News Archive - 18 January 2014

>LOS ANGELES Jan 18 (Reuters) - Lupita Nyong'o and Jared Leto won Screen Actors Guild awards for their supporting roles on Saturday as Oscar nominees seek to gather crucial momentum in a competitive race for Academy Awards in six weeks. The Kenyan actress Nyong'o was recognized for her role as...

>* Experts say government aiming to block further leaks* Government official signals removals to continue* Several thousand people in three big cities protest (Updates with protests)By Humeyra PamukANKARA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Turkey has extended a purge of official bodies to the banking and telecoms regulators and state TV, firing...

>Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told Fars News Agency the diplomat was seriously injured when he resisted his attackers and was taken to a Sanaa hospital, where he died."We are seriously following up the dimensions of this terrorist action with the relevant Yemeni government officials," Afkham said.Security...

SANAA, Yemen - Gunmen killed an Iranian diplomat in a drive-by shooting in Yemen's capital Saturday, security and medical officials said, the latest attack on Iran's diplomatic corps in the Middle East in recent months. Iranian state television announced that Ali Asghar Asadi, Iran's economic attaché in Sanaa, was "martyred.

>The team, led by nuclear engineer Massimo Aparo, will begin reporting to the IAEA on Monday, marking the official start of the deal, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.Under the terms of the agreement with the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, Iran will stop work...

The Save Humanity Foundation Balochistan, located in the Pashtoonabad area of Quetta, currently houses 120 heroin addicts. “They are not addicts but live corpses,” Wali tells Dawn. — File Photo

MARQUETTE - From domestic drone use to new sanctions on Iran, to veterans and whether to raise the minimum wage, Michigan 1st Congressional District candidate Jerry Cannon, a Democrat from downstate Fife Lake, expressed several viewpoints in a...

Tehran (AFP) Jan 17, 2014 Iran denounced Friday as "one sided" a text released by the United States summarising the implementation of the nuclear deal Tehran struck with world powers. "The White House statement is a unilateral and one-sided interpretation of the unofficial agreements between Iran and P5+1" major powers,...

Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2014 The White House Thursday intensified an effort to placate political opposition to an interim Iran nuclear deal, as one influential Republican suggested delaying a vote on new sanctions until July. The Obama administration released an implementation agreement on the pact, which goes into force next...

NEW YORK (Jan 19): Wall Street stocks fell on Friday as quarterly earnings of Intel and General Electric disappointed, contributing to a...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a sizable entourage left Saturday for the Middle East on a six-day trip that will include a visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan.

The veteran actress has been recognized for her moving portrayal of a bit player in 'Ekstra.'

US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomes a decision by Syria's main political opposition group to attend next week's peace talks in Switzerland.

(MENAFN - AFP) The bloody civil war in Syria and Iran's efforts to come in from the diplomatic cold will drive the agenda next week as world leaders, business chiefs and celebritie...

Today is Sunday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2014. There are 346 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 19, 1807, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was born in Westmoreland County, Va.

On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving, Barack Obama sat in the office cabin of Air Force One wearing a look of heavy-lidded annoyance. The Affordable Care Act, his signature domestic achievement and, for all its limitations, the most ambitious social legislation since the Great Society, half a century ago . .

MUCH of the Muslim world — from the Maghreb to the Indonesian archipelago — is in the throes of violent change. Conflict is now spreading beyond the Islamic periphery. The one area of relative peace, the kingdoms of the Gulf, is also fragile.

Truth can be stranger than fiction, so they say. But when it comes to movies, truth can also be more powerful than fiction, at least judging by this year's Oscar nominees. No fewer than six of the nine films nominated for the best picture Academy Award are based on true...

MELBOURNE, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Li Na stormed into the quarter-finals of the Australian Open with a 6-2 6-0 hammering of Russian Ekaterina Makarova in just under an hour on Sunday.        

TEHRAN, Jan. 18 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad- Javad Zarif will visit Turkmenistan to attend the 13th session of the Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Economic Commission, Iran Daily reported on Saturday.

Jan 19 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Australian Open Men's Singles Round 4 matches on Sunday 2-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat 15-Fabio Fognini (Italy) 6-3 6-0 6-2 3-David Ferrer (Spain) beat Florian Mayer (Germany) 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2 6-1        

MELBOURNE, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Italy's Flavia Pennetta advanced to her first Australian Open quarter-final with a 6-1 4-6 7-5 victory over ninth-seeded German Angelique Kerber on Sunday.        

Truth can be stranger than fiction, so they say. But when it comes to movies, truth can also be more powerful than fiction, at least judging by this year's Oscar nominees. No fewer than six of the nine films nominated for the best picture Academy Award are based on true...

Prince Salman meets Shi'ite Muslim opposition leader in bid to restart reconciliation talks        

Tehran, Jan 19 (IANS) Iran will continue to support Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, a senior Iranian lawmaker said Saturday. Supporting the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah is a principle of Iran's foreign policy, Xinhua quoted Mohammad Hassan Asafari, a parliamentarian, as saying, while adding that Tehran will continue to throw its weight...

Accord will see sovereignty over two of three islands handed to the UAE        

Energy minister Silvan Shalom to attend event later this month; comes days after Dubai ruler's comments on Israel        

Inside an otherwise bland shipping container sat secret stealth fighter blueprints.        

NSA leaker Edward Snowden looks down during a press conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport... National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden had outside help, perhaps from Russian spies, according to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Beginning Monday, Iran has agreed to take steps to curtail some aspects of its nuclear program in exchange for $7 billion in relief from economic sanctions that the U.S. and its allies have imposed on the Islamic republic.

Some autobiographies emerge from careful reflection, others from career calculation. Robert Gates’ “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” seems the result of a good, long seethe.

THE national 15's squad will feature a much different player and coaching lineup as the Malaysian Rugby Union (MRU) has implemented a number of substantial changes for the squad this season.

(MENAFN - Arab Times) Kuwait's oil sector will remain as a vital driver of economic growth and is expected to expand 4.4% in 2013 and 4.0% in 2014. As the world's eighth-largest oi...

Mana is highly critical of the New Zealand government’s response to the devastation in Tonga caused by Cyclone Ian. Tonga is our closest Pacific neighbour but the government’s initial $50,000 contribution was frankly an embarrassment.

The friendship between Canada and Israel has been forged through their shared distrust of a Middle East actor — Iran. The topic of Iran is certain to top the agenda when Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu , this week during his first visit to...

"I've got a pen," said President Obama early this week. "I can use that pen to sign executive orders ...

The main Western-backed coalition of Syria’s political opposition agreed to attend peace talks in Switzerland next week, which will bring together representatives of President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups for the first time since the country’s civil war began in 2011.

Supporters of Iran sanctions bill in the US Senate are now “on the defensive” as the White House and mainstream media are both opposing the legislation, said Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer in Washington.

In the 1960s, most Kansas boys worshiped guys such Willie Mays. I idolized Roy Weatherby.

Washingtons Aussen minister John Kerry will endlich dem Frieden in Nahost näherkommen – darum reist er nächste Woche in die Schweiz. Offiziell ist vieles geheim.

Amou Haji lives, who lives in southern Iran, has not bathed for 60 years.

Latest VideoJanuary 18th, 2014     Ahmadinejad Syle in visit of Hassan Rohani to Khouzestan ! The office of Hassan Rohani published his message to the people of Khouzestan for their warm welcome and hospitality ! Watch related video titled ” Hassan Rohani Arabic speech in Ahwaz ..”...

A team of international inspectors arrived Saturday in Iran, a key step toward fulfilling a deal the country has struck with the United States and other world powers to curtail its nuclear program.

As his speech last week made clear, George Osborne is threatening to transform Britain into a country governed for the needs of the few George Osborne spoke last Monday before an audience that must have taken his aides weeks to find: the workers and managers of a manufacturing firm, which...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei agreed on Saturday to pardon or reduce the sentences of 878 people in honour of the Prophet Mohammad's birthday on Sunday, the state news agency IRNA reported. Last September, some 80 political prisoners were released, including prominent human rights activist and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh,...

The Iraqi Parliament has refused to sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia for an exchange of prisoners and opposes Riyadh to have a similar pact with Tehran. It was quite expected as a result of the Al-Maliki government’s policies that obstruct Iraq’s relations with other Arab countries.

It’s an exciting week in the art community! The ArtPalmBeach art fair celebrates its 17th anniversary at the Palm Beach County Convention Center Jan.

The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release imprisoned student activist Bahareh Hedayat before continued imprisonment and lack of adequate medical treatment for her chronic reproductive system problems cause irreversible damage to her health, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.

Massoumeh Ebtekar, the head of Iran's Department of the Environment, has reported on her Facebook page that she will not be speaking at the Friday Mass Prayers in Tehran, despite earlier announcements.

After 34 years of enmity, Tehran and Washington are heavily invested in the success of a deal over Iran's nuclear programme achieved through teamwork. Now the political future of Iran's new moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, depends on this issue. -Jasmin Ramsey

The shale oil revolution could produce a glut, thereby resulting in a sharp drop in the cost of oil, argues Reuters Breaking Views analyst Kevin Allison        

Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati publicly stated that the Iranian Judiciary should join the Rouhani administration in providing more freedom of expression to Iranian media and artists, in an interview with Al Jazeera. His remarks drew strong criticism from Iran's Prosecutor General and Spokesperson for the...

More than 2,500 of the world’s top leaders and wealth creators are expected to descend on the Swiss town

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) A Turkish news agency says about 3,000 Kurds have rallied to demand that Syrian Kurds' right to self-rule be recognized at an upcoming peace conference.Syrian Kurds have increased their hold in the north of...

Latest VideoJanuary 18th, 2014     Javad Zarif react to White Houe release of confidential documents about nuclear deal The Islamic Republic  foreign minister Mohamad Javad Zarif react to  release of  confidential document about Geneva nuclear deal by United States , an name it an  act related to internal politic of...

U.N. Staff, IMF official killed in Kabul suicide attack A Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen killed 21 people at a restaurant in Kabul on Friday evening. The International Monetary Fund's top representative in Afghanistan and three U.N. staff members were killed in the attack. According to police, thirteen...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates signs copies of his new book at the Pentagon on Thursday....

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iran, concerned over the loyalty of Hizbullah, has expanded recruitment to help defeat Sunni rebels in Syria. Diplomatic sources said Iran was reaching out to young Muslims to join the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the war against Sunni rebels.

By now, a lot of journalists have mined all the “money quotes” from former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s memoir, Duty. Even before the book came out, we learned that Gates is contemptuous of Congress, believes that Vice President Joe Biden has been wrong on pretty much everything...

Australia has used one of its new life boats for the first time to send a group of 56 asylum seekers back to Indonesia in a move that is likely to plunge the bilateral relationship to a new low.        

The troubled Joint Strike Fighter stealth aircraft project has been dealt another blow, after a US court revealed how an American man tried to ship thousands of pages of plans to Iran.

Talks bringing together delegates from Syria's government and opposition will attempt to find solution to ongoing war.

Author of 'Company Man,' who approved rules governing waterboarding, will speak at the Pratt When the CIA's chief lawyer, John Rizzo, first came across the term "enhanced interrogation technique" shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he was struck by the phrase's deceptive blandness.

Egypt's former president arrives for second session of his trial on charges of inciting the killing of protesters Mohamed Morsi has arrived in court in Cairo for the second session of his trial on charges of inciting the killing of protesters during his time as Egyptian president, state media reported.

“The Hunter” takes the viewer to Iran. Recently released from prison, Ali (played by acclaimed director Rafi Pitts, who also directed the movie) makes the most of his freedom.

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A senior Iranian lawmaker says Wahhabi-minded Takfiri and terrorist groups in Syria serve the interests of Muslims’ enemies.   “Takfiri groups are used as a tool by enemies of Islam and they seem to lack a true understanding of Islam,” head of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee,...

Stephen Harper's jaunt to the middle east this week is 'historic'. That's not media hype or hyperbole, that's actually how the prime minister's office is describing the trip that begins, in earnest, on Sunday. Over the next seven days, the … Continue reading →

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) A team of international inspectors have arrived in Iran ahead of the Islamic Republic opening its nuclear program as part of a landmark deal struck with world powers.Iranian state television said the inspectors...

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the agreement reached between Iran and the Sextet of world powers over the country’s nuclear energy program is an important step toward peace and stability of the region.

A passenger was killed Friday night after being trapped inside a SUV when it overturned into a creek. The driver is now facing charges.

Opium cultivators, concentrated in Neemuch and Mandsaur districts on Madhya Pradesh’s northwestern border with Rajasthan, are up in arms against imports of Turkish white poppy seeds known as posta...

US Senate hawks, heavily backed by the powerful Israel lobby, have enough votes to pass a sanctions bill against Iran but they lack the plan to put the measure to a vote.

Good morning, it’s Saturday January 18, it’s cold outside, and it’s the anniversary of the first governor of Texas who was actually from Texas.

The US and Iran resemble each other in stunning ways.

By Shilpa Raina, Jaipur, Jan 18 : When women writers from Islamic countries discuss sexuality and erotic poems, taboos and male dominance, and mull over breaking free from conservative norms, the audience is bound to be large.

Latest VideoJanuary 18th, 2014     IAEA director Yukio Amano published its report about implementation Iranian nuclear deal The Iranian TV published latest report of IAEA director Youkio Amano about commitment of Iran in a six month accord with 5+1 beginning Monday January 20th  . Watch related video titled “  Foreign ministry...

A new article makes the case for the US as the world's de facto government.

Iran's Bank Mellat seeks to file a claim of at least 500 million pounds (USD 820 million) in compensation against the British government for loss of business caused by illegal sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear energy program, a lawyer for the bank says. It is the first time that...

MELBOURNE, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Victoria Azarenka remained on course for a third straight Australian Open title with a thumping 6-1 6-0 victory over Yvonne Meusburger in exactly an hour on Saturday.        

The second day of the 27th International Islamic Unity Conference is underway in the Iranian capital, Tehran, bringing together hundreds of religious thinkers and scholars from around the world, Press TV reports.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he plans to pay an official visit to Iran in the near future to strengthen mutual relations and discuss avenues for further improving cooperation.

Investigations conducted by the National Security Council (NSC) have established that the 1.5 tonnes of supposed gold alleged to have been sold by President John Dramani Mahama to Iran is not true.

Latest VideoJanuary 18th, 2014     Experts in Farance and US comment about Uranium mines and necessity of nuclear energy in Iran Head of scientific chemistry and physic research in France and expert of foreign policy and nuclear issues in United states , debate  about Uranium mines and necessity of nuclear...

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh reportedly plans to visit the UK in the near future to hold talks with British and other European oil and gas companies about their future presence in Iran’s energy sector.

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It's hard to know exactly what the growing number of senators who've signed on to a sanctions bill against Iran think they're doing.

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the meeting between their commerce ministers on Saturday, India and Pakistan Wednesday discussed impediments hampering the normalisation of trade ties, in a bid to remove them and move forward, reports Iran's IRNA news agency.

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WASHINGTON – Here in your nation’s capital, things are not always what they seem. There is great excitement that an actual “budget” has been hammered out in Congress, averting another government shutdown. This is the first budget since 2011. Even though it is Congress’ job to devise an annual budget,...

Violence is spiraling out of control in Iraq, as the regime dodges responsibility.

Malaysian companies should make Pakistan a platform to expand the export of halal-based products to the Middle East and Central Asia. This can be done by utilising its abundant resources, said the Pakistan-Malaysia Business Council chairman, M. Bashir Janmohammed. Pakistan is ranked fifth globally for milk production, has the second...