Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Khomeini

• World Press Freedom Day: Authors say protests help

  Exiled Chinese author Yu Jie joined other writers including Salman Rushdie on the 20th observance of World Press Freedom Day in appealing to China to ... 

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  Rushdie relives magic of 'Midnight's Children'

  Thanks to the printed word and the moving image, Salman Rushdie has recaptured the worst part of his life and relived one of the best. Last fall, the ... 

• Report: Blast injures several people in south Iran

  An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that an explosion has injured several people in a port in the south of the country. The late ... 

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  Iran president still fiery in twilight of term

  There was nothing essentially new in the message to Washington from Iran's president on Sunday: Repeating last week's statement by the Iranian supreme ... 

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  Vatican dismisses Iranian link to pope shooting

  The Vatican is dismissing Mehmet Ali Agca's latest claim about who ordered him to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The Turkish gunman, who has changed ... 

• John Paul II's gunman says Iran behind '81 attempt

  The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II has changed his story once again, saying in a new autobiography that Iran's late leader Ayatollah ...