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Iran’s judiciary has seized assets belonging to 240 dissidents, journalists and public figures and frozen 182 of their bank accounts, the judiciary-affiliated Mizan news agency reported, as Police Chief Ahmadreza Radan announced on Sunday that more than 6,000 people had been arrested over the January protests.

Norwegian officials seized the Russian state-owned ship named “Professor Molchanov” on Wednesday at the port of Barentsburg in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.