News Archive - 10 June 2011

Gender apartheid in Iran is as damaging to that society as racial apartheid was to South Africa. Don't legitimize it. FIFA's decision to ban Iranian women footballers from a game against Jordan last Sunday because they wore headscarves and not the approved cap had soccer lovers in a fit...

On Thursday June 2, 2001, women's rights activist, Haleh Sahabi (aged 54) was killed as a result of brutal beatings by the Iranian regime's security forces. Her body was later snatched from her house and buried secretly to curb the outcry of the family, friends and ordinary Iranians. Haleh,...

With a new push for even more "crippling" Iran sanctions coming out of Congress, and renewed signs from the president that further sanctions may be in the offing, it is more important than ever for Americans, particularly Americans of Iranian descent, to evaluate the unintended impact these sanctions are...

Yesterday I received the distressing news that the father of blogging in Iran, Hossein Derakshan (aka Hoder) -- the young person who had helped create the on-ramps for hundreds if not thousands of bloggers inside Iran as well as inspiring Iranian-Americans around the world to express themselves -- failed...

> * Suspects accused of attacking websites of Sony, banks * Spanish police say further arrests may follow (Recasts making clear police did not link to big PlayStation attacks; adds comment from Anonymous, details throughout, BOSTON dateline, byline) By Iciar Paneda and Jim Finkle MADRID/BOSTON, June 10 (Reuters) - Spanish...

>MADRID, June 10 (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested three suspected members of the so-called "Anonymous" group on Friday on charges of cyber attacks against targets including Sony's (6758.T) PlayStation store, governments, businesses and banks. The police said the accused, arrested in Almeria, Barcelona and Alicante, were guilty of coordinated...

>BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fears that Syria may slide into civil war are growing after a week when the government said over 120 servicemen were killed at a town near the Turkish border. As it sent tanks on Friday into Jisr al-Shughour, a mainly Sunni Muslim town whose 50,000 inhabitants had...

>BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Shi'ite militia group in Iraq on Friday claimed a rocket attack this week on a Baghdad base which killed five U.S. soldiers, a strike that revived security concerns as U.S. forces prepare to pull out at the end of the year. Kata'ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah...

Saudis to boost output, sending oil prices lower By CHRIS KAHN The Associated Press Published Jun 10, 2011 04:18PM MDT New York • Saudi Arabia’s still the boss when it comes to oil. The world’s biggest oil exporter plans to increase production to 10 million barrels per day, the highest...

The Iranian government on Friday announced that it filed 20 complaints with a number of European courts against the European Union`s sanctions against Iran, the Fars news agency reported. Majid Jaafarzadeh, head of the International and Legal Affairs Department of Iran`s Presidential Office, said that the 20 lawsuits challenged the...

National Police identified the three as leaders of the Spanish section of a loosely knit group of hackers that calls itself "Anonymous."

MORE Iranians are coming to the country either as Malaysia My Second Home participants, on business or as students but public opinion is negative towards them due to many drug-related arrests highlighted in the media.

Frustrated investors shouldn't unpack the station wagon just yet...while the markets looked gloomy l

Protesters booed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or at least a giant papier-mâché head of him, outside five corporate headquarters in Midtown. The companies are accused of doing business with Iran and indirectly funding its nuclear weapons program.

Ben Affleck has started the casting process for his Tehran hostage thriller Argo and the first name out of the hat is Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin ( Little Miss Sunshine ) who will play Hollywood producer Lester Siegel, an O.S.S. veteran described as equal parts bookie and rabbi,...

Siemens has fixed bugs in its Simatic S7 industrial computer systems, used to control machines on factory floors, power stations and chemical plants.

A 58-year-old Port Coquitlam man has been charged with importing a controlled substance and trafficking in a controlled substance in connection with a trip from Iran last year.

ATLANTA -- Looking to get stronger, Kulsoom Abdullah took up weightlifting a couple of years ago. She quickly grew to love the male-dominated sport, entering local competitions and even allowing herself to dream of one day making it to the Olympics. She'd like to see how far this passion might...

VIENNA -- OPEC's stunning admission of major dissent within its ranks has left it reeling and its status as the world's oil power-broker tarnished, perhaps beyond repair.

Spanish police say they have arrested three suspected computer hackers for allegedly belonging to a loose-knit international activist group that has attacked corporate and government websites around the world.

An Atlanta weightlifter wants permission to be able to wear what she considers a more modest uniform while competing in Olympics-sanctioned competitions.

Iran is taking legal actions at European courts over the European Union's (EU) unilateral sanctions levied against the Islamic Republic, says a senior official at the Iranian presidential office.

Syrian security forces appear to be showing no let-up in their violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. Prominent Syrian human rights activist Radwan Ziadeh has drawn up three possible conflict scenarios.

In the first part of his presentation, Pierre Mauriaud described a number of graphs and trends well known to those who study Peak Oil. These included the discovery trends outlining peak discovery in the 1960s, changes in OPEC oil reserves in the 1980s, and the Hubbert curve that shifted due...

When a nation as powerful as the United States bases policy on bogus history, it can become a grave danger to others and to itself. Yet, that is what now goes on daily in Official Washington, with senior officials routinely citing false narratives and elite journalists accepting myths as truth.

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The Syrian army moved in on a border town on Friday to seize "armed" foes, state television said, after some 2800 residents fled into Turkey for fear of a military assault on protests against Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Britain this week came under renewed pressure to boycott an event marking the 10th anniversary of a notorious UN anti-racism conference after the US announced it would not take part and British Jewish leaders urged the UK to pull out.