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Teachers in Iran have gone on strike for the second time in as many months, protesting low wages. 

With the fall of the Iranian currency, the rial, and rising inflation, teachers cannot make ends meet. 

“The recent financial crisis has impacted teachers in a way such that their income barely feeds them for 15 days. After that, they have to request loans from relatives and shopkeepers,” said one teacher in a phone call with Rudaw.

Nein, es ist keineswegs nur Saudi Arabien, das die Verantwortung für die drohende furchtbare Hungersnot im Jemen alleine trägt.

Thirty-five Yemeni and international NGOs called Wednesday for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in Yemen, where they warned 14 million people were now "on the brink of famine".

The joint appeal was signed by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Action Against Hunger, CARE International, Oxfam, Doctors of the World, and Yemeni organisations, according to a statement.

Kontiunitäten im Irak: Nicht nur unter Saddam wurde das Land mit Massengräbern überzogen, der IS, zum Teil ja eine Gründung ehemaliger Ba'thisten, führte diese blutige Tradition fort:

Die Opfer sind vermutlich Polizisten, Soldaten und Zivilisten: Im Irak sind nach Angaben der Uno in früheren Gebieten des "Islamischen Staats" mehr als 200 Massengräber entdeckt worden.

Iranian infrastructure and strategic networks have come under attack in the last few days by a computer virus similar to Stuxnet but “more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated,” and Israeli officials are refusing to discuss what role, if any, they may have had in the operation, an Israeli TV report said Wednesday.

Ein weiterer iranischer Anschlag in Europa scheint gerade vereitelt worden zu sein. Diesmal in Dänemark. Die dortige Regierung fordert nun von der EU Konsequenzen:

The Danish Government says Iran’s regime plotted to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition leader inside Denmark.

Seit Tagen streiken im Iran erneut Lastwagenfahrer. Inzwischen gibt es auch international einige Solidarität, vor allem angesichts einer Drohung, die Streikenden müssten hingerichtet werden:

Yemen could face the “worst famine in the world in 100 years” if fighting continues, the United Nations has warned, as The Independent learned an official declaration of famine would likely be announced in just a few weeks.

Lise Grande, the UN’s coordinator for Yemen, said that as many as 13 million civilians could die from starvation if a Saudi Arabia-led coalition does not halt its bombardment of the impoverished country.

Both the Assad regime and Jordan have cut off food to more 50,000 displaced people in the Rukban camp in southeast Syria, as supplies run out.

Relief workers and refugees said on Thursday that the regime is blocking routes to the camp, near the Syrian-Jordanian border, while Amman is stopping aid deliveries.

“More than a week ago the Syrian regime cut all the routes of supplies towards the camp. There are now only very small amounts of food that smugglers bring,” said Abu Abdullah, the head of the civil affairs council that runs the camp:

As Turkey continues its investigation into a vanished Saudi journalist, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a deal with the US in northern Syria had been postponed. Speaking on Thursday the president, returning from a trip to Hungary, said the agreement with Washington over the Syrian town of Manbij was delayed “but not dead.”

Über die Anfänge der Massenproteste in syrien und ihre, meist inzwischen getöteten oder 'verschwundenen' Protagonisten schreibt Nicola Cutcher im New Statesman: