World & Nation
Iran election: Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won the Islamic Republic’s runoff presidential vote, beating hard-liner Saeed Jalili.
July 6, 2024
Iran held a runoff presidential election pitting a hard-line former nuclear negotiator against a reformist lawmaker.
July 5, 2024
Iran will hold a runoff to replace the hard-line president killed in a helicopter crash. Some see low turnout in initial election as a protest.
June 29, 2024
Books
Authors Colson Whitehead, Saeed Jones and Jerry Craft win Kirkus Prizes
Oct. 24, 2019
Iranians voted in a snap election to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May 19 helicopter crash, amid tensions in the Middle East and war in Gaza.
June 28, 2024
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a firebrand populist known for the crackdown that followed his disputed 2009 reelection, is barred from running.
June 9, 2024
Obituaries
Saeed Jaffrey, a veteran Indian actor whose performances in such films as “Gandhi,” “A Passage to India” and “My Beautiful Laundrette” brought him wide notice in the West, died Saturday in London.
Nov. 16, 2015
Jennifer Moxley’s earnest and introspective new poems feel almost like personal essays: They take up questions that vex her in daily life, then try to explain why they won’t go away.
Nov. 28, 2014
Meanwhile, an Israeli airstrike in northern West Bank killed a Palestinian militant and wounded five people, according to Palestinian health officials.
June 30, 2024
Movies
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was scheduled to go to Cannes for the premiere of his movie ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ when he received an 8-year prison sentence.
May 9, 2024