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Apple's Got a Worm and Ahmadinejad's Gotta Go

Reality Check: Iran's President challenges a ban, Apple's tax woes, The EU Summit in Brussels, new immigration policies in the US, and man-made earthquakes.

Ahmadinejad's Manoevers

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked Iran's supreme leader to reverse a ban preventing his aide from running in next month's presidential poll.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Presidential candidate Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie flashing the V for victory sign after Mashaie registered his candidacy at the Interior Ministry during the registration for Iran's upcoming presidential election on 14 June

The Guardian Council, charged with vetting all candidates, disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad's former chief of staff, yesterday, as well as ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the June 14 election, leaving a field dominated by hardliners loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

While Rafsanjani, a pillar of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, will not appeal against the ruling, outgoing President Ahmadinejad is not so chill... Middle East expert Shashank Joshi gave us his perspective...

APPLE and the Taxman

Apple CEO Tim Cook was grilled by a US Senate investigative committee today and he had to publicly defend a tax avoidance scheme that shifted at least $74 billion away from U.S. tax collectors.

Cook insisted that Apple pays billions of dollars in taxes on its U.S. earnings and breaks no laws with its tax strategies but he wasn't so forthcoming about the little tricks his company employs to avoid the taxman...Do you know what a "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich" is? Our very own Robert Zikmund does...

Illegal Immigrants in the US

Illegal Immigrants looking to be made into legal citizens of the US have got a better chance of that happening as of today but if they happen to be in a same-sex marriage or civil union, their rights are still not on par with those of heteros. What does that all concretely mean??

The EU Summit

EU leaders have gotten together once again to have a proper chat...this time it's about bank secrecy/tax avoidance and energy development schemes...

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Dutch Region Groningen is Cracking Up

The horror of waking up to a house that is shaking is scary enough...knowing that the earthquake that is putting cracks in your walls is not the work of Mother Nature is even more frightening. Gas extraction in the Netherlands is causing an entire region to crack up...but not in a good way...