News Archive - 2 December 2013

Latest VideoDecember 2nd, 2013     Chief of police call officials to do not bypass blocked websites with proxies ! The commander of police force Sardar Ahmadi Moghadam confirmed that some web sites are blocked inside the country but aired for use outside users ,  and called officials to avoid bypassing filtered...

>* Rising supply to Asia from Russia, Latin America, West Africa* Some sellers cut prices, extend credit to lure buyersBy Florence TanSINGAPORE, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Middle East oil exporters are locked in an increasingly fierce battle for the world's fastest-growing markets in Asia, as producers worldwide ship more crude...

>Some of the crowd in central Yerevan held banners declaring "Putin, go home" or "No to the USSR", a reference to the Russian leader's efforts to bind former Soviet republics together more closely in economic and security alliances.Putin flew to the South Caucasus country for talks on its decision...

>KUWAIT Dec 1 (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it wanted stronger cooperation with U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, as it seeks to ease concerns among Gulf Arab neighbours about a potential resurgence in its influence following a nuclear deal with world powers.Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, on a...

US has said that it is the Egyptian people who would decide the fate of the draft constitution through a referendum as Washington continued to support the democratic transition process in the country.        

The Armed Services chair expects that the Texas representative will succeed him.

What almost made the top news stories of the year? We here at Yahoo like making lists out of chaos. As 2013 closes out, we're back with Top 10 rankings of searches, news, obsessions and more. But sometimes, what doesn't make a Top 10 list can be as intriguing as...

As the holiday season approaches, they are dancing on Wall Street with the Dow, S&P and NASDQ either at or approaching all-time highs.

President Barack Obama in 2013 finally brought order out of the chaos of his initial response to the turmoil in the Middle East known as Arab Spring. Obama, elected on a promise to end two wars in the region, made a blunt declaration that promoting democracy worldwide is not a...

Britain’s new envoy to Tehran will visit Iran Tuesday for the first time since a thaw in relations between the two countries who severed ties two years ago, reported Agence France-Presse.

Pope Francis, center, meets with a group of Argentinian secretaries-general of unions Nov. 26 at the Vatican. / L'Osservatpre Romano, epa VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a closed-door meeting at the Vatican to discuss matters that are highly political and an...

Seeking to create an analogy for the deal the United States negotiated with Iran to supposedly limit further production of its centrifuges, Secretary of State John Kerry chose to recall disarmament agreements between the United...

VIENNA, Austria – Saudi Arabia is satisfied with current crude prices as well as global supply and demand levels, its oil minister said, indicating OPEC will freeze its output ceiling. "The market is in the best position it can be," Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi told reporters in Vienna ahead...

The UK's new envoy to Tehran is to visit Iran for the first time on Tuesday.

HAVING tasted life riding for European, Japanese and this year a Taiwanese outfit, Ng Yong Li has put his Spanish skills to good use and landed himself with Argentina's Start-Trigon team for the new season.

Columnists tell the BBC what stories the US media has been overlooking

CPI inflation in November hit its 18-month high at 10.90 percent, thanks to soaring prices of tomatoes and potatoes. This was a sharp rise over 9.08 percent in the month before and over 6.93 percent in the corresponding month last year.

Late last week, reforms advocacy was seen at full display in a policy symposium organised by the Islamabad-based think tank Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), focussing on taxation and energy reforms.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during second joint high committee meeting between Kuwait and Iran at the foreign ministry in Kuwait city on Sunday. Zarif appealed to Saudi Arabia to work together with his government toward achieving regional “stability.”

The U.S. list of “terrorist” states has long been a sick joke, most notably by including Cuba (for domestic political reasons) and excluding Saudi Arabia (for financial reasons). Now, the list is undercutting policy goals, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.

Venezuela's government is setting limits on prices for cars as President Nicolas Maduro tries to close a popular loophole used by savers to guard against the fastest inflation in two decades. Maduro said ...

Latest VideoDecember 2nd, 2013     Mohseni Ejei threat leaders of post election riots in his weekly press conference The spokesman of judiciary and prosecutor general Mohseni Ejei answered a question about leaders of  post election riots which is usually named by regime as “Fitna Leaders ” that the regime have...

Latest VideoDecember 2nd, 2013     Judiciary Spokesman : January 7 , is fixed for trial of ex president Ahmadinejad The spokesman of judiciary and prosecutor general Mohseni Ejei , who was fired from his job as minister of intelligence by Ahmadinejad said during his weekly press conference on Monday December...

Latest VideoDecember 2nd, 2013     Prosecutor General : Officials reacted against Facebook because of its crimnal content ! The prosecutor general said in his weekly breifing of Monday December 7 , that any web site with criminal content will be prosecuted , thats why related organizations have acted against face book...

Arab countries should be very careful while dealing with Iran. Ideally, cooperation with a neighbor for collective benefit of the region is preferable. But in case of Iran, we have to put aside our idealism. One has to be careful because of its hegemonic ambitions in the region.

In the future, we live with drones.        

Former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon on challenges in China, Afghanistan, and Iran.        

Copyright show:  Hide copyrights Seventy-year-old Kakesh Jumabai-Kyzy has spent her entire life working with felt. The mother of eight lives in the mountainous Kyrgyz area of At-Bashy, where many families still tend flocks of sheep that provide the warm, fluffy wool that Jumabai-Kyzy transforms into traditional Kyrgyz clothing and the...

Protesters align behind Vitali Klitschko after government ditches deal to strengthen ties with EU.        

Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for a 25-minute closed-door exchange in the Vatican on Monday.

Three hooded hackers hunch over their computer screens in the control room at Israel's new state-of-the-art "Cyber Gym", where IT and infrastructure company employees train to defend against cyber attacks.

Highly-poisonous botulinum toxin (the stuff in Botox), played a formidable role in the history of food and warfare. It is still a factor in prison-brewed alcohol and some canned foods, and can quickly kill a person.        

German brewers say a beer purity law deserves a spot on the UNESCO list for 'intangible cultural heritage'.

Apple is taking aim not just at the court-ordered monitor in the ebooks antitrust case, but also at U.S. District Judge Denise Cote herself.

>Dec 2 (Reuters) - Akamai Technologies Inc said it will spend about $370 million to acquire Prolexic Technologies Inc, a pioneer in fighting distributed denial of service attacks, cyberthreats that cripple networks by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.The move will bolster Akamai's security offerings, which already include some services...

>* U.S. shale could add 5 mln bpd in 5 years to 2016* No change to 30 million bpd output target expectedBy Alex LawlerVIENNA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - OPEC is perhaps fortunate that the misfortune of some of its own members should make a production policy meeting this week...

>The election of a relative moderate, President Hassan Rouhani, has paved the way for a thaw in ties between the two countries. London announced the appointment of Ajay Sharma as its charge d'affaires in November."In the first step, the British non-resident charge d'affaires will travel to Tehran on Tuesday...

Latest VideoDecember 2nd, 2013     Minister of communication talk about Internet progress during 100 days Rohani administration The minister of communication Mahmood Vaezi  talk about Internet progress during 100 days Rohani administration on Iranian TV on Sunday December first 2013 .

NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Iced/RTD Coffee Drinks Report 2013...

Facing his 63rd winter, Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations --- both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir, WINTER JOURNAL,...

Court rejected the request made by a group of lawyers

TOKYO - Asia’s top buyers of Iranian crude cut purchases by about 15 percent so far this year but shipments may start rising after six world powers agreed this to ease some sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear program.

Sneaking Nick Brody (Damian Lewis) into Iran was supposed to be a quiet, bloodless mission. But the CIA operation quickly deteriorates into a loud, bloody fiasco on “Good Night,” Episode 310 of Showtime’s “Homeland.”        

>CAC-40 December futures down 0.01 pct at 0715 GMTDANONENew Zealand dairy exporter Fonterra said on Monday it may face legal action from France's Danone over the recall of infant formula containing a potentially contaminated Fonterra ingredient.SODEXOThe founder and chairman of restaurant services group Sodexo, Pierre Bellon, will be...

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>Global Picture Desk: + 65 6870 3775Global Graphics Desk: + 65 6870 3595(All times GMT / ET)Receive this schedule by email:mediaexpress.reuters.comTOP STORIESGlobal factory growth picks up but Europe splitsLONDON/MUMBAI - Buoyant demand for manufactured goods drives global factory activity to accelerate last month, surveys show, but a two-year...

>RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia seems to have few viable options for pursuing a more independent and forthright foreign policy, despite its deep unease about the West's tentative rapprochement with Iran. Upset with the United States, senior Saudis have hinted at a range of possibilities, from building strategic relations with...

>VIENNA (Reuters) - Bijan Zanganeh returns this week to the same Vienna hotel suite he last occupied eight years ago as Iranian oil minister, ready to prepare OPEC for what Tehran hopes will mark its return as the cartel's second biggest producer. Emboldened by its nuclear deal with the West,...