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Iran pre-Islamic revolution flag was briefly hoisted on the Iranian embassy in London. A man climbed up and tore down the Islamic republic of iran flag and replaced it with the pre 1979 revolution flag with a lion and sun

Orlando Speed World Dragway, an NHRA member track, has decided to ban fully electric vehicles from competition, including test and tune days. The Dragway says they’re making this decision for safety reasons. After reviewing emergency response procedures for its track, for specific full electric vehicles the venue decided the risks fully outweighed the rewards. The mid-Florida track enumerated its rationale for banning full electric vehicles, with the ban taking effect immediately, applying solely to full electric vehicles but allowing hybrid vehicles to continue to compete, as well as to test & tune. The risks include the following: The battery may...

According to Palm Beach Fire Rescue, lifeguards at Ocean Reef Park saw someone operating a powered paraglider when a gust of wind caused a partial parachute collapse, which caused the man to spiral into the oceanA paraglider who fell into a Florida beach on Friday prompted a swift response by rescue crews. According to Palm Beach Fire Rescue, lifeguards at Ocean Reef Park saw someone operating a powered paraglider when a gust of wind caused a partial parachute collapse, which caused the man to spiral into the ocean. Fire rescue said the man fell from 500 feet in the air...

Iranian protestors demonstrating against the theocratic regime will face harsh punishment with absolutely zero leniency, Iran’s top judge has warned — as footage emerged Friday of mosques burning on the streets of Tehran amid the ongoing riots. Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of Iran’s judiciary, issued the stark warning after President Trump vowed to back those peacefully demonstrating across the country. Signaling a potentially violent crackdown, Ejei vowed the punishment for rioters would “be decisive, maximum and without any legal leniency.” The video has been shared by Iranian rights activist Masih Alinejad. “One of Iran’s biggest mosques burned...

Rumours invariably become one of the main sources of public unrest. The line between news and speculation can become blurred quickly, and social media can aid in the quick spread of false narratives. Euronews takes a look at some of the most viral rumours surrounding the Iranian protests. Rumours have been particularly widespread throughout the two weeks of mass protests across Iran. Many of those rumours originate from anonymous users on social media platforms, and are being covered by media outlets, purely for headline purposes. And although some of these rumours carry an element of truth, they should, at large,...

The charges against the bar owner, Jacques Moretti, could be complicated if the public prosecutor concludes that he is partly to blame for the door being locked. Moretti says he does not know why the fire exit door was locked. New details about the devastating fire at the Le Constellation bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, which claimed 40 lives on New Year's Eve, have been revealed; a service door in the basement was locked from the inside. The bar owner, Jacques Moretti, admitted this to investigators, as reported by Swiss broadcaster RTS. Moretti says he found several...

Nick Reiner’s weight gain and change of meds for his schizophrenia treatment was reportedly the catalyst behind his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s brutal murders. Sources made the revelations surrounding Nick’s 2020 diagnosis and subsequent struggles with his medication regimen in TMZ’s new documentary, “The Reiner Murders: What Really Happened,” which aired on Friday. In December, the outlet reported that Nick, 32, was diagnosed with schizophrenia — and in the weeks leading up to his parents’ deaths, the meds he was taking allegedly made him “erratic and dangerous.”

“Civil death” was a punishment under ancient French law—abolished in 1854—that extinguished the legal personality of the convicted individual: loss of property, family rights, and civil existence, while leaving the person physically alive. Civil death—cruel, total, annihilating—was believed to belong to a bygone era. The European Union has just reinvented it—and made it worse. The case of Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud, who has been struck with civil death by the EU, first caught my attention. By a sovereign decision dated December 15, 2024, the EU banned Mr. Baud from its territory and “froze” all his assets. However hard I searched,...

Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, was at least the 15th person fired upon by immigration officials in President Donald Trump's second term. Now, a shooting in Portland, Oregon, by Customs and Border Patrol on Thursday marks the 16th shooting incident by federal immigration officials. Two were injured. Those 16 shooting incidents have resulted in four deaths — including Good — and at least seven injuries, according to a Get the Facts Data Team analysis of data collected by The Trace. In another 15 incidents, federal...

The Brief: Oakland couple's home trashed by strangers who compromised home-sharing rental account Victims say intruders used drugs, had sex, trashed the home, and stole their car Oakland police are investigating Oakland - An Oakland couple said Friday that they're still cleaning up and taking stock after their home was overrun by strangers who compromised a home-sharing account, allowing them to use drugs, have sex and even steal their car. "These are trashy people that were here," said a resident who wished only to be identified as Eric, along with his wife, Jenny. "They were using drugs. There was drug...

Suddenly she’s Golda Meir. Lefty “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – a strident anti-Israel critic – ripped a mob of pro-Palestine protestors who were caught on video chanting in support of Hamas terrorists while marching in Queens. “Hey so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading with a chant saying ‘we support Hamas’ is a disgusting and antisemitic thing to do,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X Friday. “Pretty basic!” The card-carrying Democratic Socialist of America member who reps parts of The Bronx and Queens was responded to a video posted on X showing protestors marching through Queens and chanting, “Say it...

President Donald Trump pushed back on suggestions from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States could capture Russian President Vladimir Putin after Zelensky pointed to Washington’s recent action against Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Trump waved off the idea of such an operation, while venting frustration over the grinding war and his failure so far to bring it to an end. Trump has repeatedly said on the campaign trail that he could end the war on his first day back in office, but despite meetings with both Zelenskyy and Putin, a resolution remains elusive. "Well, I don't think it's going...

They were bound by trust, loyalty and dough — until a betrayal blew a bagel hole in their $50 million a year business. A Queens-based empire that peddles 100 million bagels a year is being torn asunder by a succession fight between the children of founders George Menegatos and Nicholas Evangelinos. The bond between the families behind New Yorker Wholesale Bagels — once thicker than cream cheese — is now toast after Nicholas’ son Stefanos allegedly cut George’s kids out of the business, denying them their father’s company shares after his death, they said in a $25 million Brooklyn Federal...

Published in the medical journal Neurology, researchers found that participants who were more active during a specific window of the day had an increased risk of dementia, a condition characterized by declines in memory, language, reasoning and problem-solving skills. Guided by the brain and influenced by light exposure, circadian rhythm is a roughly 24-hour cycle that determines when we become sleepy and when we’re more alert. In addition to regulating sleep and wake cycles, it also regulates hormones, body temperature and digestion.

BREAKING: Despite intense attacks from the UK government and regulators, Grok has skyrocketed to the #1 spot as the most downloaded app across the entire UK App Store – topping all categories! It’s currently holding strong at: • #1 Top Apps (Overall) • #1 Top Overall • #1 Productivity This massive surge comes right in the middle of heavy criticism and threats of potential bans or restrictions on X and Grok from UK officials, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling the recent AI image generation controversy “disgraceful” and “disgusting,” and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall backing Ofcom to take swift action...

"I will not rest until Iran has a national, democratic and elected government of the people."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's push to stop the bankruptcy sale of more than 5,000 rent-subsidized apartments in the city has been blocked, temporarily, by the federal courts. Mamdani, who was sworn into office last week, directed the city’s Law Department shortly after taking over City Hall to intervene in the bankruptcy proceedings of more than 90 buildings with apartments all owned by Pinnacle, a real estate group. The Mamdani administration says the company owes the city $12.7 million in unpaid fines for housing code violations. The company declared bankruptcy in May after defaulting on more than $560 million...

In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember – and find out if the booze, loud music and/or tour sweeties has knocked the knowledge out of them. This week: The Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando takes the ultimate test!SNIP What is your character called in the 1995 film Heavy? “Jeff.” CORRECT. The boyfriend of Liv Tyler’s waitress character Callie. “River Phoenix had died and [the filmmakers] said ‘you can have his part’. My vampiric glory said yes! It was wicked fun. I got there and didn’t know...

Longtime Greenlanders have told the Daily Mail they are furious with President Donald Trump for once again floating the possibility of taking over their country. Trump revived talk about the United States asserting formal control over Greenland on Sunday, one day after US soldiers captured Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and brought the deposed leader back to New York to face a litany of criminal charges. 'It's so strategic,' Trump told reporters on Air Force One. 'We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it. Jørgen Bay-Kastrup is the CEO...

“Given the option of being able to kidnap any world leader, U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey told the Kyiv Independent he would "take (Russian President Vladimir) Putin into custody and hold him account for war crimes.”