News Archive - 16 June 2011

> (Adds 'China' to headline) * DHS warns of bugs in software from China's Sunway * DHS says bugs could be exploited in cyberattack * Sunway issues patch to bugs By Jim Finkle NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Software widely used in China to help run weapons systems, utilities...

Multi-billion dollar orders for more than 100 new planes this week underscored the difference between the thriving budget airline sector in Asia-Pacific and the gloom-hit global aviation industry.

Tehran, June 15 (KCNA) -- Iran has so far turned out 50 odd kilograms of enriched uranium with purity of 20 percent, according to the Iranian permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency on June 12.

Tehran, June 14 (KCNA) -- Iran test-fired new-type missiles on June 12. The successful test-firing reportedly made it possible to introduce those missiles into the country's air defense system.

Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- A friendly meeting with staff members of the Iranian embassy here was held at DPRK-Iran Friendship Pyongyang Jungsin Secondary School on Thursday to observe the week of DPRK-Iran friendship.

Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Newspapers of Iran and India carried special write-ups accompanied with photographs of General Secretary Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of his start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

After taking a step back in the wake of Japan's nuclear disaster this year, energy-hungry China is moving cautiously ahead with its nuclear-energy program.

Viewers may have expected the unusual but were instead served up the familiar.

India, a nation of 1.2 billion with a severe unemployment problem is having a difficult time filling a particular job - an official hangman.

Self-determination can be described as the ability of individuals and groups to be able to enjoy the values of life, prosperity, freedom, and human dignity. Self-determination means to define one's own destiny; and is especially effective when involving the younger generation, the empowerment of women, and the economically disenfranchised.

Iran is playing catchup in the Space Age and that's no monkey business. More than 50 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space and 63 years after Albert the rhesus monkey took off in a rocket from the New Mexico desert and flew into space, the...

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new technologies, according to officials familiar with the plans, as a recent wave of cyber attacks boosts concerns about U.

>LONDON (Reuters) - The West's energy watchdog the IEA upped the pressure on producer club OPEC to increase output by forecasting a steep rise in oil demand later this year and predicting the strain on supply would last over the medium term. Oil prices rose in response to the latest...

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> * China, Russia still arguing over pricing of gas * Both say West must not go beyond U.N. mandate in Libya * Urge diplomacy on Iran, six-party talks on North Korea (Adds Hu meeting Putin at Gazprom) By Ben Blanchard and Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW, June 16 (Reuters) -...

> They also said, in a joint statement, they were ready to cooperate with other partners to seek the resumption of nuclear talks with North Korea. (Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk; writing by Ben Blanchard; editing by Steve Gutterman)...

Iran has launched a Rasad Safir rocket, which carried and placed the Rasad satellite into low Earth orbit. The satellite was designed and built by Iran's IRI Aerospace Org.

WASHINGTON, Jun 17, 2011 (AFP) - Two Iranian doctors who were jailed three years ago for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government were awarded a global health prize on Thursday for their efforts to treat patients with HIV.

Chinese President Hu Jintao meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at Kremlin in Moscow, capital of Russia, June 16, 2011. MOSCOW - China and Russia deepened their strategic relationship on Thursday by vowing to support each other on core security issues.

As the situation in Syria worsens, the United States has perhaps stepped to far into the domestic affairs of Middle East countries, Russia and China claim.

It's 1984, and American school kids from California to Maine are getting schooled in how to hide under their desk in case of a military invasion by the Soviet Union. The bear in the woods was breathing down our necks. The phrase "Wolverines!" -- made popular by the Cold...

Two Iranian men who allegedly ran the New Zealand wing of an international drug syndicate appeared in court today after police seized $2.4 million of methamphetamine.Yashar Ghasemi, 31, and Homayun Nouri, 42, are facing a raft...

Three Indonesian teenagers accused of people smuggling have been granted bail by a Brisbane magistrate.

MS. NULAND: Good afternoon, everybody. For those of you who don’t know me, I am Toria Nuland. I am the new State Department press spokesperson. Before we start today, just a brief travel note. Next Wednesday, June 22nd, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ...

This is about the simple reality that governments that are respecting the rights of their peoples have nothing to fear in free speech. Governments that are respecting universal human rights have no reason to fear a free internet.

Call for a Council of All IRI Opposition Leaders: (I wrote a call for unity a couple of weeks ago, now I present how I think we should proceed to unite.) Book a conference anyone can travel to, like Turkey or Malaysia where there are no visa requirements...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran launched a satellite into earth orbit Wednesday, Iran's state TV reported, in a feat that is likely to raise concerns among those who fear Iran's intentions and nuclear development program. The report said the locally produced satellite, called Rasad, or observation, was launched successfully by...

This week, I attended the Intelligence Squared debate on that topic, and was both informed and amused by the exchanges between Alan Dershowitz and David Sanger, a New York Times investigative reporter on the side of freedom, and Gabriel (no relation) Schoenfeld, of the Hudson Institute, and Michael Chertoff,...

Here's the thing about the secret international brotherhood of Internet bandits called Anonymous: It's kind of hard to get an interview with them. When you offer revolutionary groups a chance to say their piece to a mass audience, they generally get back to you within two to three hours,...

> Ahmadinejad met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev after a meeting of a regional security bloc in the Kazakh capital Astana. "We raised the question with Ahmadinejad about the necessity of more constructive cooperation with 5+1 and, more importantly, about increasing the transparency of contacts between...

>ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan held crisis talks with an envoy of Syria's president on Wednesday as Ankara pressed its once well-regarded neighbor to end a crackdown on protesters that it has called "savagery." Relations between Turkey and Syria have been strained as some 8,500 Syrian...

> * Now plans more steps including interest rate rises * Will cut gold tax, issue bonds, may restrict forex sales * Analysts say inflation, sanctions gnawing at currency (Re-leads, adds analysis) By Robin Pomeroy TEHRAN, June 15 (Reuters) - Iran's central bank announced a raft of measures to prop...

>The United States and its allies fear Iran is seeking to build nuclear bombs and are concerned that the long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit can also be used to launch warheads."Iran launched a domestically built rocket and the Rasad 1 (satellite) has been put into...

>CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian who has taken the helm of al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden did not emerge from the crowded slums of Egypt's sprawling capital a militant or develop his ideas in any religious college or seminary. Instead, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri was raised in Cairo's leafy Maadi...

>LONDON (Reuters) - Western oil firms are unlikely to face widespread asset seizures or contract revisions as a result of Arab uprisings, thanks to deft diplomacy, legal protections and efforts to depict themselves as partners of the local citizenry. In the past, big political shifts in the Middle East have...

>WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - It was to be a swap felt around the world - a plan privately discussed by the world's largest oil exporter and the globe's biggest consumer to take the heat out of $120-plus oil prices. In the weeks leading up to the failed June OPEC meeting, U.