World News TheFOXposts

Iran has identified the five prisoners it hopes to see freed in the United States in exchange for five Iranian-Americans now held in Tehran and billions in assets once held by South Korea DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran on Tuesday identified the five prison ers it hopes to see freed in the United States in exchange for five Iranian-Americans now held in Tehran and billion s in assets once held by South Korea. The acknowledgment by the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York comes as the Biden administration has issued a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions. The moves by both Tehran and Washington appear to signal the prisoner swap is progressing as the money once held in South Korean won is converted into euros and moved to Qatar, where Iran will be able to use it for humanitarian purposes. In a statement to The Associated Press, Ali Karimi Magham, a spokesman for th...

An increasing number of family and friends of Belarusian political prisoners say they are unable to contact their loved ones. LONDON -- An increasing number of family and friends of Belarusian political prisoners say they are unable to contact their loved ones. There are hundreds of political prison ers in Belarus, many of whom were arrested in the aftermath of the disputed 2020 presidential election, when protests and dissent were violently suppressed. Tatsiana Komich hasn’t heard from her sister, Maria Kalesnikava since February. Kalesnikava has been in prison since Sept. 2020 after she refused to be forcibly deported from Belarus by tearing her passport to shreds. Maria Kolesnikova, the last remaining protest leader still in Belarus, gestures making a heart shape inside the defendants' cage during her verdict hearing on charges of undermining national security, conspiring to seize power and creating an extremist group, on Sept. 6, 2021, in Minsk, Belarus. Ramil Nasibulin/BELTA...