News Archive - 12 August 2012

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>* Asian imports of Iran oil may edge up, but will level by year-end* Japan, China, India and South Korea buy most of Iran's oil exports* Iran exports at risk due to possible fresh sanctionsBy Osamu Tsukimori and Chen AizhuTOKYO/BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Asia's major crude buyers are finding...

>* Villages were worst affected* People in need of shelter, foodBy Yeganeh TorbatiDUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope on Monday with thousands injured by a pair of powerful earthquakes that killed nearly 300 people and wrecked scores of villages.Thousands huddled in makeshift...

>* Quakes were 6.4 and 6.3 in magnitude* 16,000 people given emergency shelterBy Yeganeh TorbatiDUBAI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday and rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300...

>* Reports come amid Israeli debate over whether to go to war* Obama has called for more time for diplomacy with TehranBy Dan WilliamsJERUSALEM, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Iran has stepped up work to develop a nuclear warhead, Israeli newspapers said on Sunday, citing officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...

The U.S. guided missile destroyer is left with a gaping hole after it collides with an oil tanker.

Movie critic Drew McWeeny, who claims to have read the film's script, criticizes the plot which includes four different versions of the titular cyborg.

Tehran has said it is concentrating on relief efforts after two quakes that devastated villages in Iran's northwest. Officials said there were believed to be no more survivors beneath the rubble.

As the death toll from powerful twin earthquakes in northwestern Iran rose Sunday to more than 250, with entire villages leveled, rescuers called off searches for survivors and turned their attention to caring for the 16,000 people left homeless.

With resume fraud growing, background checks are critical to hiring managers.

TEHRAN, Aug 13 (Bernama) -- Economic cooperation among the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states will greatly restrict the impact of sanctions, economic expert Farhad Ghaffari said here on Sunday.

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>LONDON Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russia's supremacy on the wrestling mat survived an onslaught from Japan and Iran at the London Olympics and could face an even stronger challenge in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The Russians narrowly held on to their traditional place at the top of the medal...

>SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude rose above $114 per barrel to a more than three-month high on Monday on renewed fears of supply disruption as Israel's latest comments on stopping Iran from proceeding with a disputed nuclear programme stoked tension in the region. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday...

>* Regulators alleged bank hid transactions tied to Iran* Bank prepares hearing to defend New York license WednesdayBy Carrick MollenkampAug 12 (Reuters) - Standard Chartered Plc and New York state regulators have discussed a settlement amount to resolve an inquiry into whether the British bank's records improperly hid transactions tied...

The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is set to expel Syria from its congregation in an expression of the pan-Islamic body's opposition to the Assad regime’s failure to end the bloodshed in his country.

It's been a scorching summer. The out of control heat is putting a strain on everything, including livestock numbers and gas prices across the country.

SOUTHAVEN — Local individuals are joining up with an Israeli organization stationed in Jerusalem, Israel, called Emergency Volunteer Project (EVP) which recruits volunteers who are trained for the purpose of helping that country in a time of emergency.

A B.C. woman who won a personal exemption from Canada's ban on doctor-assisted suicide will keep that right as the case makes its way through the province's Appeal Court.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian relief workers saved more than 200 people from the rubble of dozens of villages destroyed when two powerful earthquakes struck Saturday in a wide area north of the city of Tabriz, an Iranian official said on Sunday.

Oil hovers above $93 on China stimulus hopes Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 4:27 a.m., Thursday, August 9, 2012 The price of oil hovered above $93 a barrel Thursday as a drop in Chinese...

LONDON — Freestyle wrestler Jordan Burroughs came to the Olympics with two objectives: to become the champion in the 163-pound weight class and to restore Team USA to what he considered its rightful place atop the gold-medal list.

Iran yesterday wrapped up rescue operations in hundreds of villages flattened by twin earthquakes the day before in its northwest, as officials gave a new toll of 227 dead and 1,380 injured.

In just seven minutes, Michel Samaha got my book un-banned after seven years on Lebanon's blacklist. Even Rafiq Hariri, when he was Prime Minister couldn't get Pity The Nation into Beirut's book shops. "There is a sentence about a Syrian tank guarding a hashish field in the Bekaa Valley," he...

Final tests are being made of a public warning system which would send a text message to Israelis in the event of an imminent missile attack by Iran or Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.

The daytime closure is to allow ongoing brush clearing and drainage work along the levee in this area.

"This normally dour city, a place of weepy grey skies and chilly demeanour, has been transformed into an enclave of smiling Olympic volunteers, efficient transit systems and joyful crowds... And the favourite pre-Games activity of griping about the Olympics has been replaced by basking in the Olympics." Traci Watson,...

Earthquakes players Chris Wondolowski and Steven Beitashour earned call-ups from the U.S. national team for its friendly against Mexico on Wednesday in Mexico City.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Residents of the zone in northwestern Iran hit by powerful twin earthquakes described moments of terror and panic with birds crowing loudly in warning seconds before the ground shook.

VARZAQAN, Iran: Iran on Sunday stepped up relief operations in shattered villages in its northeast after saying rescue operations were completed following a double earthquake which cost 227 lives and injured 1,380 people.

A two alarm fire has displaced a family of ten residents from their Northside home.

Iraq’s crude-oil production has risen to 3.2 million barrels a day and will increase as planned to 3.4 million barrels a day by year’s end Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani said.

Turkish Republican People's Party parliamentarian has been kidnapped by members of militant group the Kurdistan Worker's Party, Reuters reports, in another indication of the unrest that has gripped Turkey in recent months.

>Bahrain, a U.S. ally which hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, has been in turmoil since pro-democracy protests led by its Shi'ite majority erupted last year after revolts in Egypt and Tunisia.Bahrain asked Saudi Arabia to send forces to help it quell the protests last year. Shi'ite...

TABRIZ, Iran, Aug. 12 (MNA) - Local officials said on Sunday that bout 300 people have died and more than 2000 have been injured in two successive earthquakes that hit the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan on Saturday afternoon.

Campaigning together, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are painting the upcoming presidential contest as a stark choice between two competing visions of economic vitality.

A moped rider is at UMC Trauma in critical condition.

The U.S. Olympic wrestling team made the trip to London with high hopes of several medals, and with one man-Jordan Burroughs-expected to have a good shot at gold.

Detection tools released this week for the latest descendant of the Stuxnet malware will not be effective for long.

The Eitan will be returning to service following a lengthy break, after one crashed in January; craft able to stay 36 hours in the air, and carry cargo of up to 1 ton.

Haaretz, Israeli officials, the US and other Western ones know Iran has no nuclear weapons program. It likely has no intention of pursuing one. It abhors them and wants a nuclear-free Middle East."

A suspect in St. James assault last weekend that left a man in critical condition has been apprehend, Winnipeg police said Sunday.

Court hands out two-year sentence for making insulting comments on website

A roof collapse at a cottage in Ontario's Muskoka area has left one person dead.

Ottawa police are asking for the public's help to find a man who went missing at a family function in the ByWard Market on Saturday night.

Overcrowded hospitals in northwestern Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday and rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people.

Tea party activists in Georgia helped kill a proposed sales tax increase that would have raised billions of dollars for transportation projects. In Pennsylvania, tea partyers pushed to have taxpayers send public school...

BAHRAIN Aug 12 — A Bahraini court has sentenced a man to two years in prison for making insulting comments about one of the Prophet Mohammad's wives, newspapers reported today, the latest such case In the Gulf highlighting sectarian tension in the region. The daily al-Wasat reported that a man...

Syria's President Bashar Assad enjoys the support of his people and can continue to count on his ally Iran as he battles an armed rebellion in his country, a senior Iranian official is quoted as saying.

Rescuers ended the search on Sunday for survivors of twin earthquakes in northwestern Iran that killed at least 250 people and injured more than 2,600 a day earlier, state television reported.

ALEPPO, Syria, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad need the protection of no-fly zones and safe havens patrolled by foreign forces near the borders with Jordan and Turkey, a Syrian opposition leader said.

Head of Iran’s Charity Foundation for Special Diseases has warned the UN about the negative impact of illegal US-EU sanctions on the Iranian patients suffering from refractory diseases.

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has remembered the victims of Iran's violent quake as well as those impacted by unusually heavy rains in the Philippines and China. The pope in his traditional Sunday Angelus prayer on Sunday expressed solidarity to those suffering in the aftermaths of "these devastating...

QUETTA: At least three people, including two Pakistani nationals and an Iranian security personnel, were killed in an exchange of fire at the Pak-Iran border in Chaghai district, on Saturday.

A number of historical monuments have been damaged after two powerful earthquakes rocked the cities of Ahar and Varzaqan in northwest Iran.

Israel’s prime minister says the threat from Iran dwarfs all others the Jewish state faces.

London 2012 - Silver medalist Navab Nasirshelal of Islamic Republic of Iran, gold medalist Oleksiy Torokhtiy of Ukraine and bronze medalist Bartlomiej Wojciech Bonk of Poland pose on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Men's 105kg Weightlifting on Day 10 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at ExCeL...

A surprise surge in gasoline prices is taking some of the fun out of summer. The national average for a gallon of gas at the pump has climbed to $3.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of schoolgirl Tia Sharp have charged her grandmother's partner with murder. Stuart Hazell will appear in court tomorrow accused of killing the 12-year-old.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday expressed solidarity with the victims of natural disasters in Iran, the Philippines and China which have claimed hundreds of lives.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of schoolgirl Tia Sharp have charged her grandmother's partner with murder. Stuart Hazell will appear in court tomorrow accused of killing the 12-year-old.

RAMALLAH, August 12, 2012 (WAFA) – The prime headline in al-Quds Arabic newspaper Sunday highlighted statements by Presidential secretary Tayyeb Abdul Rahim supporting the Egyptian procedures against terrorist attacks, including closing tunnels connecting Egypt with the Gaza Strip.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Gunmen detonated back-to-back roadside bombs and clashed with police in central Damascus Saturday in attacks that caused no damage but highlighted the ability of rebels to breach the intense security near President Bashar

The Bank of Israel Governor said the bank was preparing for an economic crisis after a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

(MENAFN - Jordan Times) Does the move by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad to hand over control of six Kurdish-dominated towns in the north to the Kurds set the ground for the eventual ...

(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Oil prices have been rising for nearly three months despite healthy supply levels due to geopolitical risk concerns, local supply dynamics and less pessimism ...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, personnel examine the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter after it was damaged in a collision with the Panamanian flagged, Japanese-owned bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan police officer killed at least 10 of his fellow officers on Saturday, a day after six U.

Overall damage still being evaluated; collision not combat related, says U.S. Navy.