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Ebrahim Raisi, ultra-conservative judiciary chief, set to win Iran’s presidential election

Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judiciary chief with a brutal human rights record, is set to win Iran’s controversial presidential election, according to preliminary results announced by the interior ministry and reported by state media Saturday. Raisi, who is currently under US sanctions, emerged as the frontrunner after an election supervisory body barred all of his

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Ebrahim Raisi, ultra-conservative judiciary chief, set to be Iran’s next president

Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline judiciary chief with a brutal human rights record, has won Iran’s controversial presidential election, according to preliminary results announced by the interior ministry Saturday. Raisi, who is currently under US sanctions, emerged as the frontrunner after an election supervisory body barred all of his serious rivals from the race. Analysts described

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Oregon police search for suspect after three people found dead in separate incidents

Police in Oregon are searching for a suspect believed responsible for three separate attacks that left three people dead and one person seriously injured on Friday. “We have not positively identified who this individual is,” Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said at a news conference. However, investigators released several surveillance photos of the suspect,

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A California reservoir is expected to fall so low that a hydro-power plant will shut down for first time

Water in a key California reservoir is expected to fall so low this summer that its hydroelectric power plant will be forced to shut down for the first time, officials said Thursday, straining the state’s already-taxed electric grid. An unrelenting drought and record heat, both worsened by the changing climate, have pushed the water supply

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Historians search for unmarked graves in cemetery

Click here for updates on this story     FAIRWAY, Kansas (KCTV) — Local historians and scientists are searching for unmarked graves in one of Johnson County’s most historically significant cemeteries. The study is ongoing at the Shawnee Methodist Mission Cemetery, a Kansas State Historical site, located on Shawnee Mission Parkway and Canterbury Road. The small plot

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Iranians vote in election all but guaranteed to deliver an ultra-conservative president

Iranians voted Friday in a controversial election that was all but guaranteed to deliver a hardline president after all the other serious contenders were barred from the race. The practically uncontested frontrunner is Ebrahim Raisi, the ultra-conservative judiciary chief, who is currently under US sanctions. His only non-conservative election rival is Abdolnaser Hemmati, a former

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