News Archive - 7 September 2011

>The Obama administration said it had yet to decide, and noted that in any case there was no agreement with Baghdad that any of the 46,000 American troops currently in Iraq should remain next year.The lawmakers were discussing media reports that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta supported a plan to...

> "The fire has been controlled and the reason for the fire is unknown but it is under investigation," said Abdollah Kabi, a member of parliament's Energy committee. (Reporting by Parisa Hafezi; editing by James Jukwey)...

The son of U.S. film director Oliver Stone – who angered some Americans with a recent movie about anti-U.S. Latin American leaders – is in Iran doing the groundwork for a documentary, Iranian media reported.

Russia isn’t currently planning to build any new nuclear stations in Iran after operations start at the Persian Gulf state’s first atomic plant in Bushehr, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said.

We—a group of Nobel Peace Laureates—are writing today to ask you to do the right thing for our environment and reject the proposal to build the Keystone XL, a 1700-mile pipeline that would stretch from Canada’s Alberta tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Israel is tired of Hollywood filming Jesus's crucifixion in Italy and the Crusader invasion of the Holy Land in Morocco.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran will sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to further promote bilateral relations in the field of agricultural products trade.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that the $400 billion in cuts that the Pentagon will face over the next 10 years should be manageable, but anything beyond that poses a threat to national security.

As a police officer in Albany for more than three decades, Jim Stueve learned and grew with a community that was doing plenty of learning and growing of its own.

Members to meet business leaders, job creators

ST. AUGUSTA - The St. Augusta City Council on Tuesday approved a preliminary property tax levy of $925,000, an increase of about a 2.8 percent from this year.

Parties have opposing ideas amid dismal employment news

Iran, a key ally of Damascus, has blamed the United States and Israel for instigating more than five months of protests in Syria.

OVER 50 teams are expected to take part in the 13th annual Great River Amazon Raft Race event this October in Peru.

The world has no logo for human rights, but this year the German Foreign Ministry has launched a worldwide competition to remedy that. More than 190 countries were responsible for 15,375 online submissions...

This month many of us will be getting ready to plan our spring gardens with an assortment of spring blooming bulbs. Whether we order them from a catalogue or choose each one individually from our local nursery/garden center, most believe that all bulbs are perennials.

Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates told an audience at the University of North Texas that Americans shouldn't forget the lessons of the past, the lessons of Sept. 11, 2001.

KERMAN, IRAN : Iran on Tuesday said it arrested five heavily-armed members of al-Qaeda in the country's southeast, local media reported. The men were said to be planning attacks inside Iran.

Tehran, Sep 7 : At least four workers were injured as fire broke out at Iran's biggest refinery Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

The CIA's armed drones and paramilitary forces have killed dozens of al-Qaida leaders and thousands of its foot soldiers. But there is another mysterious organization that has killed even more U.S. enemies in the decade since the 9/11 attacks.

Tehran, September 6 (KCNA) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that no one should allow the sworn enemies to find the opportunity to control the regional countries.

Somewhere behind those bushy beards and black turbans, Iran 's ruling clerics must know that their predominantly youthful nation regards them as a group of constipated, joyless old men. Paranoid, too, but increasingly with much to be paranoid about.

Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA) -- Seminars, round-table talks, photo exhibitions and film shows were held in Democratic Congo, Bangladesh and Iran on Sept. 1 to mark the 63rd anniversary of the DPRK.

Ali Lohan now looks different after recently becoming a model, with her face seemingly skinny and with a thinner body, as shown in the photos below. Ali Lohan then and now (Click Image To Enlarge) Image Credit: Getty Images/Splash News As reported at entertainment news sites on Wednesday, September 7,...

Three Iranian men were hanged in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Sunday "for acts against the Sharia law and bad deeds".

We all remember where we were on Sept. 11, 2001, when al-Qaida launched its horrific attacks on the United States. In the decade since, no number of commissions, books, films and reports has been able to end the misconceptions about what 9/11 meant, America’s response to it and the nature...

In comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh’s solo autobiographical play about informing her Iranian-immigrant, Muslim parents that her boyfriend, Duncan, is moving in with her, her father — struggling to fully comprehend that Duncan is an atheist — delivers a theory that explicates the show’s perplexing title: “All Atheists are Muslim.” Noorbakhsh...

IFEX member Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has temporarily suspended its WikiLeaks mirror site following WikiLeaks's decision to publish its full archive of 251,000 U.S. diplomatic cables without redactions, citing concerns for the safety of confidential ...

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Several special events are scheduled this weekend in the Flathead Valley to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Weapons expert Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch stood amid piles of emptied missile crates in a nondescript warehouse.

A list of Sept. 11 anniversary ceremonies from across the region

Plunging into the deep end with Ryan Gosling, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Olsen, George Clooney, Vanessa Paradis . . .

ON April 15, 2008, India’s most televised anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare received the World Bank’s Jit Gill memorial award for ‘outstanding public service’.

DICK Cheney remains unrepentant. Out to sell his autobiography as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, George W. Bush`s former vice president has no regrets about the Iraq war, which he as one of the leading neo-cons orchestrated.

Iranian GEM-TV host denies running down Malaysia in 'Time' magazine article Thursday, September 8th, 2011 10:35:00 KUALA LUMPUR: GEM-TV host Abed Rangamiz denied discrediting Malaysians who have given him a second home and called Time magazine journalist John Krich a "cheat".

> But that's not to say that some artists didn't rise to the occasion -- though to come up with a list of 10, I widened the net and broadened the scope. Is a 9/11 song only a song about or prompted by the attacks? Or can a 9/11 song...

An artificial-intelligence computer named Cleverbot stunned the world with a stellar performance on the Turing Test — an IQ test of sorts for "chatbots," or conversational robots.

The New Zealand Rugby Union today announced the commencement of Mark Adam to the role of General Manager, Commercial.

As the region gears up for observances, ranging from a monument dedication to a candlelight service and moments of silence, groups of area bibliophiles are marking Sunday’s Sept. 11 anniversary with a series of book discussions and guest lectures relating to the incident and how it changed America.

At this Wednesday night's debate between 2012 Republican White House hopefuls, the former movie actor and president was name-dropped like a top Hollywood agent during awards season.

edit@hollywoodreporter.com (Gregg Kilday) The post-apocalyptic thriller stars Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Michael Eklund, Cory Hardrict, Dominic Monaghan and Shannyn Sossamon read more

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Debate newcomer Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney clashed over their job creation records, health care and Social Security at the Republican presidential debate Wednesday night.

TEHERAN, Iran, 7 September 2011 â€" The three-year-old girl with a pair of lace wings runs around the coffee table with her five-year-old brother, laughing out loud, as the camera crew sets up lights and equipment around the apartment. The children’s mother, film actress Leila Hatami, asks them to go...

Good afternoon. Thank you, Richard, for that introduction. I want to express my appreciation to the U.S. Institute of Peace for hosting today’s event. Congratulations on the opening of your new headquarters.

International experts from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have examined an undetonated chemical bomb in Iran's western city of Sardasht, Press TV reported.

Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei U-18 squad's fate of clinching a spot into the quarterfinals of the 39th Asia Schools Football Tournament, will lie on today's penalty shootout against Sri Lanka and Singapore following a crushing 5-1 defeat to Iran yesterday.

Mohamed Benghazi, a rebel fighter from the coastal city of Misratah, is picking his way through a row of warehouses in the sandy, abandoned compound of an associate of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Benghazi is looking for 14.5-mm and 32-mm ammunition for his antiaircraft gun, and he manages to...

Post 9/11 in the arts: Finding musical catharsis By celia R. baker Special to The Tribune Published Sep 7, 2011 06:51PM MDT Words fail in the face of tragedy as enormous as the 9/11 attack of 2001. They can only recount the sterile facts: disintegrating towers; falling bodies; the instantaneous...

In the 1980s, before Iran’s cultural defenses were battered by the Internet, Maryam Keshavarz was a preteen threat to national purity. The U.S.-born filmmaker remembers traveling to her parents’ homeland to visit her cousins, bearing such prohibited gifts as pop-music cassettes. “I would be sweating bullets going through...

The United States is showing "disdain" for Arabs by trying to prevent the Palestinians from gaining statehood recognition at the United Nations, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Iran President Ahmadinejad says Syria's Assad should have dialogue with protesters; 11 killed in new Syrian violence

The songstress performed to a sold-out crowd of 12,000 people at the MGM this weekend.

Syrian President Bashar Assad should back away from his violent crackdown on protesters and enter talks with the opposition, Iran's leader says.

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad and Tehran are discussing the setting up of a branch of an Iranian bank in Pakistan.

The mystery of one of the most convincing pieces of UFO evidence has now been solved.

From advanced anti-aircraft missiles to many thousands of shells and land-mines, the dictator's forces left behind arms for a ready-made insurgency -- and some choice items for the international terror market

Ah, so that's what Google's masterplan is regarding the defense of Android against the patent trolls. HTC has just launched a few more defensive patent lawsuits against Apple, and while that's by far no longer newsworthy, it is this one time. You see, HTC is suing Apple over 9 patents...

The Obama administration pushed back Wednesday on reports it has decided to keep a few thousand troops in Iraq next year -- a number that will do little to ease security concerns.

By Ann McCreary and Marcy Stamper On school mornings, Liberty Bell High School history teacher Rocky Kulsrud gets up early to prepare for the day.

Three women Nobel laureates have joined South African social justice groups in urging president Jacob Zuma not to appoint Mogoeng Mogoeng as the country's chief justice.

IRAN has stepped up the jamming of the BBC's Farsi-language television service.

The MorphOS Team has just released an update to the MorphOS 2 SDK. The archive comes with a brand new programmer's editor offering autocomplete, syntax highlighting, jumping to definitions, declarations and documentation, etc for C based projects. Scribble's display layer is based on a port of the well known Scintilla...

Hundreds of surface-to-air missiles, craved by terrorist groups and "rogue states", have disappeared in the past few days, looted from one of Libya's overflowing arms dumps. Related Stories Boost for embattled premier Gillard Ousted president's ally murdered Bees set new record for high-altitude flying Obama's $300bn economic stimulus package set...

Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi met with his Cuban counterpart Jose Machado Ventura in Havana on Wednesday at the start of a two-day visit aimed at bolstering trade ties, local media reported.

Yahoo! is asking Americans how September 11 changed them. Below is an account from a reader.

A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says that the country is ready to face “most dangerous” threats.

Human Rights Watch discovered several weapons-storage sites in Libya where surface-to-air missiles are missing, raising concerns that the weapons could arm an Iraq-style insurgency.

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This week Iran claimed it's actually a whopping 14 percent bigger than previously thought.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States, Britain, France and Germany are accusing Iran of violating U.N. sanctions prohibiting any launches using ballistic missile technology, as well as an arms embargo.

Hackers who broke into a Dutch web security firm 'operated with the co-operation of the Iranian government.'

"Liberal activists in America deride churches for upholding traditional marriage but seem mostly silent when Islamist regimes execute homosexuals and adulterers."

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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration, there have been 10 major disasters this year As deadly fires continue to burn across bone-dry Texas and eight inches of rain from tropical storm Lee falls on New Orleans, the US is beginning to count the cost of nine months of...

The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of September 5th and September 12th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.

Israeli military attache in Turkey returned home for consultations.

Detroit is receiving current news attention for two main reasons. First, the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks causes reporters to spotlight the region's large and prominent Arab and Muslim communities. Second, the current focus on jobs and President Obama's scheduled September 8 speech leads reporters to look...

The typical way to increase capacity on a network is to add more infrastructure, but thatâs an expensive undertaking. It can also be time consuming and frustrating for network operators who have to get permission to put up new towers, or dig up the ground to lay cables. This is...

Authoritarian regimes dream through propaganda and so, to see what they're fantasizing about, we regularly check in on what state-controlled media outlets have been churning out. Iran: British wars are predicated on a pack of lies Iran's state-run news outlets have been lashing out at the U.K. with particular...

Monday, Aug. 29 Ill winds blow Wall Street good: Lower-than-expected damage toll from Hurricane Irene pushes insurance company stocks higher … Hurricanes … in Vermont? Flooding from Irene creates worst natural disaster in Vermont since 1927; at least three killed … Shelter from the storm: Algeria gives asylum to 31...

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Sources close to Canonical and IBM are telling me that Ubuntu may soon be certified on IBM's System p mini-computers and blades and System z mainframes.

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LISBON, Portugal - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Syrian President Bashar Assad should back away from his violent crackdown on protesters and enter talks with the opposition.

The Associated Press The Associated Press LISBON, Portugal Syrian President Bashar Assad should back away from his violent crackdown on protesters and enter talks with the opposition, Iran's leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday. "There should be talks" between the Syrian government and its opponents, Ahmadinejad said in a live interview...

Book Passage in Corte Madera offers free author readings and other free events open to the public.

Experts say the country's decentralized infrastructure might be less vulnerable than Iran's, but it could also make response more difficult.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met with an executive from US firm Caterpillar on Wednesday, emphasising that Iraq needs quick solutions to its power woes, a statement from the premier's office said.

edit@hollywoodreporter.com (Etan Vlessing) TIFF organizers condemn Iran from disallowing Iranian filmmaker Mojtaba Mirtahmasb from bringing his film, "This Is Not A Film," to Toronto. read more

The Iranian vice president says the Islamic Republic fully supports the people of Cuba among other Latin American nations in their fight against oppressive powers.

Sentiment among professional US investors is souring as worries over dysfunctional domestic politics, a lack of economic tools and expectations of a fundamentally altered Europe set in. 8 Sep 2011 6:20 AM

Ben Affleck arrived at a LA studio this morning still modeling a shaggy hairstyle and showing love for Mohammad Ali in a purple t-shirt. He's been spotted logging long hours on the set of his latest directing project, Argo , though Jennifer Garner , Violet, and Seraphina have stopped by...

One word is often used in naming streets in the Midwest, Locust. Why was it so popular?

Jerry Donald used to observe Sept. 11 by asking his students at Middletown High School to discuss their memories of the event and write them down so they could have a personal account to pass on to their children.

Three senators pushed for keeping more troops in Iraq Wednesday.

BASRA, Iraq: The Obama administration favors keeping a smaller military force in Iraq beyond this year than U.S. commanders believe is necessary, officials said Wednesday, although even a relatively tiny U.S. contingent may be too big for White House advisers who are worried about the slumping U.S.