News Archive - 20 June 2011

Released to coincide with World Refugee Day, a new U.N. report found that a staggering 80 percent of forcibly displaced people around the world are being hosted by developing nations rather than more economically-stable countries who would be better prepared to absorb them. Prepared by the United Nations...

>VILLEPINTE, France (Reuters) - An Iranian dissident leader called on the United Nations on Saturday to protect her group's Iraqi base after an attack by Iraqi security forces. Camp Ashraf, about 65 km north of Baghdad, is the base of the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), which the United...

>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon may have almost blown his chances for re-election by antagonizing Moscow over the Balkans in 2008 but he has since focused on pleasing the United States, Russia and other big U.N. powers, making his re-election on Tuesday a certainty. The...

> The two teams will meet again on June 23 in Tehran. Musliman's goal came on a counter attack in the 30th minute before a crowd estimated at 18,000 at the half-empty Franso Hariri Stadium in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region. "To lose is not the...

> * Fleet sent to neighbours after Kuwait invasion By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD, June 19 (Reuters) - State-owned Iraqi Airways is offering one of its old Boeing jetliners for sale as scrap as it continues to sell off remnants of a decades-old fleet moved to neighbouring countries after Iraq's 1990...

Jon Huntsman will announce he's running for president tomorrow with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop--just as Ronald Reagan did in 1980. Huntsman, the former governor of Utah and ambassador to China, isn't well-known among Republican voters, but the campaign launch is supposed to highlight his ties to Reagan,...

NEW YORK - Prosecutors in New York City say an Iranian government-owned shipping company has evaded U.S. sanctions by setting up shell companies and funneling millions of dollars through American banks.

Horizon Lines announced a second one-week postponement of a deadline for securing bondholders’ support for a plan to refinance the debt of the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the next Iranian homemade satellites will be placed into space and orbiting at roughly 35,000 km above the Earth.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- The 57th Taormina Film Festival wrapped up on Saturday, handing a special jury prize to Iranian Ahmadreza Motamedi’s “Alzheimer’s”.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- A team of Iranian experts has recently commenced geomagnetic studies on the urban planning at the Achaemenid city of Dahaneh Gholaman in Sistan-Baluchestan Province.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- Combine elements of the poetry of Iranian mystic and poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) with sama, a Sufi ecstatic dance, and view the most beautiful jewelry designs at the exhibition currently underway at Tehran’s 66 Gallery.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- Iran’s Art Bureau Director Mohsen Momeni-Sharif lamented the limited translation of Persian literature into Arabic.

The US Treasury targeted companies and individuals affiliated with Iran's national shipping line Monday with measures to isolate them from US finance and commerce.