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Minutes after protests broke out in over 100 cities across Iran on Friday, following a 50 percent hike in fuel prices, officials at the state-run Telecommunication Company of Iran (TIC) put in motion a plan to suffocate the demonstrations, cutting off the oxy…

As clashes escalated significantly over the last week, forcing schools to shut, fears have grown that China may again call on military reinforcements to restore order, a move that would recall the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 when soldiers fired on peace…

President Hassan Rouhani warned on Sunday that "anarchy and rioting" would not be tolerated after fuel price hikes led to deadly mass protests throughout Iran. An estimated 87,000 people took part in the demonstrations, the semi-official Fars news agency rep…

Dublin-based five-piece Silverbacks have slowly been releasing songs throughout the last three years. This past May, they shared the utterly infectious “Pink Tide,” and in 2018 shared two singles: “Just In The Band,” which ranked amongst our favorite songs th…

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - State workers in Chile promised to launch a massive, nationwide walk-off early on Tuesday, a sign protesters were not yet satisfied following the government’s decision to rewrite the country’s heavily critiqued dictatorship-era constituti…

There is one word for Michael Benjamin Washingtons stunning performance in Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities (opening tonight at Signature Theatre, to December 15): virtuosic.  He inhabits every character in Anna Deavere Smith…

With its rich sense of time and place, nuanced portrayal of individual destinies, precisely rendered imagery, and poetic expression of themes, Jason Lutess Berlin is truly a masterful narrative.Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow A watershed achievementBerlin…

(MADRID) — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists won Spain’s national election on Sunday but large gains by the upstart far-right Vox party appear certain to widen the political deadlock in the European Union’s fifth-largest economy. After a fourth natio…

For parents eager to raise a young reader, filling your home with books your child can connect to is essential. You want books all throughout your house not just that one shelf in the living room, but the dining room, the bathroom, , Maria Russo, …

Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival just opened its gates, and fans literally could not wait to get inside -- stampeding past each other ... which Trav seemed to appreciate. The rapper posted a wild video Saturday morning showing ticketholders for the Houston…