News Archive - 9 June 2012

A senior Iranian commander says the United States seeks to destabilize Syria in an attempt to safeguard Israel’s interests in the Middle East. “By using the assistance of some of the regional countries and one of Syria’s Muslim neighbors and dispatching armed mercenaries and terrorists, they (the Americans) intend to...

Deputy IRI Foreign Minister in Administrative Affairs in a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko submitted an invitation by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for President Viktor Yanukovych to attend NAM summit in Tehran in September. Behrouz Kamalvandi in the meeting discussed and exchanged views on ways of expanding ties and...

Children who get several CT scans have a slightly higher chance of brain cancer and leukemia in later life, though the risk is still small and probably outweighed by the need to get the test, researchers reported. The use of CT scans has risen rapidly since they were introduced 30...

Ceremonies commemorating the International Day of Handicrafts kicked off in Tehran on Saturday in the presence of First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi. Some 31 top Iranian artists will be awarded during the event which is taking place at Tehran’s permanent International Fairgrounds. The International Expert–Export Festival and Exhibition of the...

US Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Peter Agra said on Saturday that US sanctions on Iran have failed and majority of American scientists support Iranian peaceful nuclear program, according to IRNA. Accompanied by Norman Neureiter, Acting Director of US Center for Science, Technology, Professor Agra have come to Iran at the...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov says Iran could play a constructive role in establishing an international contact group for resolving the crisis in Syria. Gatilov said on Friday that Tehran "has a full right" to participate in the process, adding that, "Iran's participation could play a constructive role in...

Pakistani protesters took to the streets in the northwestern city of Peshawar to condemn the US assassination drone attacks in the country’s tribal areas. Protesters gathered on Saturday, calling for an end to what they call the US violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and to Washington’s meddling in the country’s internal...

At least six French soldiers have been killed and six others injured in a blast in eastern Afghanistan's Kapisa Province, Afghan police officials say. The causalities come after a bomber targeted a NATO convoy in Nijrab district in Kapisa Province. However, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a statement...

Saudi-backed Bahraini troops launched fresh attacks on protest rallies across the Persian Gulf state, wounding several people, witnesses say. The security forces also fired tear gas and bird shot to disperse protestors chanting "Down Hamad." "The people want to overthrow the regime” and "We have the right to choose...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has notified relevant Iranian authorities of a law that tasks them with bringing to light cases of human rights violation by the United States and Britain. The legislation, which was earlier passed by the Majlis (parliament) and approved by Iran's Guardian Council (GC), aims to inform the...

Thousands of Egyptian protesters have held rallies in the capital Cairo against former premier Ahmed Shafiq, demanding that the Mubarak era remnant be barred from running for the run-off presidential election. The demonstrators gathered in the iconic Tahrir Square after Friday prayers, expressing opposition to the ruling of another Mubarak...

The 70th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, one of history's most important battles, has come and gone, with little attention paid. The anniversary, June 4-7, took place while Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was in the midst of a very important trip to the Asia Pacific region which also...

>BEIRUT (Reuters) - Eighteen people, including 12 women and children, were killed overnight by shelling in the Syrian town of Deraa, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted 15 months ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. Fighting was also reported in Damascus, Homs and other...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has notified relevant Iranian authorities of a law that tasks them with bringing to light cases of human rights violation by the United States and Britain. To this end, Iran has allocated an annual amount of USD 20 million and designated a working group, superintended by Iran’s...

>MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia amplified its call for an international meeting on Syria on Saturday, saying sanctions or military intervention would "only aggravate the already difficult atmosphere". "Our logic is that it is not necessary now to apply additional pressure, to introduce sanctions or use the threat of force," Deputy...

New Delhi, June 10 (ANI): Members of an Internet group 'Anonymous' have organized an 'Occupy' campaign in 16 cities in India against Internet censorship in the country.

The president who made a stirring declaration about internet freedom authorised a wave of cyber-attacks on Iran.

Security expert Eugene Kaspersky says a global effort can stop computer warfare.

Tehran pumped out a report Early Sunday June 10 accusing Syrian rebels of arming themselves with chemical weapons originating in Libya and acquiring training in their use from an unknown source in their use.

(MENAFN - Arab News) Qatar Airways has expanded passenger services to Iraq with the launch of its second destination in the country - to Baghdad. The airline is operating four-flights-a-week ...

Champion amateur boxer Frank O'Donnell of Glasgow, Scotland, will be the featured speaker at a luncheon Tuesday marking the 60th anniversary of Rosary Hall, a treatment center for drug and alcohol addiction.

(MENAFN - Arab News) The best thing that can be said about the latest press conference held by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is that this included an invitation to negotiate over Assad's ...

OPEC ministers gather this week in Vienna to review cartel's oil output levels against the backdrop of a weak global economy, fragile demand, oversupply and simmering Iran tensions. The Organization of ...

The ever-stricter U.S. sanctions on Iran are intended to prevent the production of nuclear weapons, not diapers. But Redmond entrepreneur Fred Harrington, who has a U.S. Treasury license to export to Iran on humanitarian grounds, has still seen business plummet.

Thousands of people, many waving small U.S. flags and snapping photos, cheered as the 887-foot-long World War II battleship USS Iowa glided by, saluted with sprays of water from the city's fireboats and escorted by one of the city's tall-masted wooden ships. | PHOTOS

SINGAPORE: Through a combination of somewhat fortuitous factors, the imminent imposition of Western sanctions on Iran is shaping up as a bit of a non-event for Asian crude buyers.

Russia has growing concerns about the conflict in Syria, but will continue to oppose the outside use of force, its foreign minister said.

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Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean wasted no time comparing GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican Party in general to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the progressive Netroots Nation 2012 conference Saturday in Providence, R.I.

Pro-regime forces killed 83 civilians throughout Syria on Saturday, including women and children among 20 dead in the flashpoint town of Daraa, a watchdog group said.

The man who invented the World Wide Web says that the technology is all about being social, so people need to use it to stretch themselves.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government is concerned some fellow OPEC member countries are violating their quotas by producing too much oil. Chavez says Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez will bring up those concerns at next week's OPEC meeting in

Pro-regime forces killed 83 civilians throughout Syria on Saturday, including women and children among 20 dead in the flashpoint town of Daraa, a watchdog group said.

Political Machiavellianism is dangerous, but when expanded to journalism, it is amoral and in denial of basic humanitarian ethics. Journalism as a professional ideology is an identity with claims to an exclusive role and status in society.

Each timethe residents and their leadership is asked to compromise their needs so that the issue is not derailed, and every time the government of Iraq doesn’t live up to their side of thebargain and the US and UN keep silence.

“The FTO list is an important tool in combating terrorism, but its designations must stand to reason.

Anytime Fitness co-founders Chuck Runyon and Dave Mortensen on “Secret Millionaire.”

T HE stories from survivors of the shocking massacres in Qubair, Houla and Homs open the eyes of the world to an almost unimaginable hell. The slaughter of innocent people, many of them women and children, reveals a barbaric Syrian regime which will stop at nothing to maintain its position.

SYRIA risks descending into civil war as international efforts to find a negotiated solution are increasingly outpaced by the horrors on the ground.

The Facebook Revolution in the Arab world hasn’t been able to carry out the hard work of democracy.

Washington, June 9: Five days before the widest bilateral exchange between India and the US that takes place annually, New Delhi and Washington have agreed on the broad contours of how the two sides will deal with the contentious issue of Iran.

Just after 3 p.m. Saturday, the battleship Iowa got underway on its final, 3.4 nautical mile journey through Los Angeles Harbor on its way to becoming a floating museum.

Man and nature come together in art works by Iranian artists who look beyond the superficial.

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has once again expressed his unyielding intention to restart the nation's suspended nuclear reactors, saying society "won't function" without nuclear power. At a press conference held Friday, Noda said he has concluded that the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors should be restarted at...

Netanyahu reportedly did not respond when the experts warned the construction of 850 apartments he pledged could spark violence.

Russia will continue to oppose military intervention in Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says, amid fresh reports of violence across the country.

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia pumped 9.8mn bpd of crude oil in May, cutting output by 300,000 bpd from the month before, an industry source said yesterday. The kingdom’s oil production was 10.1mn bpd in April, its highest for more than 30 years, as it bid to meet...

Rebels holding Lebanese Shia pilgrims abducted last month in Syria said they will free them when a “civil state” sees the day in Syria but also left the door open to negotiations for their release, Al Jazeera television reported yesterday.

Army shelling and gunfire killed at least 29 civilians in protest towns yesterday, a watchdog said, as Russia pushed its idea of an international conference including Iran to end the bloodshed in Syria.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has assigned two federal prosecutors to lead investigations into recent leaks of classified government information. The two attorneys, Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland will be directing...

The commodity market stabilized last week amid expectations central banks would join hands in implementing accommodative policies to bolster economic recovery. On Friday, oil and gold prices initially slipped further but then rebounded as speculations loomed for a Spanish bailout.

"The Iraqis government is on good terms with Syria and tries to respect the Iranian desire to keep the Syrian Shia dictatorship in power." I love Strategy Page and read it almost daily, but this is a pretty big error and degrades the credibility of Strategy Page. Just FYI.

Eighteen people, including 12 women and children, were killed overnight by shelling in Syria.

After days of international shuttling on what to do with the troubling situation in Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Saturday his country will never agree to foreign intervention. Despite warnings of Syria spiraling into a civil war, Russian Fore...

JACKSON— The Mississippi attorney general's office argued Friday that the state Supreme Court should not grant a stay of execution for an inmate scheduled to die by injection Tuesday.

In the early months of 1979, Islamic revolutionaries deposed Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran. The dictator, a close ally of the United States, fled the country. Ayatollah Khomeini's forces began violent purges of the government.

With dozens more Syrian civilians killed Saturday as dictator Bashar al-Assad tries to crush dissent, Canada has again denounced the regime in Damascus.

SPRINGFIELD -- Young people adopted the word “awesome” a few years ago as a description of everything from a win on athletic fields to a great burger. The true meaning of being remarkable, amazing, humbling or awe-inspiring was demonstrated at the latest initiative of Springfield School District and the Springfield...

Madrid/Brussels (dpa) - Spain is only asking for "financial help" from eurozone partners, rather than for a bailout, Economics Minister Luis De Guindos insisted on Saturday."It is a financial help, it has nothing to do with a bailout, nothing at all," de Guindos said in a news conference in...

FBI investigations are looking into if the White House had anything to do with leaking national security information.

In wide-ranging interview, Former ambassador Richard Williamson says U.S. Republican candidate will make military threats against Tehran credible, arm Syria's rebels, and visit Israel before going anywhere else.

Lack of progress in talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency is disappointing and it shows Tehran’s continued failure to abide by its commitment to the UN nuclear watchdog, a US envoy said yesterday.

Words the government uses to spy on you

Trade restrictions over nuclear programme are hurting local farmers and could even affect an age-old practice.

The 12th summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was held in China’s capital city, Beijing, on June 6-7.

It's clockwork every four years. When the slow season arrives on the campaign trail -- with the candidates focused on fundraising, and the voters more interested in blockbusters and the beach -- the endless speculation about the vice presidential pick begins.

Russia says it's is not against Assad’s departure if... MOSCOW: Russia will not oppose the departure of Syria’s President Bashar Assad if that is the result of a dialogue among Syrians themselves and is not imposed from outside, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.

People in Israel, Syria and Iran all witnessed the same spiral UFO careening through the night sky Thursday, prompting a flurry of speculation about its origins. There are several videos of the strange . . .

Brussels (dpa) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will not provide financial contributions to a rescue package for Spanish banks that could reach 100 billion euros (125 billion dollars), eurozone finance ministers said Saturday.In a statement, the Eurogroup confirmed that "up to 100 billion euros in total" would be...

An Iranian lawmaker has lashed out at insistence of International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano to visit Iran's military site in Parchin, saying that “Western spies” will never be allowed to visit the military sites.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Lack of progress in talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency is disappointing and it shows Tehran's continued failure to abide by its commitment to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, a U.S. envoy said on Saturday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday that Moscow's concern about Syria's conflict is growing but that Russia will continue to oppose the outside use of force.

A criminal investigation into leaks of classified material begins in Washington DC.

TEHRAN, June 9 (MNA) – MP Esmail Kosari seems quite confident that the next round of talks between Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) in Moscow will produce no positive results because the three Western countries on the group are...

Army shelling and gunfire killed at least 28 civilians in protest towns on Saturday, a watchdog said, as Russia pushed its idea of an international conference including Iran to end the bloodshed in Syria.

Lavrov says Syrian situation becoming 'more alarming,' but Russia's position unchanged

PUTRAJAYA, June 9 (Bernama) -- Despite facing strong opponents from Iran andJapan, R. Puvaneswaran is confident that the national elite team will give theirbest performance at 11th Asian Karate Championship, from July 14-17 inUzbekistan.The acting national chief coach said he hopes for a gold medal from any ofthe ten...

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two top federal prosecutors to lead criminal investigations into the recent leak of U.S. classified intelligence information, acting on a pledge Friday from President Barack Obama that his administration will not permit the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive materials. The prosecutors – U.

>The hostages said in the video they were in good health and being treated well."The guests will be released by the Syrian civil state when their case is reviewed by a new democratic parliament," the rebels said in a written statement on the video."But given the current conditions...

Using the publicity as a tool for good, Team O'Neill has participated in a Belmont Stakes prostate cancer run. With that, sports events and facilities across the country are currently incorporating the 2012 Belmont Stakes hype into summer events and parties. Altogether, there are several unique aspects to festivities held...

2001: Iranian president Mohammed Khatami wins re-election with a landslide 75 per cent of the vote. The mandate points toward the people's unmistakable demand that conservative clerics must loosen their grip on Iran.

MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Islamic Republic’s Army has “100 percent control” of the country’s airspace, a senior Iranian commander said.

US Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed prosecutors to lead two criminal investigations of high-profile leaks of classified national security information to the media.

TEHRAN, June 9 (MNA) – The Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has said that Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog will continue the talks on Iran’s nuclear program.

Persian classical singer Parissa rehearsed with Hamnavazan (including barbat player Hossein Behroozinia) at North Vancouver’s Nava Arts Centre in May to prepare for North American tour.

Vienna, June 9 (ANI): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that it had failed to reach an agreement with Iran on gaining access to suspected atomic research sites.

India's bureaucrats, politicians, and companies threaten to corrode the rights of India's internet users.

On Wednesday he was drafted by the Padres, on Thursday he was named a finalist for the top honor in college baseball and on Friday Goose Kallunki was named the District VIII Player of the Year…

Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reaffirmed Tehran’s determination to work with the UN supervisory body to 'remove any ambiguities' regarding its nuclear energy program, Press TV reports.

As I wrote in the recent post, The Joy and Burden of Motherhood , “The greatest joy of motherhood is seen as the sheer gift of bringing a life into this world and helping to shape them from the moment of birth and then to watch them grow into ...

An American barred from a U.S.-bound flight from Costa Rica was reunited with family and friends Thursday evening after flying to Mexico, then walking across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday assigned two U.S. attorneys to lead separate criminal investigations into recent media disclosures of national security secrets, saying they were authorized to "follow all appropriate investigative leads within the executive and legislative branches of government."