Angry Iranian youths torched petrol stations in Tehran and long queues formed at fuel pumps after the Iranian regime announced the start of fuel rationing, triggering nationwide protests on Wednesday.

The head of the Turkish armed forces insisted Wednesday on the need for a military incursion into northern Iraq to hunt down Turkish Kurd rebels based there, but said he needed the government’s green light to do so.

A single tooth has clinched the identification of an ancient mummy as that of Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt about 3,500 years ago, the country’s chief archaeologist said on Wednesday.