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The Lebanese General Security detained Lebanese academic and political analyst Makram Rabah for five hours on Monday following his criticism of Hezbollah’s military presence in the Baalbek region. Rabah’s views were taken from a…
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An Iraqi court has overturned the death sentence handed down over the 2020 killing of prominent academic Hisham Al-Hashemi and sent the case back to investigators. Ahmed Hamdawi Oueid was sentenced to death by a Baghdad criminal court in…
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Iraq opened an investigation into the case of a dual Israeli-Russian academic who has been missing in Iraq since March, a government spokesman said on Friday. Bassem Al-Awadi’s comments were the first official Iraqi statements since…
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An Israeli-Russian academic who went missing in Iraq a few months ago is alive and being held there by Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. A statement from Netanyahu’s…
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An Iranian court has sentenced influential sociology professor Saeed Madani Ghahfarokhi to eight years in prison, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday. Madani, 62, who has published books on topics including prostitution, violence against…
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Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah was released from Iran’s Evin prison, France said on Friday, but it was unclear what the conditions of her release were. Adelkhah has been in prison since Iranian authorities arrested her in 2019…
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Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British company, has ranked 40 Russian universities on the world's top 40 educational institutions for the quality of their curricula. As for Moscow State University, it entered the list of the world's top 50…
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