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Iran targets celebrities, media over Mahsa Amini protests
Iran targets celebrities, media over Mahsa Amini protests
World
by  AFP

Iran stepped up pressure on celebrities and journalists Thursday over the wave of women-led protests sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the Islamic republic's morality police. Police have also arrested journalist Niloufar Hamedi of the reformist Shargh daily, who went to the hospital where Amini lay in a coma and helped expose the case to the world.

BBC to cut hundreds of jobs at World Service
BBC to cut hundreds of jobs at World Service
World
by  AFP

Nearly 400 staff at BBC World Service will lose their jobs as part of a cost-cutting programme and move to digital platforms, the broadcaster announced on Thursday, paring down its Iranian-language service among others. No language services will close, the broadcaster insisted, although some production will move out of London and schedules would change.

'Extraordinary' elephant that survived poaching dies in drought-hit Kenya
'Extraordinary' elephant that survived poaching dies in drought-hit Kenya
Africa
by  AFP

An "extraordinary and resilient" African elephant who defied all odds to give birth despite being shot five times by poachers has died in Kenya's drought-ravaged north, conservationists said on Thursday. During the wholesale massacre of elephants for ivory, Monsoon lost two of her own calves to poachers, and scientists believed she would never give birth again after the trauma of being shot.