News Archive - 12 May 2012

Palestine is for the entier Muslim world and must be liberated, Secretary of the IRI Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili said on Saturday. He made the remarks in a meeting with the Foreign Minister of the democratically-elected Palestinian government Ahmad Awaz. Mr. Jalili said the victory of Palestinians was...

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The Turkish government has announced that nearly 19,000 Syrian refugees who fled violence into neighboring Turkey have now returned home. The Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate said in a statement that some 22,632 Syrian refugees are now living in Turkish camps, down from more than 41,000 refugees who...

The great lady, Hazart-e Fatemeh Zahra (S.A) was the dear daughter of the Prophet, Mohammad (S.W). Some Shiite scholars believed that she was born on 20th of Jamadi-ul-Sani, 5 th A.H. But the majority of Sonnah research scholars declared that her birth had happened 5 years before...

>PARIS/VIENNA (Reuters) - An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Saturday that Iran has some 60 scientists and engineers involved in a concerted and expanding program to develop nuclear weapons under defense ministry auspices. However, diplomats say the National Council of Resistance of Iran has had a spotty record with...

>Hundreds of youths gathered in mainly Shi'ite villages outside the Gulf state's capital Manama, some masked and throwing petrol bombs towards rows of riot police, they said.Many chanted "The people want the fall of the regime!" and "Down, down Hamad!", referring to the ruler, King Hamad. Police...

>ANKARA May 12 (Reuters) - Two Turkish journalists who went missing while reporting on the uprising in Syria two months ago were released on Saturday with Iran's help, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.The release of the pair demonstrated Iran's influence with its ally Syria, which lost Turkey's friendship when...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in...

"Welcome devils of the Zionist media and death to the fest."

RICHMOND, Calif. - Firing its 16-inch (40.64-centimetre) guns in the Arabian Sea, the U.S.S. Iowa shuddered. As the sky turned orange, a blast of heat from the massive guns washed over the battleship. This was the Iowa of the late 1980s, at the end of its active...

Associated Press In this May 20, 2010, file photo, American hikers Shane Bauer, left, Sarah Shourd, center, and Josh Fattal sit at the Esteghlal Hotel in Tehran, Iran. Bauer and Shourd, detained and accused of spying after hiking near the Iraq-Iran border three years ago, married Satu...

Wanting a better life for her only child, Shaghayegh Saeidi's mom came to the United States for a job teaching nursing at Brevard Community College, even though it meant temporarily leaving behind her husband and her then 6-year-old in Iran.

Loading Photo Galleries ... Shaghayegh Saeidi will graduate from Cocoa HIgh this month. When she moved her from Iran in 6th grade, she couldn't speak any Engish and faced challenges adapting to her new surroundings.

Iran coach Carlos Queiroz has named a 19-man squad which includes Osasuna star Javad Nekounam but not injured Europe-based duo Masoud Shojaei and Ashkan Dejagah for the upcoming training camp in Turkey and June 3 World Cup qualifier away to Uzbekistan.

Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia wants an oil price of around $100 a barrel and would like to see global inventories rise before demand picks up in the second half of the year, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi ...

The two freed Iranian pilgrims, who had been kidnapped by Syrian rebel groups, departed Istanbul for Tehran on Saturday evening. The two pilgrims Shah Morad Najafi Taleb and Mohammad Sarhang Fallah were handed over to Iran General Consulate in Istanbul and then departed for Tehran. 22 Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped...

PUTRAJAYA, May 13 (Bernama) -- The deployment of chemical weapons, depitebeing a remote possibility, remains a clear and present danger.Thus, it is imperative to be vigilant to prevent access to such weapons,said the Secretary General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of ChemicalWeapons, Ahmet Uzumcu.He admitted the use...

Lebanese troops exchanged fire late Saturday with a group of young Islamists protesting in Tripoli for the release of a terrorism suspect.In a separate incident in the early hours of Sunday, one man was killed in clashes between...

Russia and China are trying to get North Korea to calm down but the government there continues to be unpredictable and self-destructive. China is trying to rescue North Korea's decrepit economy with a program that allows Chinese companies to set up and run operations there.

Fun House A John Ceepak Mystery by Chris Grabenstein (Pegasus) Get a head start on summer-reading season with Grabenstein’s newest adventure of straight-laced cop John Ceepak and his wisecracking, Springsteen-spouting younger partner Danny Boyle. When reality TV series “Fun House” sets down in the Jersey Shore town of Sea...

LAS VEGAS — Politics always makes for strange bedfellows here, but at SALT it’s weirder. SALT is the hedge fund industry’s annual confab — led by Skybridge Capital’s Anthony Scaramucci since 2009 — where money managers come to seek new fortunes away from the slots. This election season, the conference...

Will any of the 125 million people watching be rooting for the host nation, which tortures its own people and has one of the worst human rights records in Europe?

THE Junior Asia Cup final in Malacca today is set to be a highly entertaining affair, as Malaysia look for their first ever title, while Pakistan are aiming for their fourth.

Lebanese troops exchanged fire late on Saturday with a group of young Islamists protesting in Tripoli for the release of a terrorism suspect.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's president will meet party leaders on Sunday in a final bid to cobble together a coalition and avert a repeat election, but the veteran politician's effort looked set to fail because of deep splits over an EU/IMF rescue plan. Related Stories Hungarian far-right protests against govt...

MICHIGAN CITY — Thinking globally but acting locally is an approach that a service project through the Safe Harbor after school program at Edgewood Elementary is taking to reflect the diversity of the community. On Friday, students learned a little more about Mexican culture at a Cinco de Mayo celebration,...

SPEAKING THURSDAY at the Library of Congress, “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau highlighted an intriguing dynamic of satire: The more the intended target reacts, he said, the more its practitioner gains the advantage. If the victim flinches or returns fire at a cartoon, the illustration only gains in power. Read full...

Two Turkish journalists who were detained for two months in Syria by Russia backed illegal Alwite regime are on their way to Tehran following mediation by Iran, the Turkish foreign minister has announced.

BARSTOW • A block-long stretch of road near where Seaman Apprentice Brian Clinefelter once lived was renamed in his honor Saturday, nearly 25 years after his death when his warship was attacked in the Persian Gulf. Clinefelter had just finished his...

World powers will tomorrow be closely following Iran’s first talks with the UN nuclear agency in three months, for clues on whether Tehran means business at an upcoming crunch meeting in Baghdad.

Commodity prices were mostly lower this week on renewed eurozone debt worries following political upheaval in Greece and France, and following disappointing economic data from China, traders said.

An exiled Iranian opposition group said yesterday that Iran has some 60 scientists and engineers involved in a concerted and expanding programme to develop nuclear weapons under defence ministry auspices.

A third of the world's population is carrying tuberculosis, and the disease could become incurable if governments fail to act, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. Lack of funding for public health programmes, the sale of inaccurate blood tests and the misuse of drugs, particularly in the private health...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that war is not essential to achieve the "destruction" of Israel if countries "cut ties with the Zionists and give them dirty looks, it will spell the end".

Here, in a nutshell, is the picture of the barbarian nation that we think we can develop. We fail to understand they don’t hate us in particular. They hate each other. The tribe over the next hilltop is an outsider, an enemy.

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Violence in Syria cost at least 15 lives on Saturday as a UN force to oversee a truce neared half its planned strength, monitors said.

Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement.

Algerian athlete Youssef Reguigi has become the winner in all stages of the international bicycle tour of Azerbaijan. For his part, Gennady Tatarinov, 21-year-old representative of the Russian team "Katyusha" won the fourth stage of this international cycling tour dedicated to the 89th anniversary of Heydar Aliyev in Ismayilli today.

Christopher Doyon lives in Canada on the run from the FBI and is one of the few Anonymous members whose real name is publicly known

Years after saying Israel should be "wiped off" the map, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that there is no need to take up arms against his nation's foe, state news reported.

Christopher Doyon remembers first “meeting” Libyan blogger Mohammed Nabbous in an Internet Relay Chat room, a kind of virtual private conference room where Anonymous partisans discuss and plan their operations — in this case the overthrow of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.

Don't look now, but one of the biggest and most famous industries in the world, nuclear power, once seen as the lynchpin of the future, is reeling yet again after huge political setbacks in Japan and France. Last year's disaster at Fukushima is having an even bigger effect than...

Sepahan football club has managed to clinch the title for Iran's Professional League (IPL) for the third consecutive season despite being held to a goalless draw with Mes Sarcheshmeh.

Facing Mirrors by Negar Azarbayjani has won the Translation 2012 Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the The Seattle Transgender Film Festival. The first narrative film from Iran to feature a transgender main character, Azarbayjani's FACING MIRRORS is a story of an unlikely and daring friendship that develops despite...

Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi's new song, "Naghi," contains the perfect ingredients for controversy. The lyrics include joking references to Naghi, the 10th imam of the Shi'ites; a penis; Viagra; and the breasts of an Iranian actress. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL

The Iranian rial hovered around 15,800 against the dollar on Iran's unofficial black market on Saturday, showing a 4.4 percent decline compared with 16,500 rials on Thursday.

The timing of President Obama’s recent trip to Afghanistan –coinciding with the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s killing – may have been driven by election politics, but its purpose went beyond that.

The Dubai Police Anti-Crime Department arrested 286 suspects under the Security Islands Programme during the first quarter of the year.

DAMASCUS: Violence in Syria cost at least 10 lives on Saturday as a UN force to oversee a truce neared half its planned strength, monitors said.

The European Union observer mission Saturday called Algeria's elections an important step toward reform, even as the opposition denounced the overwhelming win by government parties as resulting from fraud.

Firing its 16-inch guns in the Arabian Sea, the U.S.S. Iowa shuddered. As the sky turned orange, a blast of heat from the massive guns washed over the battleship. This was the Iowa of the late 1980s, at the end of its active duty as it escorted reflagged...

A Kenyan official says a German man is sought for questioning about the activities of an al-Qaida-linked militia group.

In a country where the news is typically bad, if not catastrophic, many people in Haiti look at the past year under a musician-turned-president with guarded surprise.

Iran's foreign minister hailed Francois Hollande's election as French president, voicing hope it can boost bilateral ties, as he met visiting former French socialist premier Michel Rocard.

TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential election, which was held on March 4, 2012, the Kremlin said in a statement on Saturday.

Togo's opposition leader is threatening to boycott an election slated for October if the president doesn't seek consensus on electoral reforms.

Benjamin Netanyahu, ever the master maneuverer, has done it again. Just moments before the Israeli Parliament was to ratify the call for new elections, the Kadima Party announced that it had completed negotiations with the Prime Minister and would join the government producing Israel's largest governing coalition in history...

The government of Iraq's Kurdish region fired back on Saturday over allegations by Iranian diplomats and officials that Kurdistan was playing host to Israeli intelligence.

A video posted online in the name of a shadowy militant group late Friday claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Syrian capital this week that killed 55 people.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated Vladimir Putin on officially taking office as President of the Russian Federation.

TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) – In a meeting in Ashkhabad late on Friday, officials from the Islamic Republic and Turkmenistan signed a cooperation agreement on campaign against illicit drugs.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels fought the army in northern Syria on Saturday, activists said, and Syrian dissidents abroad gathered to try to unify and project themselves as a credible alternative to President Bashar al-Assad.

PAIR reported missing in early March and were not heard from until last weekend when they made brief calls to their families from prison.

The United States said Friday it was partially resuming sales of military supplies to Gulf Arab ally Bahrain after having frozen most shipments last year amid a bloody crackdown on protests.

Iran's Energy Minister Majid Namjou says the Iranian government plans to turn the country into a center for the transit of electricity in the region.

Doha, May 12 : Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell blamed jet lag for his loss to resurgent American star Justin Gatlin after he conceded an early-race lead to finish second in the 100 metres at the season-opening Diamond League that started here Friday.

��Tom Verner performs magic in a refugee camp on the border between Iran and Afghanistan. / Courtesy Tom Verner and Janet Fredericks A fundraiser for Magicians Without Borders will be hosted Sunday in Essex by the Mountain Mamas of Jericho, Underhill and beyond.

Forest Service set to make final call on controversial ski area project By Bob Berwyn SUMMIT COUNTY — Federal agencies are on track to release a final environmental study for a controversial ski area expansion at Breckenridge sometime in June, according to White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams. Click...

Foreign Ministers of the SCO, who met here ahead of next month's summit, said the grouping should create a bigger role for observers and dialogue partners within the SCO framework, a press release issued at the end their meeting in Beijing on Friday said.

Q&A: Adaptability a valuable asset Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:02 p.m., Friday, May 11, 2012 Niloufar Molavi has spent 21 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers en route to her current position as U.S. energy...

Washington, May 12 : The United States will partially resume the sale of military supplies to Bahrain following its suspension last year after the Arab state cracked down on human rights protesters.

Bill to be introduced next week By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — There’s nothing wrong with a good slice of pizza every now and then, but nutrition advocates draw the line at defining the popular Italian food as a vegetable. But that’s exactly what Congress did last November, when they...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Among Vladimir Putin's first acts now that he's back in Russia's top job was to cancel a date with President Barack Obama. Both nations insist Putin's no-show at a high-profile economic gathering tailored for his attendance is not a snub.

A new ranking of international universities and higher education systems has been compiled to give more insight into the strength of HE in different nations. Higher education is a dynamo for economic growth, powering the supply of high-level skills and the technological advances for improving productivity and opening up new...

WASHINGTON: The United States has said it is partially resuming sales of military supplies to Gulf Arab ally Bahrain after having frozen most shipments last year amid a bloody crackdown on protests.