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Hit It! - Passenger, Pitbull, Other Tops On World Music Charts

Hit It! - Passenger, Pitbull, Other Tops On World Music Charts

Here are some of the songs topping the charts from music hot spots around the world.


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The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand" turned 50 in late 2013. The Fab Four's best selling single of all time was released on Nov. 29, 1963 in the UK, and marked the start of the "British invasion" in the American music industry with its U.S. release on Dec. 26. Here, the Beatles play their single at the Ed Sullivan show in Feb. 1964:

Cover photo: clip-still from " expand=1]HWY: An American Pastoral"

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Iran's Use Of Death Penalty Has Doubled, Targeting Protesters And Ethnic Minorities

Without drawing attention to public executions like it did last year, the regime has quietly continued to mete out capital punishment: increasing both death sentences and the carrying out of executions, on pace in 2023 to double from the previous year.

Photo of clashes between ​Iranian police and protestors on Tehran's Keshavrz Boulevard on Sept. 2022

Iranian protestors on Tehran's Keshavrz Boulevard on Sept. 2022

Ahmad Rafat

The tribunals of the Islamic Republic of Iran have accelerated the churning out of their specialty: death sentences. The latest were issued in the southwestern city of Ahwaz for six members of the local Arab minority and suspected separatists.

The defendants, named as Ali Majdam, Muhammad Reza Muqaddam, Moin Khanfari, Habib Deris, Adnan Gheibshahi and Salem Musawi, had been charged with terrorist activities in the Khuzestan province, in the southwest of the country, in the years 2018-2020, and may have been members of an Arab separatist group, the Harakat al-nidhal.

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