DUBAI: Pensioners protested in Iran on Monday against soaring living costs, according to Fars news agency and social media reports, in a further challenge to authorities grappling with weeks of unrest.
Demonstrators shouted “our expenses are in dollars, our income in rials” in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the semi-official agency reported.
“About 1,000 retirees gathered to protest peacefully and were escorted by the police” in the city, Fars added.

HEBRON, West Bank: Palestinian police made a number of arrests on Monday as protests against soaring prices for food and other necessities spread a day ahead of a planned strike to demand action from the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority.
Lawyers said at least nine people had been detained and police removed a number of tents set up in the street by protesters, who are calling for a general strike in Hebron, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
A spokesman for the Palestinian security services did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

ANKARA: The disappearance of Mohammed Bagher Moradi, an Iranian dissident journalist who took shelter in Turkey nine years ago, has fueled concerns that he is another victim of Iranian intelligence and abduction operations that have been active in the region.

NABLUS: An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the West Bank early this year has killed thousands of livestock, pushing Palestinian farmers already living under occupation to the brink of bankruptcy.

RABAT: Morocco on Sunday began welcoming an influx of its citizens living in Europe after the pandemic led to a halt in what has been called one of the world’s biggest cross-continental migrations.
The last such effort in the summer of 2019 saw 3.3 million people and more than three-quarters of a million vehicles cross the Gibraltar Strait.
The North African country is just 14 km from the coast of Spain, which has announced it will also put in place special measures for Moroccans from June 15 for two months.