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Nationwide protests have been shaking Iran for weeks. They started Dec. 28 in response to soaring prices, then turned into wider anti-government protests against the clerical rulers who have governed the country for nearly 50 years. Source link

Last week, a second Native American-owned corporation announced it was severing a multi-million dollar contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after community pressure.   Source link

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she ruled out a U.S. military intervention to combat drug cartels, following a “good conversation” on Monday with President Donald Trump on security and drug trafficking. Source link

CBC News obtained more than a dozen wiretap recordings from a two-year Colombian federal police investigation into a multinational drug-smuggling organization based out of Colombia. The organization moved cocaine to the U.S., Europe, Asia and northern Africa by air using human drug mules and by sea through shipping containers. Source link

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Source link

Reza Pahlavi has sought to speak as an Iranian leader despite living outside the country since protests against the clerical regime erupted late last month. Here is a closer look at the 65-year-old exiled son of royalty, whose support within Iran is open to question. Source link

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Sunday the Trump administration had threatened him with a criminal indictment and served grand jury subpoenas over ​Congressional testimony he gave last summer regarding a Fed building renovation project, an action Powell called a “pretext” aimed at putting further pressure on the central bank to lower interest […]

Residents started returning to a contested neighbourhood in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Sunday after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. First responders entered to tend to residents, clear rubble and disarm mines. Source link

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said no more Venezuelan oil or money will go to Cuba and suggested the communist-run island should strike a deal with Washington, ramping up pressure on the longtime U.S. nemesis. Source link

More than 1,000 apartment buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv are still without heat following a  devastating Russian attack  earlier this week, local authorities said on Sunday. Source link