After days of denials, Iran acknowledged early Saturday it had shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight Wednesday, blaming the attack on human error. Videos from inside Iran shared on social media Monday showed university students in Isfahan and the capital, Tehran, chanting against the country’s clerical rulers while riot police deployed nearby. ReutersThe extent of the protests and the amount of violence used to try to stop them were hard to assess because of tight restrictions on social media and the news media inside the country. Iran may also face demands for compensation from nations whose citizens were killed on the plane, Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko of Ukraine told Reuters on Monday in an interview in Singapore. The talks would include five nations, he said: Canada, which lost 57 citizens; Ukraine; Afghanistan; Sweden and another country he did not identify.

Source: bd News24 January 13, 2020 18:22 UTC