News Archive - 4 July 2011

SINGAPORE, July 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ ICIS pricing, the leading price reporting service for the global chemical industry, has expanded its coverage on the global base oil market with the launch of weekly Middle East price assessments in the …

TEHRAN -- The first phase of the 'national Internet' project will be launched by the end of the current Iranian calendar year, which ends on March 19, Iranian Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour announced in Tehran on Monday.

TEHRAN - Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari has said that Iran will not restrict itself to closing the Strait of Hormuz if the country is threatened.

Freeze the frame. There were 29 kids involved through most of a school year, doing interviews and shooting videos and telling the stories of their lives, but freeze that one frame and you'll capture the spirit of the whole project.

TEHRAN - For the first time the Islamic Republic of Iran participated in a meeting of the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which opened in La Maddalena, Italy yesterday and closes today.

Vienna — The U.N. Security Council plans to meet next week to discuss what to do about Syria's refusal to cooperate with a probe of its alleged secret nuclear activities, diplomats told the Associated Press on Monday.

As a boy in southern Iran , in the time of the shah, he ate up the stories coming over the TV from so far away: the endless intrigues of "The Days of Our Lives ," the splendid adventures of " Tarzan ."

TEHRAN - The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council has said that strong relations between Iran and Egypt would change the balance of power in favor of regional countries.

Even as the Egyptian Government looks to revive the country's economy, it has turned down the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s stand-by agreement. A bold move no doubt, but was it a populist decision or purely a financial one?

Former Iran international Mehdi Mahdavikia has signed a one-year deal with top flight newcomers Damash Gilan after being overlooked by former club Persepolis.

About 100 people — many dressed in red, white and blue — watched 24 people walk onto the grounds of Harmony Hall Monday morning as citizens from 15 other countries. Less than an hour later, they watched them leave the historic home as Americans....

LAHORE, July 4: The government is alive to loadshedding and is working to deal with it on a preferential basis, Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar told reporters at the Nespak office on Monday.

Current US policy toward Cuba conditions economic engagement with the Castro regime on its respect for basic human rights and enactment of genuine political and economic reform.

Talk to high officials in Western capitals these days and you hear that it's time for the United Nations to "do something" about Syria. "The UN cannot remain silent," says British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "The Syrian president has reached the end of the road," echoes French Foreign Minister...

Baghdad (AFP) July 4, 2011 Iraq's government said Monday it would not reconcile with members of Al-Qaeda or anyone who has killed Iraqis, but suggested it was open to talks with those who had fought American forces. Reconciliation Minister Amir al-Khuzai made the comments at a news conference after US...

Syria's alleged violations appear to be in the past and aren't a current threat, so sanctions are unlikely.

In a May 19 speech at the State Department, President Barack Obama promised that the U.S. would use all its “diplomatic, economic and strategic tools” to promote reform across the Middle East and support transitions to democracy.

The Axis of Evil may never be the same. A changing of the guard is looming for the James Bond villains of the world, and the bedtime stories with which we scare our children are going to have to go searching for new bogeymen.

Associated Press VIENNA — The U.N. Security Council plans to meet in closed session next week to discuss what to do about Syria’s refusal to cooperate with an investigation of its alleged secret nuclear activities, diplomats said Monday.

TEHRAN, July 4-- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warned on Monday against fueling disputes among Iranian officials and creating clamor in the country, stressing the importance of unity, the local satellite Press TV reported.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said that Iran will not restrict itself to closing the Strait of Hormuz if it is threatened, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Monday.

Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Mohsen Khojasteh said the value of Iran's annual oil and gas production has reached 217 billion U.S. dollars in the last year and will rise in the coming years because of the vast new investments in the sector, the English-language daily Tehran Times reported on...

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said that Iran is ready to cooperate with Egypt on peaceful nuclear program, the state IRIB TV's website reported on Monday.

HONG KONG : There was a goal glut in Asian qualifying for the 2014 World Cup on Sunday with Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Myanmar among those who advanced into the second round.

Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Reza Taqipour said Monday that Iran is set to launch the pilot and first phases of its national Internet project in late August, local Press TV reported.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said that no financial transaction is carried out at the military piers belonging to the IRGC, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Monday.

The treasure trove in a temple versus an economy that struggles to find funds for the Kochi metro project is reflective of the overall Kerala picture.

>AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops stormed houses in Hama on Monday as thousands of people took to the streets shouting "God is greatest," in the city which saw huge protests last week against President Bashar al-Assad, residents said. They said some of the soldiers and police who swept into Hama...

>Lawmaker Esmail Kosari told Monday's newspapers the Americans would be tried in absentia and their files passed on to international tribunals.He did not identify the officials but it is likely they are the same people listed on a parliamentary bill to be subjected to Iranian sanctions. They include former...

DePaul professor Dr. Kumiko Watanuki knows a thing or two about the importance of embracing world diversity. One might say she wrote the book on it. Dr. Watanuki, a native of Japan, has lived in the United States for over fifty years.

Prince William and wife Catherine were set for a day of dragon boat races and search and rescue drills in eastern Canada Monday after two protest-filled days in French-speaking Quebec.

VIENNA - Diplomats say the U.N. Security Council will meet next week on Syria's refusal to co-operate with an investigation of its alleged secret nuclear activities.

Iran: Iran plans to prosecute 26 current and former American officials, an Iranian lawmaker said Sunday, potentially escalating a tit-for-tat dispute between the two countries.

( Emory University ) Clumsy fruit flies with poor posture are helping an international team of scientists understand inherited intellectual disability in humans -- and vice versa. The flies can't hold their wings tightly against their bodies, and have trouble with flying and climbing behaviors, because they have mutations in...

Gunmen who kidnapped two young Swiss tourists in a volatile southwestern Pakistani province have reportedly taken them to a notorious Taliban-al-Qaeda tribal zone.

While the current financial crisis dominates all current press coverage relating to Greece, there is no reason why we should use this as an excuse to ignore other key Anglo-Hellenic issues.

Diplomats say the U.N. Security Council will meet next week on Syria's refusal to cooperate with an investigation of its alleged secret nuclear activities.

Gulf Arab rulers should enact economic and political reforms or risk raising the ire of their citizens, Kuwait's prime minister was quoted as saying in the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat on Monday.

Iran plans to invest more than 40 billion dollars in its oil industry by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (ending March 20), a senior Iranian Oil Ministry official says.

An Iranian lawmaker has questioned an American official's offer of talks with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, describing the proposal as “political mischief.”

A book by Iranian author Kaveh Farrokh highlighting the ancient Persia's military technology has been translated into Persian.

The shaky snippet of video looks like it was inadvertently filmed, as if the amateur cameraman - in his haste to escape the intense gunfire crackling in the background - forgot to press pause and wound up recording his sandal-clad feet as he ran along the sidewalk. It's meant to...

SOCHI, Russia - Differences over the war in Libya and missile defence are hindering efforts to build a strategic partnership between NATO and Russia, Russia's foreign minister said Monday.

Russia claimed the title at the Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association Football World Championships, and were also among eight nations who secured tickets to the 2012 Paralympic Games.

Knesset members Aryeh Eldad (National Union) and Nachman Shai (Kadima) walked out of a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's working group on the Middle East and North Africa Monday morning, when Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Ahani addressed the group.

BAGHDAD, 4 July 2011 (IRIN) - Decades of war and international sanctions have turned Iraq into one of the worst places for children in the Middle East and North Africa, with around 3.5 million living in poverty, 1.5 million under the age of five undernourished and 100 infants...