News Archive - 8 October 2012

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>* IMF cuts global growth forecast, sees soft landing in China* Coming up: ECB chief Mario Draghi speaks at 0730 GMTBy Ramya VenugopalSINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Brent crude futures rose towards $113 a barrel on Tuesday after two days of losses, with supply fears due to escalating tensions in...

>Estimates of how quickly Iran could enrich its uranium to the fissile level required for bombs are closely watched as they may give an indication of how much time its foes believe they have to prevent it obtaining nuclear weapons, if and when it decided to do so.Iran says...

>DUBAI (Reuters) - A battle of wills between Iran's government and foreign exchange traders may end with authorities taking over all legal trade in the rial, leaving many Iranians to seek hard currency illegally in a poorly supplied black market. This arrangement would probably let the economy limp on in...

>LEXINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a sweeping critique on Monday of President Barack Obama's handling of threats in the Middle East, saying Obama's lack of leadership had made the volatile region more dangerous. In what his campaign called a major foreign policy address, Romney called...

>* Iranian experts "repel" cyber threat to offshore platforms* Tehran hard-pressed by Western sanctions over nuclear workBy Yeganeh TorbatiDUBAI, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Iran derided Israel's air defences as feeble on Monday, citing a drone incursion into its arch-foe's airspace, but did not say it had sent the aircraft shot...

>LONDON (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. has ended a longstanding sales partnership with ZTE Corp after an internal investigation into allegations that the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker sold Cisco networking gear to Iran. Cisco's probe followed stories by Reuters in March and April that documented how Shenzhen, China-based ZTE had...

If only. If only there were magic carpets and genies. Why that messy Middle East would surely bend to a President Mitt Romney's will. With just one wave of his magic wand the good governor's foreign policy address at VMI was a slapdash jaunt into "make believe" foreign policy...

As I sat in traffic for two hours trying to get onto Johns Island Oct. 5 after work, I chuckled at the notion pushed by the Coastal Conservation League that completing I-526 will only save me 36 more seconds.

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Hugo Chavez comfortably won re-election to his third six-year term as Veneuzuela's president Monday. Shortly after his first election, he said Castro's Cuba was the political system he wanted to emulate. He also has close ties with Iran.

After 52 years, it’s time to junk the tired format. Jim Lehrer has been a thoughtful and insightful broadcast journalist on public television for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for moderating intelligent discussion.

Mitt Romney blamed President Obama solely Monday for potential defense cuts that Republicans in Congress agreed to, and left the misimpression that Obama has ignored free-trade initiatives.

Monday, 8 October 2012, New York: Qatar Airways is to join one world®, adding one of the world’s fastest growing and most highly rated airlines to the world’s leading quality airline alliance.

Expedition 33 continues with commander Suni Williams, FE-4 Yuriy Malenchenko and FE-6 Aki Hoshide. The European cargo ship ATV-3 'Edoardo Amaldi' undocked at 2144 UTC on Sep 28 and was deorbited over the Pacific at 2342 UTC on Oct 2, with loss of signal at 0125 UTC on Oct 3.

"Death to America" has been the rallying cry of Iran's Islamic Revolution since the late 70s, and images of Iranian radicals chanting the regime's favorite slogan have made a lasting impression in American minds.

Buoyed by better poll numbers and a debate triumph, White House challenger Mitt Romney sought to build momentum by vowing to restore strong US leadership in the Middle East.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticised Barack Obama's handling of threats in the Middle East, saying the incumbent president's lack of leadership has made the region more dangerous place than it was when he took office nearly four years ago.

October 09, 2012 7:23 AM LOS ANGELES (AFP) - French blockbuster Les Intouchables and Austrian Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner Love are hot tips for best foreign language Oscar, from a long-list of candidates published on Monday.

The long-haul arm of budget carrier AirAsia said Monday it would suspend operations to Iran, citing currency "volatility" as the carrier mounts new profitable destinations across the Asia-Pacific.

Turkish troops retaliated against cross-border shelling from Syria for the sixth day in a row yesterday. Related Stories Stage set for Kuwait's second election in a year Saudis line up against Syria's Assad Iran 'successfully blocks cyberattack on the computer network' Israeli forces and Gaza militants exchange fire Turkish troops...

Shopping in a US department store? Surveillance cameras may be watching, and not because you might be a shoplifter.

A movie about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis probably doesn't sound like it would be a laugh riot - or should be - but that's just one of the many ways in which "Argo" is a glorious, gripping surprise.

(AP Photo/The New Yorker Festival, Todd France). This Oct. 7, 2012 photo released by The New Yorker Festival shows Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series "Girls," during The New Yorker Festival in New York.

Levon Haftvan plays the eponymous sociopathic schlub in writer-director Majid Barzegar's darkly comic Iranian drama. read more

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" star Mila Kunis may have just been named the title of " Sexiest Woman Alive " from Esquire , but she's concerned with a lot more than maintaining a pretty face this election season. In an interview with the publication about a host of different topics, the...

In the address at the Virginia Military Institute, Romney argued that Obama is failing to provide the global leadership needed and expected by the rest of the world, especially key allies such as Israel.

US President Barack Obama has "failed to lead in Syria" and the broader Middle East, and strains between his administration and ally Israel are emboldening Iran, Mitt Romney says.

Presumptive frontrunners so far this year are festival-circuit favorite "Amour" and international blockbuster "The Intouchables." read more

Ben Affleck had a love-hate relationship while making Argo...with his beard! "Sometimes it looked cool like Kurt Russell in one those early '80s movies, but sometimes I looked...

Cisco has ended its seven-year partnership with the Chinese hardware manufacturer ZTE following an internal investigation into whether ZTE sold Cisco networking gear to Iran, according to a report released on Monday.

SANLIURFA, Turkey – Monday was another day of cross-border violence and rising tension between Syria and Turkey. It was also a day when Gov. Mitt Romney pledged that, if elected president, he’d change the course of events here.

>* Kirk also seeks to blacklist entire energy sector of IranBy Roberta RamptonWASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Mark Kirk, who last year co-authored a package of U.S. sanctions on Iran's banking and oil sectors, is working on new legislation that would further tighten the economic noose on...

TNA IMPACT WRESTLING announces a number of major new global television partnerships, including a deal that brings its top-rated TV show, "IMPACT WRESTLING" to the Middle East and North Africa for the very first time.

Search our Archives! Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "see eye-to-eye" on the Iran threat and U.S.-Israel ties.

Canadian federal officials are also privately concerned about security risks to Ottawa’s computer networks posed by the Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies Ltd.

In a speech at the Virginia Military Institute, the GOP presidential hopeful looked to paint the president as a weak leader who has limited America's influence on global affairs. Romney also proposed that the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria.

NEW YORK (AP) -- When Elie Wiesel emerged from quintuple heart bypass surgery, still wired to monitors, he immediately started writing a book about the ordeal - "in my head." In French....

DENVER — Republican presidential nominee offered his harshest and most complete indictment of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy to date...

TEHRAN, Oct. 8 (MNA) -- Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says Israel will never be able to launch an attack against Iran, unless the United States assists it.

>* Iran currency down a third in 2 weeks* MTN shares down nearly 5 pct this monthBy Helen Nyambura-MwauraJOHANNESBURG, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The impact of Iran's currency slide has reached beyond its borders, hitting shares of MTN Group, the South African mobile operator that derives nearly a tenth of...

>* Kirk also seeks to blacklist entire energy sector of IranBy Roberta RamptonWASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Mark Kirk, who last year co-authored a package of U.S. sanctions on Iran's banking and oil sectors, is working on new legislation that would further tighten the economic noose on...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rumbling into its final four weeks, the presidential campaign is playing out on both coasts and multiple fronts, with Republican Mitt Romney seeking stature on foreign affairs and President Barack Obama raising political cash by the millions.

One of these studies is examining the origins of hydrocarbon-bearing rocks and movement of oil and gas in these regions since the Paleozoic era.

WASHINGTON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's top telecoms gear makers should be shut out of the U.S. market as potential Chinese state influence on them poses a security threat, the U.S. House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee said in a draft of a report to be released on Monday. U.

"I looked him in the eye and said, 'Please let us know if you have any plans to go into Iran because we'd like to be as current as possible.' (Obama said,) 'We'll be sure to let you know.'" Actor Damian Lewis made Barack Obama pledge to let...

>SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude slipped below $111 per barrel on Monday, dropping for a second straight session on concern that a fragile global economy could curb oil demand, but supply worries stemming from tension in the Middle East may help check losses. The World Bank cut on Monday its...

>The blast occurred in the area of Dogubayazit, a town in Agri province in eastern Turkey, the officials said, on condition of anonymity. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast, and when the gas flow will resume, they said. (Reporting by Orhan Coskun, Writing by Seda Sezer) Energy...

>Iran, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, has tightened cyber security since its uranium enrichment centrifuges were hit in 2010 by the Stuxnet computer worm, which Tehran believes was planted by Israel or the United States.Mohammad Reza Golshani, head of information technology for the Iranian Offshore Oil Company, told...

>The Israeli air force shot down a drone on Saturday after it crossed into southern Israel, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from.Jamaluddin Aberoumand, deputy coordinator for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the incident indicated that Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defence system...

Iran Oil Exports Slightly Rebound

A senior Iranian lawmaker says the recent remarks by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about the US-engineered sanctions on Iran should be heeded by the UN policy makers.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is one of the leading leftist figures in Latin America and one of the United States' most vocal critics, aligning himself with former Cuban President Fidel Castro and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is one of the leading leftist figures in Latin America and one of the United States' most vocal critics, aligning himself with former Cuban President Fidel Castro and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

A Pakistani police officer says a bomb attached to a motorcycle has killed one person and wounded 10 others near a police checkpoint in the country's southwest.

President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela's...

* Chavez beats state governor Capriles with 54 pct of votes * Socialist leader vows to extend his socialist revolution * Possible cancer recurrence remains short-term wild card CARACAS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezpromised to deepen his socialist revolution after a comfortableelection victory that could extend to...

The U.N.'s secretary-general has made a strong appeal to halt the flow of arms into Syria and warned that the crisis threatens stability in the entire region.

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