Unrest

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday has blamed the latest unrest in the country on the United States and Israel, the ISNA news agency reported. Read More

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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday that foreign interference were behind recent unrest and anti-government protests in Tehran and other cities in Iran. Read More

Mount Redoubt, the volcano across Cook Inlet that erupted in the spring, is rumbling again with shallow earthquakes and is being closely monitored by scientists. Read More

Writing at The Daily Beast , Rouzbeh Parsi and Trita Parsi look at whether the Iran regime has reached a breaking point, noting "the irony that the end of the Iranian theocracy may have come on the most important religious day of the Shiite calendar." Read More

Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has promised his support for tobacco growers who mounted protests yesterday demanding payment of agricultural subsidies, according to a Novinite story. Read More

Social unrest, driven by abuses of power and a growing wealth gap, is on the increase in China, according to one of the country's leading think tanks. Read More

Workers at the Tahmoor Colliery have stepped up industrial action over a disputed work agreement by marching through Tahmoor yesterday. Read More