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Santiago Sanchez Cogedor’s mother says the Spanish foreign ministry confirmed her son was being held in Iran and was in good health. A Spanish football fan who set out to walk to Qatar to watch the World Cup has been arrested in Iran, his mother says after he dropped out …

Minneapolis CNN Business  —  New inflation data shows that US prices were still uncomfortably high last month, despite aggressive action from the Federal Reserve to rein in decades-high inflation. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, which measures prices paid by consumers for goods and services, climbed by by 0.3% from August …

Opinion by Mumtaz Mia, Juliane Drews (geneva) Friday, October 28, 2022 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Oct 28 (IPS) – The organisational is personal. Every day since the two of us were asked back in 2020 to co-lead the process of culture transformation at UNAIDS, the United Nations organisation which drives global …

Tesla CEO’s purchase caps a six-month saga over the future of the social media giant. Elon Musk has officially taken control of Twitter after finalising a $44bn deal to buy the social media network. In one of his first decisions at the helm of the social media giant, Musk fired …

Abubakar recalled that on Oct. 19, one ASP Abdullahi Garba, the officer-in-charge of Sauwa Police Outpost, had an altercation with Sani-Malumfashi, a Divisional Crime Officer II, with the Argungu Divisional Police Headquarters. He said: “As a result of that, they engaged in a physical combat in front of ASP Abdullahi …

Iranians marched to the gravesite of the young woman killed in police custody and held protests across the country on the 40th day of mourning for her observed under Islamic tradition.

Minneapolis CNN Business  —  The US economy grew last quarter, bouncing back after shrinking in the first half of the year — but there are indications that consumer spending, which powers the US economy, is starting to soften. Gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic activity — rose …

Udom, who led a delegation of members of his cabinet to Bayelsa, applauded the efforts of Gov. Duoye Diri, in standing by his people in their moment of despair. He described the efforts as mark of true leadership. “With what I saw on television, l just could not stay back …

China reported a third straight day of more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases nationwide on Thursday. Chinese cities from Wuhan in central China to Xining in the northwest are doubling down on COVID-19 curbs, sealing up buildings and locking down districts in a scramble to halt widening outbreaks. China on …

Achieving the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement requires not only slowing new construction, but also retiring existing coal power plants early, worldwide. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Opinion by Philippe Benoit (paris) Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Inter Press Service PARIS, Oct 26 (IPS) – With COP 27 approaching, pressure is mounting on …