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Iraq protests enter 2nd month, top cleric warns foreign actors against interfering Iraq’s top cleric warned foreign actors on Friday against interfering in the country’s anti-government protests as they entered their second month. As the demonstrations have evolved since October 1 from rage over corruption and unemployment into calls for the “downfall of the regime,” more than 250 people have died and 10,000 have been wounded in the past month, AFP reported. In his weekly sermon, read by a representative, the top Shiite religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said that “no regional or international actor may seize the will of the Iraqi people and impose its will on them,” Sistani’s statement came a day after comments by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....

Is EU looking to break up Facebook? RT’s Boom Bust delves into the details Social media network Facebook's policies around political advertising have come under scrutiny lately, and the European Union has said that the company’s online marketplace is “killing competition.” Boom Bust is joined by Hilary Fordwich of the British-American Business Association to discuss the antitrust regulation. According to Fordwich, the basic issue in the EU is that they have to find a way to tax companies because of the bloc’s sluggish economy. “So, they are looking to break up Facebook… but they are also looking to increase taxation on the different entities,” she says. Fordwich explains that “we’re seeing the pressure in the business community” because social netwo...