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The Washington Post documents the effects of the economic crisis on Greece's poor. It points out that progress made in the previous 28 years for Greece's poor was wiped out in the last seven years.

The unemployment rate peaked at 28%, cities are filled with smog in winter as people can't afford heating and the conditions are back to the way they were in 1980.

An Iranian journalist for a reformist news outlet who travelled to Lausanne to report on nuclear talks has applied for political asylum in Switzerland, the foreign ministry in Tehran said.
      
Amir Hossein Motaghi, who worked for the Iran Student Correspondents Association (ISCA), was sacked on March 24 after his bosses learned of his defection, a ministry statement said.

Apple chief Tim Cook slammed what he called a wave of "dangerous" laws in several US states that he said promote discrimination and erode equality, in an editorial published March 29.
      

The ISIS “butcher’s” identity has been reportedly revealed.

According to the BBC and the Washington Post, “Jihadi John”, the masked terrorist executioner who beheaded hostages is one Mohammed Emwazi, the son of a wealthy family from west London and the holder of an IT degree.

"Jihadi John", the masked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant linked to the beheading of Western hostages, was named on Feb. 26 as Kuwaiti-born London computer programmer Mohammed Emwazi by experts and the media.
      

A former Marine was sentenced on Feb. 24 to life in prison without parole after being convicted of murdering the US Navy Seal whose story inspired the blockbuster movie "American Sniper."       

The United Nations Security Council has approved the appointment of Bulgarian diplomat Nikolay Mladenov as UN envoy in the Middle East.

Mladenov will replace Dutch diplomat Robert Serry, according to sources close to the matter, as cited by the The Washington Post and the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.

Mladenov has been UN envoy in Iraq since 2013.

British intelligence agency "spied on journalists"

LONDON -- GCHQ "saved emails" from journalists at BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other major news organizations, the Guardian reported, according to AP.

The newspaper said on Monday its information was based on an analysis of documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

A Libyan accused over the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in Africa has died days before he was to stand trial in New York A Libyan accused over the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa died on Jan. 2, days before he was to stand trial in New York, his lawyer said.

Turkey’s Ambassador to the United States Serdar Kılıç has penned a letter to U.S. daily The Washington Post to slam an article that criticized recent media operations in Turkey as a threat to democracy.