling for school curricula to include Bitcoin and blockchain studies for high school students.
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