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The election of Iran's next president will take place a year early, on June 28, following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month. The vote will lead the Islamic republic to new leadership amid internal discontent, voter apathy and regional turbulence.While the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has the final say on all state matters, the Iranian president sets domestic policy and has some influence on foreign policy.Why are these elections important?The elections offer Iran's leadership a chance to demonstrate that it can handle a disaster such as the unexpected death of a president without destabilizing the country, even as it grapples with domestic protests and tensions with the United States and Israel.The elections also allow the leaders...

Joanna Bailey, a family doctor and obesity specialist, doesn't want to tell her patients they can't take Wegovy, but she's gotten used to it.About a quarter of the people he sees at his small clinic in Wyoming County would benefit from the weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1, which also include Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro, he says. The drugs helped some of them lose 15 to 20 percent of their weight. But most people in the area where she operates don't have insurance that covers the costs, and virtually no one can afford prices of $1,000 to $1,400 a month.“Even my wealthiest patients can't afford it,” Dr. Bailey said. He then mentioned something that many doctors in West Virginia – among the poorest states in the country, with the highest prevalence of obesity, at 41%...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Russia and its security forces in Crimea committed numerous human rights violations during their decades-long occupation of Ukrainian territory.In a case brought by the Ukrainian government, the court found evidence of illegal persecution and detention of those who criticized Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, as well as systematic repression of ethnic and religious minorities in Crimea. Evidence presented to the court painted a picture of a region under the tight grip of Moscow's authoritarian control, where any criticism is severely punished and accountability is non-existent for those with political connections.The ruling by Europe's top human rights court, based on a case first filed in 2014, was a reminder that the re...

European Union regulators on Tuesday accused Microsoft of violating antitrust rules by bundling its Teams video conferencing and collaboration software with a suite of other productivity tools, giving it an unfair advantage over rivals.Regulators said Microsoft's packaging of Teams with other established software tools in Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which include programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, amounts to an unlawful abuse of market dominance that Rival companies like Zoom and Slack couldn't match. . Regulators said companies essentially had no choice but to adopt Teams if they wanted other software made by Microsoft.The charges are just the latest in a series of announcements by the European Union in recent months in its bid to crack down on the world'...

Israel's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the military must begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, a decision that threatens to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government amid the war in Gaza.In a unanimous decision, nine justices found that there was no legal basis for the long-standing military exemption granted to many ultra-Orthodox religious students. Given the absence of a law distinguishing between seminarians and other men of military age, the court ruled that the country's compulsory service laws must apply equally to the ultra-Orthodox minority.In a country where military service is mandatory for most Jewish men and women, exemption for the ultra-Orthodox has long been a point of contention for secular Israelis. But anger over the group...

Kadınların stilini tamamlayan en önemli aksesuarlardan biri olan kadın kolyeleri, her biri özenle seçilmiş tasarımlarıyla dikkat çekiyor. Vovoyo'nun eşsiz koleksiyonunda, her zevke uygun bir kolye bulmak mümkün. Zarif detaylar, kaliteli malzemeler ve özgün tasarımlarla her kadının beğenisini kazanıyoruz. Çocuk Kolyeler: Minik Kalpler İçin Çocuklar için tasarlanan çocuk kolyeleri, sevimli figürler ve canlı renklerle dolu. Vovoyo'nun çocuk koleksiyonunda, güvenilir malzemelerden üretilen ve çocukların güvenliği göz önünde bulundurularak tasarlanmış kolyeler yer alıyor. Miniklerin mutluluğunu ve güvenliğini ön planda tutuyoruz. Çocuk Bileklik: Eğlenceli ve Güvenilir Çocukların enerjik yaşamlarına uygun olarak tasarlanan çocuk bileklikleri, hem şık hem de dayanıklı. Vovoyo'nun çocu...

Unlike most other supplements, fish oil has been rigorously studied, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. But the results of these studies are conflicting, leaving researchers and doctors still debating whether fish oil is beneficial for heart health. They also revealed that taking fish oil is linked to a slightly increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat.That's where the evidence for both the benefits and risks of fish oil lies today.Lots of studies, but unclear benefitsAfter reading cables from Greenland, researchers began looking at people in other parts of the world and found, in study after study, that those who consumed fish at least once a week were less likely to die of coronary heart disease than thos...

Ms. Berkovich, the director, comes from a family of advocates: Her mother is a human rights activist, as is her grandmother, and her father is a poet. On the first day of the full-scale invasion of Russia, Ms. Berkovich was arrested and jailed for 11 days after holding a poster reading “No to war” and allegedly disobeying police officers who asked her accompany them to the station. He also wrote anti-war poems.Playwright Petriychuk rose to fame in the Moscow theater world in 2018, when she gave her first reading at the Lyubimovka theater festival and began gaining recognition and awards. Both women have repeatedly asked that their detention be transformed into house arrest. Ms. Petriychuk has scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, and Ms. Berkovich is the mother of two adopted teenage da...

The White Clam Pizza at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut, is a revelation. The crust, kissed by the intense heat of the charcoal oven, achieves a perfect balance between crunchiness and chewiness. Topped with freshly shucked clams, garlic, oregano and a sprinkling of grated cheese, it's a testament to the magic that simple, high-quality ingredients can conjure.Do you look like me? It is not. The entire paragraph, except the name of the pizzeria and the city, was generated by GPT-4 in response to a simple message requesting a Pete Wells-style restaurant critique.I have a few quibbles. I would never call any food a revelation, nor would I describe warmth as a kiss. I don't believe in magic and rarely call something perfect without using "almost" or some ...

Iranian officials have insisted for decades that the law requiring women to cover their hair and dress modestly was sacrosanct and not even worth discussing. They dismissed the struggle of women defying the law as a symptom of Western interference.Now, as Iran holds presidential elections this week, the issue of compulsory hijab, as the head covering is known, has become a hot topic in the election campaign. And all six men running, five of them conservatives, have sought to distance themselves from law enforcement methods, which include violence, arrests and fines.“Elections aside, politics aside, under no circumstances should we treat Iranian women with such cruelty,” Mustafa Pourmohammadi, a conservative and religious presidential candidate with senior intelligence roles, said at a ro...