The alliance’s 70th-anniversary gathering was punctuated by testy exchanges with President Trump and a video of world leaders appearing to criticize him. Published Dec. 4, 2019Updated Dec. 5, 2019ImageThe NATO leaders’ meeting at The Grove hotel and resort in Watford, north of London, on Wednesday.Credit...Al Drago for The New York TimesTrump canceled a news conference and called Trudeau ‘two-faced.’President Trump abandoned plans on Wednesday for a news conference that was scheduled after the NATO meeting, saying that he had already…

State television acknowledged killings of protesters, some hours before U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran "is killing perhaps thousands and thousands of people right now as we speak." By REUTERS  DECEMBER 3, 2019 18:34 People walk near a burnt bank, after protests against increased fuel prices, in Tehran, Iran November 20, 2019. Picture taken November 20, 2019 (photo credit: NAZANIN TABATABAEE/WANA VIA REUTERS) Iranian authorities confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that security forces had shot dead demonstrators during…

Middle East|Iran Used Firearms in Deadly Crackdown on Protesters, Officials AdmitThe government said security forces had fought back against “enemy cells” as demonstrations swept the country, but it said the death toll had been exaggerated. The wreckage of a building that was burned during recent protests in Shahriar in northern Iran.Credit...Vahid Salemi/Associated PressPublished Dec. 3, 2019Updated Dec. 4, 2019, 8:28 a.m. ETTwo weeks after protests gripped Iran — and quickly turned deadly — the government has acknowledged that security officers…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption A minister said 731 banks and 70 petrol stations were set ablaze during the unrest Iranian state TV has said security forces killed what it called "thugs and rioters" during last month's mass protests against a petrol price rise.Activists have accused the authorities of deliberately covering up the scale of the crackdown on the four days of unrest in more than 100 locations.Amnesty International has said at least 208 people were killed, but others have…

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry last week, claimed that Iranian employees working for foreign broadcasting companies are "proof of collaboration in terrorist actions with the enemies of Iran." Iranian diplomats and officials welcome guests to the residence of Iran's charge d'affaires in London for a ceremony to reopen Iran's Embassy in London (photo credit: REUTERS) In an official response to a Reporters Without Borders (RSF) statement, the Iranian Embassy in London denied that Tehran's ambassador, Hamid Baeidinejad, has been terrorizing Iranian…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state television on Tuesday acknowledged security forces shot and killed what it described as “rioters” in multiple cities amid recent protests over the spike in government-set gasoline prices — the first time that authorities have offered any sort of accounting for the violence they used to put down the demonstrations.Amnesty International believes the unrest and crackdown that followed, beginning in mid-November, killed at least 208 people. An Iranian judiciary official disputed the toll…

The resolution will ask the UN to recognize the 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran. "This is the deed to our land," stated Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations as he read from the Bible at the Security Council, April 29, 2019 (photo credit: screenshot) WASHINGTON – Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, announced on Tuesday his intention to file a resolution recognizing Jewish refugees from Arab countries.Danon announced the initiative during a General…

Hong Kong, Huawei, opioid crisis: Here’s what you need to know. Dec. 2, 2019Good morning.We’re covering an expanding global trade war, China’s retaliation over U.S. support of Hong Kong and an intimate look at an American high school torn apart by the opioid crisis. ImageA worker moving a roll of aluminium cable at a plant in Barcarena, Brazil. Last week the country’s currency fell to a record low against the dollar.Credit...Paulo Fridman/BloombergTrump expands global trade warPresident Trump said on Monday…