Day: September 18, 2022

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 18. The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced an official rate of foreign currencies on September 18, Trend reports referring to CBI. According to the currency exchange rate of the Central Bank of Iran, 6 currencies increased and 32 have decreased in price, compared to September 15. According to CBI, $1 equals 42,000 Iranian rials […]

The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year’s totals, which were the highest in decades. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It’s both the number of challenges and […]

Hurricane Fiona has made landfall in Puerto Rico, knocking out power across the U.S. island territory and raising fears of “catastrophic flooding.” The storm is expected to dump as much as 64 centimeters over portions of the island in the Caribbean. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in a bulletin that Fiona came ashore along the extreme […]