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Once Upon a Time: Courting of Hollywood Blonde by Shah of Iran

June 27, 2019

Entertainment Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial /Reprinted from archived original article/In June 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Grace Kelly in their list of top female stars of ...

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Professor at German University Shares Sweet Childhood Memories from Iran

June 27, 2019

Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/events, Kodoom.com: Professor Madjid Fathi, a Director at Siegen University in Germany has recently shared his sweet childhood memories ...

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From Tehran to New York, Amsterdam, Shanghai and Lagos: Mountains of Trash Drowning The World

June 27, 2019

Health and Science Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /It appears that global warming is not the only unintended consequence of global emphasis on GDP growth through consumerism. Mountains ...

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We Love Islamic Iran but Love Canada More! Iranian Celebrities Look Way Different Outside Iran

June 20, 2019

Entertainment and Society Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /The recent trip to Canada by another popular Iranian TV host (Rambod Javan) and images of her pregnant (third) wife in Canada ...

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March 27-29, 2020

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Some Good News For the Planet: Germany's Cycle Highways and Floating Solar Farms

June 19, 2019

Science, Society and Economy Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /It seems like some governments and scientists are finally finding smart ways to curb carbon emissions./Recently it was ...

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Will Any Iranian Americans Attend The 2019 Summer Camp for Billionaires?

June 18, 2019

Economy and Entertainment Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /According to Wall Street Journal Every July, around 300 captains of industry—from Elon Musk to Warren Buffett—descend on Sun ...

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Video by Fardin Claims Radio Javan Connected to Iranian Music Mafia

June 17, 2019

Amin Fardin, an exiled Iranian video blogger and founder of Youtube channel Poshte Pardeh (Behind The Scenes) discusses Music Mafia inside Iran, agents like Mohsen Rajabpour, and ...

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Deaths from Suicide, Alcohol, Drugs and Gun Violence A National Crisis in America

June 13, 2019

According to a 2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance published by The Commonwealth Fund, the rise in deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drug overdose has reached a ...

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Use of Social Media Makes us Lonely, Depressed and Less Intelligent, According to More New Studies

June 13, 2019

Social media use not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it, the economists said in a working paper published this month by the economics and ...

Most of Iran will experience snow or rain storm in the next 3 days

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Most of Iran will experience snow or rain storm in the next 3 days

بر اساس اطلاعیه سازمان هواشناسی، با تشدید فعالیت سامانه بارشی طی سه روز آینده چهارشنبه، پنجشنبه و جمعه ( ۳۰ بهمن ، ۱ و ۲ اسفند) شاهد بارش برف و باران شدید در بیستر استان های کشور خواهیم بود، بنابراین هموطنان مراقب باشند./ با تشدید فعالیت سامانه بارشی که از روز چهارشنبه ۳۰ بهمن ماه آغاز می شود ...

Video: Iranian wrestler forfeits match he had won 6 seconds before reaching Asian finals!

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Video: Iranian wrestler forfeits match he had won 6 seconds before reaching Asian finals!

نماینده وزن ۸۷ کیلوگرم کشتی فرنگی ایران در رقابت های قهرمانی آسیا در حالیکه تنها ۶ ثانیه تا رسیدن به فینال و کسب حداقل مدال نقره فاصله داشت، به داور اعلام کرد بدلیل مصدومیت نمی تواند به مبارزه ادامه بدهد و حتی به تیم پزشکی اجازه مداوای پایش را نداد!

Rolling blackouts start in Iran due to fuel shortages

Feb 17, 2020

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Rolling blackouts start in Iran due to fuel shortages

کمبود گاز تحویلی به نیروگاه های برق باعث قطعی پراکنده برق شده و احتمال ارائه جدول زمان بندی برای قطعی برق وجود دارد./ از ۶۱۰ میلیون مترمکعب عبور کرد، افزایش مصرف گاز در بخش خانگی محدودیت های فراوانی را برای بخش های صنعت و تجاری ایجاد کرده است. میزان تولید گاز در کشور ۸۰۰ میلیون متر مکعب است و با ...

Environmental activists accused of spying sentenced to 58 years of prison in total

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Environmental activists accused of spying sentenced to 58 years of prison in total

قاسم شعله سعدی، وکیل و حقوقدان، احکام صادر شده برای فعالان محیط زیست در ایران را مجازات هایی سنگین دانست و گفت که اتهامات این فعالان با با بررسی های وزارت اطلاعات، همخوانی ندارد./ بعد از دو سال کش و قوس های بسیار و وارد شدن اتهام های مختلف به هشت فعال محیط زیست بازداشتی در ایران، احکام این ...

Instagram account in Iran uses fake crime to boost subscribers

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Instagram account in Iran uses fake crime to boost subscribers

رئیس پلیس پیشگیری تهران بزرگ گفت: فردی که برای جمع کردن فالوور (دنبال کننده در فضای مجازی اینستاگرام) کلیپ با محتوای جنایی تولید می کرد؛ بازداشت شد. به گزارش روابط عمومی پلیس پیشگیری تهران؛ سردار «کیوان ظهیری» اظهار داشت: حدود ساعت ۱۷ روز گذشته، شهروندی در تماس با پلیس ۱۱۰ به ماموران اعلام کرد ...

Iran confirms German and Iranian prisoners were traded; Pictures of 4 recently freed Iranians

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Iran confirms German and Iranian prisoners were traded; Pictures of 4 recently freed Iranians

عباس موسوی، سخنگوی وزارت امور خارجه، خبر آزادی احمد خلیلی از زندانی در آلمان را رسانه ای کرده بود. حال غلامحسین اسماعیلی، سخنگوی قوه قضائیه، از مبادله این زندانی با یک شهروند آلمانی زندانی در ایران خبر داده است./ خبر مبادله یک زندانی ایرانی به نام احمد خلیلی و یک زندانی آلمانی در رسانه ها و ...

No Set Up Stages! FIFA to Iran: Women must be allowed in all games

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No Set Up Stages! FIFA to Iran: Women must be allowed in all games

گزارش ها حاکی از آن است که فیفا طی نامه ای بر لزوم فراهم کردن حضور تماشاگران زن در مسابقات فوتبال تیم های ایرانی تاکید کرده است. روزنامه همشهری دوشنبه ۲۸ بهمن به نقل از منبعی در وزارت ورزش نوشت که فدراسیون جهانی فوتبال در نامه خود به فدراسیون فوتبال ایران اعلام کرده که باید شرایط حضور زنان در ...

Azmoon 4th in Asia: Who is the most expensive Asian footballer?

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Azmoon 4th in Asia: Who is the most expensive Asian footballer?

در بین پنج بازیکن گران قیمت برتر آسیا، فوق ستاره کره ای، سون هیونگ مین در صدر است و ارزش او از مجموع ارزش چهار بازیکن رده های بعد خود بالاتر است. بر این اساس پنج بازیکن گرانقیمت آسیایی فوتبال جهان مشخص شدند که به شرح زیر هستند: علیرضا جهانبخش که با امضای قراردادی پنج ساله به ارزش ۱۸ میلیون پوند ...

Sharifi Niknafs escapes Iran; Esteghlal board member accused of massive fraud

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Sharifi Niknafs escapes Iran; Esteghlal board member accused of massive fraud

نیک نفس به عنوان یکی از اعضای جدید هیئت مدیره این باشگاه تهرانی معرفی شد، اما این عضو جدید باشگاه استقلال گویا یکی از متهمان فراری فساد کلان اقتصادی است و به دنبال پیگیری های باشگاه خبرنگاران جوان مشخص شد که او با همکاری عده ای توانسته از کشور فرار کند و به امارات برود. بر اساس اطلاعات واصله و ...

Bloomberg Nods to Progressives With Wall Street Transaction Tax

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Bloomberg Nods to Progressives With Wall Street Transaction Tax

- Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg released a series of financial regulation proposals Tuesday that represent a sharp leftward tack for the Wall Street billionaire, more closely aligning himself with progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The regulations ...

Jerusalem: Jordan condemns Israeli Western Wall railway plan

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Jerusalem: Jordan condemns Israeli Western Wall railway plan

These are external links and will open in a new window/ The Western Wall attracts millions of visitors and worshippers a year Jordan has condemned a decision by Israel to advance a plan to build a railway line and station underneath the heart of Jerusalem's Old City. The Israeli transport ...

Sanders and Bloomberg exchange blows as Democratic race heats up

Feb 17, 2020

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Sanders and Bloomberg exchange blows as Democratic race heats up

Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders. (David J. Phillip/AP, Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images)/ in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, with Bernie Sanders accusing billionaire Mike Bloomberg of buying the election and attacking the former New York City mayor’s record on ...

Syria conflict: UN says Idlib displacement 'overwhelming' relief effort

Feb 17, 2020

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Syria conflict: UN says Idlib displacement 'overwhelming' relief effort

These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ The aid operation in north-eastern Syria is being "overwhelmed" as the number of people displaced by the government offensive in Idlib rises, the UN said on Monday. Since early ...

Coronavirus updates: Americans quarantined on cruise ship return to U.S

Feb 17, 2020

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Coronavirus updates: Americans quarantined on cruise ship return to U.S

• Americans evacuated from quarantined cruise ship land in the U.S. • 99 new infections confirmed on the Diamond Princess cruise ship • Scramble to track Cambodia cruise passengers after coronavirus case reported • Japanese health ministry staffer tests positive for coronavirus • Japan on brink ...

New Mexico woman who was pregnant with third child still missing three years later

Feb 17, 2020

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New Mexico woman who was pregnant with third child still missing three years later

Jennifer Brooks was looking forward to the holidays. It was a time for her family to all be together. But, exactly one week before Thanksgiving 2017, her 29-year-old daughter Elizabeth Brooks Hernandez disappeared. “Holidays will never be the same,” Jennifer told Dateline. “Every day is hard, ...

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Callamard: Soleimani killing breached international norms

in a US drone strike breached international norms on extraterritorial military operations and sets a dangerous precedent that could "be a recipe for disaster", Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial executions has said. She told Hardtalk's Stephen Sackur: "The UN Charter ...

Libya conflict: EU agrees new patrols to stop arms flow

Feb 17, 2020

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Libya conflict: EU agrees new patrols to stop arms flow

These are external links and will open in a new window/ An Italian warship in Tripoli: Italy remains a magnet for desperate migrants EU states have agreed to launch a new military mission off the Libyan coast to enforce a shaky UN arms embargo. The 27 governments still have to draft a legal text ...

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Jerusalem: Jordan condemns Israeli Western Wall railway plan

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The unlikely friendship saving Egypt’s synagogues

Two Egyptian women have come together to save the country's lost Jewish heritage. Magda, who is Jewish and Marwa, who is Palestinian and Muslim, meet weekly to clean, rescue and repair books, synagogues and cemeteries. The Jewish community in Egypt shrank after the Israeli-Arab conflict in 1948. ...

Cuba burning tires to power factory as US oil sanctions bite

Feb 17, 2020

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Cuba burning tires to power factory as US oil sanctions bite

A man waits to replace an empty propane gas drum in Havana, on January 14, 2020: the Communist island is facing widespread fuel shortages in the wake of new US sanctions (AFP Photo/YAMIL LAGE)/ Havana (AFP) - The Cuban government has ordered a cement factory to burn old tires to power its ...

Airlines, officials trace path of couple diagnosed with coronavirus that flew from Hawaii

Feb 17, 2020

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Airlines, officials trace path of couple diagnosed with coronavirus that flew from Hawaii

Delta Air Lines and Hawaiian Airlines are working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Japanese health officials to trace the path of a couple from Nagoya, Japan, who were diagnosed with coronavirus after returning from Hawaii. Hawaiian state health officials say the ...

Turkey’s Erdogan Joins In on Vilification of Soros

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Turkey’s Erdogan Joins In on Vilification of Soros

- An Istanbul court acquitted prominent businessman Osman Kavala of charges of plotting to overthrow the government during mass protests that shook the country in 2013. Nine defendants were cleared, and arrest warrants for others living abroad have been rescinded. Others accused in the case ...

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Bloomberg Nods to Progressives With Wall Street Transaction Tax

Feb 17, 2020

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Gunmen kill 24 in attack on Burkina Faso church

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Gunmen killed twenty-four people, including a pastor, in an attack on a church during Sunday mass in northwestern Burkina Faso, four security sources told Reuters on Monday. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack, which comes as jihadist groups ...

Video captures dramatic moment a landslide crumbles a Tennessee home

Feb 17, 2020

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Video captures dramatic moment a landslide crumbles a Tennessee home

An angry landslide in Tennessee ripped through Hardin County, Tennessee, on Saturday and Sunday, shredding a pair of homes in its path. The two homes were previously in danger of collapsing before heavy rain triggered the landslide that swept the large residences into the Tennessee River. Both ...

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Neanderthal 'skeleton' is first found in a decade

These are external links and will open in a new window/ Researchers have described the first "articulated" remains of a Neanderthal to be discovered in a decade. An articulated skeleton is one where the bones are still arranged in their original positions. The new specimen was uncovered at ...

Feb 17, 2020

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Cruise passengers scatter, take Cambodia bus tours despite virus fears

A scramble intensified Monday to trace passengers from a US cruise liner allowed to disembark in Cambodia despite at least one traveller later being diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus. There are fears scores of cruise goers have been scattered across the world without full health checks -- as ...

Pelosi Warns Europe That Huawei Represents Chinese State Police

Feb 17, 2020

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Pelosi Warns Europe That Huawei Represents Chinese State Police

- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped up U.S. warnings about Beijing’s global telecommunications ambitions, saying Chinese operator Huawei Technologies Co. must be prevented from controlling the next generation of wireless networks. Pelosi said autocracy in China makes Huawei a threat to western ...

Coronavirus updates: Wuhan hospital director dies as death toll nears 2,000

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Coronavirus updates: Wuhan hospital director dies as death toll nears 2,000

• 1,868 dead, 72,436 confirmed cases in mainland China • Quarantine on cruise ship in Japan could end as early as Wednesday • Apple says coronavirus will hit revenue expectations • 'Every scenario on the table' in virus outbreak: WHO 1,868 dead, 72,436 confirmed cases in mainland China in China ...

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DOJ: Huawei Dealt To North Korea, Iran

Federal prosecutors have charged Chinese tech company Huawei with racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets from U.S. companies. The indictment also alleges Huawei violated U.S. sanctions by conducting business with Iran and North Korea.

11 Children Among 26 People Shot During Single Weekend of Gun Violence in Chicago

Feb 17, 2020

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11 Children Among 26 People Shot During Single Weekend of Gun Violence in Chicago

At least 26 people have been shot — and four killed — over the holiday weekend in Chicago, including 11 children, in the second straight weekend of widespread gun violence to impact the city. No children were among the fatalities. According to the Chicago Police Department, 15 shooting incidents ...

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