News Archive - 7 March 2012

>* No U.S. veto on Israeli military optionBy Dan WilliamsJERUSALEM, March 7 (Reuters) - Israel on Wednesday cautiously welcomed the planned resumption of big-power nuclear talks with Iran, insisting that Tehran be denied the means to turn uranium into bomb fuel.With Israel speaking increasingly loudly of resorting to...

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Turkish protesters have condemned the recent burning of copies of the Holy Qur'an by American forces in Afghanistan. Over 500 protesters, who were shouting slogans against the United States, NATO, and Israel, trampled on an American flag and set it on fire in Istanbul on Wednesday. Holding copies of the...

Congress on the noted Iranian poetess, Parvin E’tesami, will be held at the international level for the first time in March 2013, said secretary of the seminar commemorating the poet. Addressing a news conference on the seminar, Asadollah Moazzami-Goudarzi added that the Seminar on Parvin Etesami marking her 105th birth...

Six British troops have been killed when their armored vehicle was caught in a powerful explosion in southern Afghanistan. Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday that the soldiers were killed on routine patrol northwest of Durai Junction in Helmand province when their vehicle was struck on Tuesday evening. All...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday ordered formation of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace and appointed members of it. Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the remarkable influence of the Internet in social and individual aspects of life and called for adoption of suitable programs and use...

IRI's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the allegations by the Israeli premier against Iran’s nuclear energy program reflect Tel Aviv’s deep fears of the wave of awakening in the region. Amir-Abdollahian referred to the recent comments made by the Zionist regime's Prime Minister Benjamin...

Libya’s interim government has accused some Arab countries of supporting and financing the tribal leaders, who have declared autonomy in the east of the country. "Some sister Arab nations unfortunately are supporting and financing this sedition that is happening in the east," Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the National Transitional Council (NTC)...

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has arrived in the city of Nakhichevan in Azerbaijan to participate in the second trilateral meeting with his Azeri and Turkish counterparts. Salehi is scheduled to hold talks with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Turkey, Elmar Mammadyarov and Ahmet Davutoglu, in the Azeri...

Iran describes an introductory statement by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tehran’s nuclear energy program as a repetition of Yukiya Amano’s previous accounts. Speaking on the sidelines of an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna on Monday, Iran's Ambassador to the UN agency...

>AMMAN (Reuters) - The U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos accompanied a Syrian Arab Red Crescent team on Wednesday into a former rebel-held district of Homs where dissidents have reported bloody reprisals by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. "She went in with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to Baba Amr," an...

>The United States and its Western allies - which have led international pressure on Tehran - initially pursued a resolution by the U.N. agency's board of governors to rebuke Iran over what they see as its failure to answer mounting concerns of a disguised bid to develop nuclear arms...

>* Japan's economy shrank less than expected in Q4* U.S. private sector added more jobs than expected in Feb (Updates prices)By Jessica JaganathanSINGAPORE, March 8 (Reuters) - Brent crude rose on Thursday, with prices staying above $124 a barrel on hopes that Greece would win enough creditor support to...

>* Euro, Aussie steady, off lows* Japan logs record current account deficit, yen slips vs dollarBy Chikako MogiTOKYO, March 8 (Reuters) - Asian shares and the euro recovered on Thursday on brightening prospects for Greece to secure a crucial bond swap to avoid a messsy default and U.S. data...

>* Says Israel must be warned of dangers of military option* Washington says must see action, not words, from Iran* Israel warily welcomes new talks between Iran, 6 powers* Election results signal continued Iranian hard lineBy John IrishPARIS, March 7 (Reuters) - France voiced scepticism on Wednesday that a revival...

While time may have distorted viewpoints over the origins of the Jewish State, in the final analysis Israel represents more than a refuge — it is a homeland.

The pain at the pump has returned making that necessary stop for gasoline a ghastly experience with prices leaping over 45 cents since January.

Let's imagine that Rick Santorum is a high school principal.

Hundreds shopped Memorial Middle School's marketplace, with students getting to keep the cash they made.

(MENAFN - Arab News) Mitt Romney's uninspiring showing in Super Tuesday's primaries nonetheless moves him closer to the Republican presidential nomination. But a string of events and voter data ...

Gas prices are at all time highs and could be getting higher, but there are ways you can save.

(MENAFN - Arab News) The 27-nation European Union (EU) has invested heavily in Afghanistan. EU civilian assistance to the country is approximately 1 billion euro per year; the EUPOL mission has been ...

London, Mar.8 (ANI): Micro-blogging social communication medium Twitter has rolled out versions of its site in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu, all right-to-left languages for the first time.According to the BBC, Twitter use the help of 13,000 volunteers to translate its menu options and support pages into these...

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>DUBAI (Reuters) - Political risk in the Middle East has increased significantly with war between Iran and Israel almost inevitable, and precious metals and equities investments offer some safety, Swiss money manager and long-term bear Marc Faber said on Tuesday. "Political risk was high six months ago and is higher...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Newt Gingrich notched a home-field primary win in Georgia, and Mitt Romney moved ahead in Virginia and Vermont as Republican presidential rivals battled coast to coast in a 10-state Super Tuesday showdown.

He pitches two scoreless innings in his first game for team that paid $111 million to get him, and an estimated 150 reporters are present. But he's elusive in interview afterward. Reporting from Peoria, Ariz. — Seated at a table on the far end of an auxiliary locker room that...

“Iran is not telling us everything. That is my impression. [W]e have information that Iran has engaged in activities relevant to the development of nuclear explosive devices.” — Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, yesterday, on Iran’s clandestine nuclear program...

A military confrontation in the Middle East over the Iranian nuclear program is unlikely in the near future, according to some area experts. Still, the unpredictability of the region means all bets are off.

Public anger over high gasoline prices is turning to a familiar target - Wall Street. The role of speculative investors in this year's price spike has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks, nowhere more so than...

Reporting for Kaiser Health News in collaboration with The Washington Post, Susan Jaffe writes: "In the latest effort to enlist seniors in the fight against Medicare fraud, federal officials have overhauled Medicare billing statements to make it easier to find bogus charges without a magnifying glass."

(03-07) 20:32 PST SINGAPORE, (AP) -- Oil prices hovered above $106 a barrel Thursday in Asia as investors remain skeptical that tensions over Iran nuclear program will ease soon. Benchmark oil for April delivery was up... Presented By: Chicago Booth Business Forecast   Ads by Pheedo

A general says as planes and ships have been diverted to operations around the world, the number of Latin America-U.S. drug interdictions has fallen.

If you are a driver or have a friend who drives, you may have noticed that rising gas prices are draining people’s pockets. In fact, driving and fueling behaviors have begun to change as a result of the 14.1-percent year-to-date increase in regular fuel costs. Analysts expect gas to...

Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, there has been a consistent trend of rhetorical extremism among political candidates and policymakers ranging from unqualified personal attacks to inappropriate statements on social issues that has dominated our political discourse. read more

Hope is a many-splendored thing, and apparently it awakened anew on world markets, which generally gained ground yesterday as Greece's bond-swap prospects improved.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Only a third of illegal drugs smuggled from Latin America into the United States are seized by authorities because of a lack of resources, the head of the United States (US) Southern Command said on Wednesday. Related Stories Marines to reduce by half in Afghanistan this year...

WARSAW (REUTERS) - A Polish woman lay nearly upside down in labour for 75 days to save the lives of her two premature babies after the first of three foetuses growing inside her was born prematurely and died. Related Stories Marines to reduce by half in Afghanistan this year Obama...

Thailand's inflation could spike by 8 per cent in 2012, should oil prices spike to above US$200 (6,000 baht) to US$250 per barrel if there is a military confrontation in the Middle East and bring this .....

Top-seeded Australia won't be playing South Korea and will hope also to avoid Japan in the draw for Asia's final qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney rolled to primary victories in Virginia, Vermont and home-state Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, reaching for a decisive advantage in the most turbulent race for the Republican presidential nomination in a generation.

If you were to watch the video above without sound, you might think it’s talking about a new souped up flight simulator game that is combined with some awesome hardware. You wouldn’t be too far from the truth, but in actuality what’s being displayed is a brand new F-35 simulator...

Religion should take election years off. As soon as the presidential campaigns get under way, religion should just go to Cancun and wait them out. Otherwise, inevitably, it gets used.

Cyber criminals are not the only ones buying software flaws, say sources.

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A general says as planes and ships have been diverted to operations around the world, the number of Latin America-U.S. drug interdictions has fallen. Despite intensified counter-narcotics efforts over the last five years, the military's ability to stop drug smuggling into the U.S. from Latin America has declined...

VIENNA — Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has defended US caution in trying to end the violence in Syria, despite biting criticism from lawmakers who questioned how many people would have to die before the Obama administration used force.

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday defended caution in trying to end the violence in Syria, despite biting criticism from lawmakers who questioned how many people would have to die before the Obama administration used force. Even as Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint...

On Super Tuesday, Ron Paul's caucus strategy took a hit in North Dakota, where he'd staked time, hope and money, and where Santorum pulled out a win.But while Romney, Santorum and Newt Gingrich - or their surrogates, to be precise - continued to bicker over who should drop out,...

Chellie Pingree announced that she won't run for Senate, prompting distraught liberals to spike their Tazo Vanillia Rooibos Full Leaf tea with organic white corn vodka.

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Fighting an uphill reelection campaign, French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Tuesday that there are too many foreigners in France. "Our system of integration is working increasingly badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school,"...

Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy said Mitt Romney’s gibes at President Obama’s Iran policy were irresponsible.

The head of the Newark FBI said Wednesday the NYPD's monitoring of Muslims in New Jersey has had a chilling effect on the feds’ ability to gather counter terrorism intelligence.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 5, it became clear why more than 13,000 Americans — most though not all of them Jews, and nearly 1,700 of them from Los Angeles — had come...

President Barack Obama ripped his Republican presidential rivals Tuesday in his first election-year press conference, accusing them of politicizing worries over Iran's nuclear aspirations and "beating the drums of war."

Gas prices are likely to continue to soar before they level off or dip back down, according to one local analyst. Rises in crude oil prices have yet to make their way all the way through the gasoline markets, said Dave Overstreet, public affairs director for AAA Washington in Bellevue.

In an apparent break in last month's bombing that injured the wife of an Israeli diplomat, police in India produced a suspect in court Wednesday, identified by local media as a 50-year-old Indian journalist who worked for an Iranian news agency.

VIENNA (AP) - Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Crude oil output from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) climbed by 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 31.27 million bpd in February from 30.87 million bpd in January, the highest volume from the 12 producing countries since the autumn of 2008, a Platts survey of...

Stocks broke a three-day losing streak on Wednesday, recovering some recent losses after a report showed the U.S. private sector added more jobs than expected last month.

Iran is looking to make friends in South America who will help Tehran block economic sanctions, a key general says.

Second annual event in San Francisco features tech celebrities and $1 million in prizes

Brig. Shaukat Qadir's research gives one of the most extensive descriptions of the arrangements in Osama bin Laden's hideout when U.S. SEAL commandos stormed in, killing bin Laden and four others.

The Iranian government will provide loan assistance for 1,000 electricity projects for the supply of power for 300,000 families.

Remarks With Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski After Their Meeting Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC March 7, 2012 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, hello, everyone. And it’s a delight once again to see my counterpart and friend, and to welcome Minister Sikorski here to the State...

Government hopes of falling inflation and a consequent return by the end of the year to real terms income growth are being threatened by a potent combination of rising oil prices and increased mortgage ...

"JOHN CARTER" (3-D) -- Taylor Kitsch stars in this elaborate adventure-fantasy based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs stories about a Civil War soldier suddenly transported to Mars -- a lush planet inhabited by 12-foot tall, four-armed barbarians.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the nation's top military leader delivered a sober assessment Wednesday of Syria's sophisticated air defenses and its extensive stockpile of chemical weapons in a strategic reality check to the demand for U.S. military action to end President Bashar Assad's deadly crackdown on...

• Bashar al-Assad vows to fight on against 'terrorists' • Amos due in Damascus to lobby for humanitarian access • More reprisal killings alleged in Homs 9.17am: China is bringing workers home from Syria in what Reuters sees as an apparent attempt to avoid a repeat of last year's...

Congressional Republicans and oil industry leaders called Wednesday for more U.S. gas production to combat rising prices, fast becoming an issue in the presidential campaign. Democrats focused on conservation and the role of...

VIENNA - Six world powers found common ground Wednesday on how harshly to criticize Iran, but only after marathon negotiations reflecting the difficulties of presenting a united front at upcoming nuclear talks with Tehran.

Mitt Romney, the frontrunner in the Republican presidential contest, struggled to prevail in the Super Tuesday Republican primary in Ohio amid continuing doubts over his ability to decisively crush his rivals.After more than four...

The Obama administration is slapping sanctions on an Iranian general suspected of allowing Afghan drug traffickers to smuggle opium through Iran to benefit the Taliban.

On Tuesday afternoon, Facebook welcomed Israeli president Shimon Peres to its campus, where he spoke to the company's leadership about everything from Israeli's tech industry to the role of social media in promoting world peace. Peres launched his very own Facebook page the same day -- tagline: "Be my friend,...

New survey shows that 62 per cent of Israelis oppose an attack without U.S. cooperation, though sentiment changes considerably if the U.S. were to back such an attack

From Editor Robert Parry: As the presidential election campaign heats up and the war drums over Iran grow louder, we continue to fill a major hole in American journalism by reporting on difficult realities, both the serious political stakes in November and the geopolitical risks of a new war in...

Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was reportedly killed in Tehran when a magnetic bomb attached to a car by a motorcyclist exploded outside a university in the Islamic republic's capital, according to Iranian news agencies.

A spokesman for Gaza's Hamas rulers says the militant group won't strike Israel if there is a war between Iran and the Jewish state.

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney rolled to primary victories in Virginia, Vermont and home-state Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, reaching for a decisive advantage in the most turbulent race for the

In early trading, Wall Street market indexes moved ahead after a private jobs report showed higher-than-expected gains.

England's fall one place to sixth in the latest Fifa rankings following 3-2 loss to Holland.

Oh sure the market would like to focus on something so mundane as supply and demand but of course if we did that we would not be doing justice to the real market dynamics. Can talks

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pushed back on Wednesday against fresh demands for U.S. military involvement in Syria to end President Bashar Assad's deadly crackdown on his people.

WASHINGTON — As Mitt Romney reflects on his showing on Super Tuesday, he might sneak a peek at clips of President Barack Obama's news conference performance hours earlier.

The mining firm Scotgold Resources uncovers evidence of platinum and other metals on a hillside near Tyndrum.