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...As factions prepare for the battle to succeed the ageing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime’s future is increasingly being shaped by its armed forces and hardliners....
...As Iran’s best-known moderate Hassan Rouhani was being blocked from the powerful body with responsibility to appoint the country’s supreme leader, his hardline successor as president, Ebrahim Raisi, was...
...The public vote on March 1 has added significance because Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the current supreme leader, is 84 years old....
...Shadow ministers publicly defended Ali, pointing out that he had apologised....
...Like Ali for Labour, his name will still appear on the ballot paper, but he told the BBC he would not be campaigning....
...A day after a senior Hamas leader was killed in a suspected Israeli drone strike in Beirut, the influential Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivered a highly anticipated televised address....
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed to respond, saying “Israel would regret its crimes”....
...Ali initially apologised, although according to subsequent online campaign material he was “sacked” by Labour for “speaking on Palestine”. Ali did not respond to a request for comment....
...factory floors across the nation, our autoworkers are making cars and trucks that give American drivers a choice — a way to get from point A to point B without having to fuel up at a gas station,” said Ali...
...Bookmaker William Hill has Labour at 4/11 to win the seat, which fell vacant after the death last month of Labour MP Tony Lloyd, with Galloway, who is standing for the Workers party, at 2-1....
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, on Wednesday called for a national rather than factional approach to elections....
...Miran Ali, a factory owner and vice-president of BGMEA, called the new minimum salary, which was unveiled following consultations with the industry and unions, “a realistic wage”....
...Ali’s office said he would attend to promote peace but “Guyana’s land boundary is not up for discussion”....
...Mohammed Hassan al-Suwaidi, the new investment minister, was also among those on tour, meeting with Egypt’s prime minister Mostafa Madbouly to discuss the UAE pumping more money into the north African country...
...(Patrick Temple-West and Aime Williams) Cleverly pitches UK’s ‘Bauhaus’ climate finance plan Although Sunak was not in New York this week, James Cleverly, the UK foreign secretary, was....
...said Hage Ali....
...The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ and distinguished fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics Lebanon, and perhaps much of the world, breathed a sigh of relief on Friday when Hassan...
...Williams dismissed the idea that this is a form of nationalisation, as it has been portrayed in some quarters....
...Elsewhere, art fair 1:54 and Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj have released an edition of 40 prints (£900) to raise money for those affected by the earthquake that struck Hajjaj’s home country in September,...
...Shortly after the verdict, US attorney Damian Williams said Bankman-Fried had carried out a fraud “designed to make him the king of crypto”....
...Babylon HealthHealthcare start-up Babylon was founded in 2013 by British-Iranian entrepreneur Ali Parsa....
...A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (Abacus)It’s the year for collaborative projects: this collection, timed to mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, includes tales by the likes of Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman...
...Ali Mohamed, climate envoy for Kenyan President William Ruto, noted the huge sums spent each year by companies and rich individuals on business-class and first-class plane tickets....
...The tents are part of an continuing dynamic “in which Hizbollah is testing how it can shift Israel’s red lines”, said Mohanad Hage Ali, senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
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