News Archive - 24 March 2014

>By John KempLONDON, March 24 (Reuters) - Japan will transfer all the highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium held at the country's fast critical assembly facility to the United States, the two countries said in a joint statement on Monday."This effort involves the elimination of hundreds of kilograms of...

Sydney (AFP) - Hosts Australia and reigning champions Japan will be keen to avoid fellow heavyweights South Korea when officials draw the groups for next year's Asian Cup at a lavish ceremony on Wednesday.

Two newcomers, Sens. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, and Ted Cruz, of Texas, are the hottest figures in the dominant conservative wing of the Republican Party. In markedly different ways, they both claim to be the heirs to the party’s contemporary patron saint, Ronald Reagan.

By NATE JARA On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a formal decree making Crimea, a Ukrainian territory on the north shore of the Black Sea, part of Russia. Once a Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Crimea was included into the newly independent state of Ukraine when the Soviet...

One year ago, in this column and on CNBC television, I predicted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will hit 25,000 in 2017. Some people, ...

The inside of the Constructed Facilities Laboratory is used to test large to full-scale structural systems under a wide variety of environmental conditions on Centennial Campus. Photographed by Victoria Crocker.

While skateboarding has a firm footing across major cities of the world, Iran certainly isn’t a name you’d associate with skating. Bridging an in-depth skateboarding… via Emag.co.uk

Fishmonger Shahin Anbarani’s counter was covered with bright-eyed Caspian kutum and spotted river trout, staples of the Persian New Year feast.

Air pollution by sources ranging from cooking fires to auto fumes contributed to an estimated seven million deaths worldwide in 2012, the UN health agency said Tuesday.

ONE FC: Davis, Saiful score second consecutive wins

Putin's move in Crimea has shaken assumptions about the new world order.

ON March 21, MISC Bhd entered into an agreement for the sale and purchase of shares to dispose of its unit MISC Integrated Logistics Sdn Bhd (MILS) to Golden Age Logistics Sdn Bhd, a special purpose vehicle wholly owned by Utusan Printcorp Sdn Bhd for RM250mil.

Israelis have cause for deep concern as Bennett, at the end of a year’s term, appears to be well on his way to achieving his dangerous goals.

This summer, Victoria University of Wellington student Mathew Rex did an internship at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in Sydney, Australia.

Gamblers in New Zealand spent $2072 million dollars on the four main forms of gambling in the 2012/13 financial year, $7 million more than the previous year, according to figures compiled by the Department of Internal Affairs.

Auckland, New Zealand – 25 March 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today a strategic investment of more than $10 million in its New Zealand cloud capability to meet the evolving needs of public sector agencies and private organisations.

MoreWorld Leaders Cancel G8 Summit In Russia After Ukraine Crisis‘Very Sizable’ Russian Force on Ukrainian Border, NATO Chief WarnsRussia looks like it is readying to cleave Ukraine, perhaps bringing some of its eastern half back into the warm embrace of Mother Russia. After Vladimir Putin’s sleight of army, which deftly...

Obama says US and Europe united on ‘imposing a cost’ on Russia over Ukraine

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has infiltrated servers in the headquarters of Chinese telecommunications and internet giant Huawei Technologies Co, obtaining sensitive information and monitoring the communications of top executives, the New York Times reported on Saturday.The newspaper said its report on the operation, code-named...

Seamless decision-making is a rare commodity during Arab summits because the League’s 21 member states hold differing regional views.

The Long Beach City College Board of Trustees has the potential for a complete makeover this election season, with three seats up for grabs, only one incumbent seeking reelection and the teacher-led L

It is with deep sadness that Malaysia Airlines earlier this evening had to confirm to the families of those on board Flight MH370 that it must now be assumed the flight had been lost. As the Prime Minister said, respect for the families is essential ...

Americans use Twitter to chat about sports and TV shows. In Turkey, Twitter is an essential communications tool used to organize political protests.

In a shocking move that many people are calling cruel and insensitive, Malaysia Airlines texted the families of the 239 people on the missing jet on March 24 to tell them that the flight remains lost and that no one on board survived.

Al Qaida-linked Syrian rebels took control Monday of a key border crossing connecting Turkey to a Syrian province considered the heart of support for the government of President Bashar Assad, Click to Continue »

It seems that every week some major character on a television show is getting murdered. And we’re not even talking about cop shows. Sunday night’s shocking death of “The Good...

Remarks Sarah Sewall Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Washington, DC March 20, 2014

________________________________________ In September 2013, the U.S. State Department launched a conflict mitigation initiative in Nigeria’s Delta region.

>"If our Western partners believe the format has exhausted itself, we don't cling to this format. We don't believe it will be a big problem if it doesn't convene," Lavrov told reporters in The Hague, where G7 leaders are meeting without Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the crisis in...

SWARTHMORE, Pa., March 24, 2014 /Emag.co.uk/ — The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has named:… via Emag.co.uk

For the first time since the US launched the Middle East peace talks last summer, the Palestinian leadership may be sensing it has a tiny bit of leverage.

An anonymous reader writes "Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek has defended his governments ban on Twitter and accused the social networking site of not complying with court orders. Simsek said: 'The Turkish telecommunications watchdog has made a number of statements saying that they have asked Twitter on a number of...

President Obama's upcoming meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah comes at a time when transformative developments are convulsing the regional and world order and relations between the US and the Kingdom have become strained. It is a situation that the President is smart to address.

Asghar Farhadi’s follow-up to the terrific A Separation sees him moving from Iran to France. Directing through an interpreter, he’s managed to coax a devastating performance from Bérénice Bejo (who took Best Actress at last year’s Cannes) as a serial monogamist mother. Radically u-turning from the breezy charm of The...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Ontario-raised stage star Ramin Karimloo has made a triumphant debut on Broadway. The actor-singer is getting rave reviews for his leading role as Jean Valjean in the New York production of "Les Miserables," which opened Sunday night at the Imperial Theatre, with some saying ...

Lebanese FM Gebran Bassil warns of plot to extend stay of refugees in his nation in bid to create military blocs there.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in Gaza on Sunday to show support for their Islamist Hamas government, which has long been at loggerheads with Israel but is now shunned by Egypt as well.

Today is Monday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2014. There are 282 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahl-DEEZ') ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of...

>Ahmad al-Assir, rumoured to have been killed fighting in neighbouring Syria, has been in hiding since June when the army and Shi'ite militants stormed his base in Sidon, the worst violence there since Lebanon's own 1975-90 civil war.Assir's order is unlikely to result in a mass exodus of Sunni...

>Lakhdar Brahimi mediated two rounds of talks in Geneva this year but failed to bring the two sides closer to agreeing on a transitional government as called for at an international conference in the Swiss city in 2012.Speaking in Kuwait ahead of an Arab League summit, Brahimi said the...

President Barack Obama is in the Netherlands, his first stop on a tour aimed at isolating Russia for its actions in Ukraine. Obama arrived at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and headed for The Hague, to immediately begin meetings with allies and partners. Although Obama is in the Netherlands for the Nuclear...

LORAIN — When the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee held its annual lobbying conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, Tim Williams was among the 14,000 members participating. Williams, Lorain Board of Education president, has volunteered for AIPAC since 2007. Williams, co-pastor of the Greater Victory Christian Ministries church,...

In an attempt to connect with the local populace, BJP vice president and nominee for the Darjeeling parliamentary seat S S Ahluwalia has said mountaineer Tenzing Norgay Sherpa deserves Bharat Ratna and the BJP will look into the matter if voted to power.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi insists he is not concerned by the ongoing criticism of his coaching methods ahead of June's World Cup.

March 24, 2014: ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, also called ISIS), despite continuing difficulties encountered fighting while fighting other rebel factions, the ISIL recently repeated its assurance that it would crush Kurdish resistance in the northeast.

AMSTERDAM - President Barack Obama begins a week of international travel with Russia's Crimean incursion at the top of his agenda, even as he simultaneously seeks to re-emphasize U.S. influence abroad. As he arrived in the Netherlands Monday on a sunny and brisk morning, no issue commanded more of...

President Barack Obama came to office challenging U.S. strategic thinking as an outdated Cold War relic. Obama arrived today in the Netherlands on the first leg of a six-day trip through Europe and Saudi Arabia as the Atlantic alliance tries to orchestrate a response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's...

>* Apple Inc is in talks with Comcast Corp about a streaming-television service that would use an Apple set-top box and try to bypass congestion on the web, people familiar with the matter said. (link.reuters.com/reb87v)* One of JP Morgan Chase & Co's top China executives is expected to...