Tataloo’s music became popular among the Islamic Republic’s youth, as it challenged Iran’s theocracy at a time when opposition to the country’s government was splintered and largely leaderless.
Day: June 8, 2025
Family reported man fell into silo of urea on Sunday afternoon
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Specialist fire crews were working on Sunday to rescue a man in his 80s trapped in a silo filled with urea in regional Queensland.
A Queensland fire department spokesperson said a family member of the man reported just after 1.30pm he had fallen into a silo on the property near Eurombah, north of Roma.
Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush
They come by night. Armed with pickaxes, shovels and jackhammers, looters disturb the dead. Under the cover of darkness, men exhume graves buried more than 2,000 years ago in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, searching for treasure.
By day, the destruction caused by grave robbers is apparent. Three-metre-deep holes mar the landscape of Palmyra, where ancient burial crypts lure people with the promise of funerary gold and ancient artefacts that fetch thousands of dollars.
Reducing budget would involve closing parts of institution promoting UK soft power abroad, leaving gap for Russia to push propaganda
Hours before Rachel Reeves stood up to deliver her budget last year, government officials were still in tense negotiations with bosses at the BBC over how much the World Service would be given.
The amount they were haggling over was relatively small – just £5.5m out of a total budget of £400m. But BBC chiefs warned the government that if the cuts were imposed on them, they would have to close several language stations in parts of the world where the Russians already hold influence. Doing so would be a gift to Moscow, they added.