News Archive - 15 April 2014

>LONDON (Reuters) - Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country's civil war. They would signal a further internationalization of the conflict, with new rockets suspected from Russia and drones from Iran also...

>While it did not detail what the veteran diplomat may have done during the period, when radical Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy and held 52 U.S. hostages for 444 days, the State Department for the first time linked the U.S. decision not to issue him a...

BOSTON (AP) - Survivors, first responders and relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversary Tuesday with tributes that combined sorrow over the loss of innocent victims with pride over the city's resilience in the face of a terror attack.

DUBLIN, Ireland, April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9bhrmd/middle_east) has announced the addition of the "Middle East Insurance Market Outlook to 2017 - Motor and Health Segment to Channel the Growth" report...

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Mohammad Javad Zarif says on Facebook he has back pain after newspaper reports him describing contact as 'inappropriate' Iran's foreign minister has admitted himself to hospital complaining of back pain and spasms he says he has suffered after a hard-line newspaper misquoted him on the subject of the president's contact...

VIENNA (AP) — The United Nations will release a report this week certifying that Iran's ability to make a nuclear bomb has been greatly reduced because it has diluted half of its material that can be turned most quickly into weapons-grade uranium,...

Media report says man has confessed to exchanging information with four British intelligence agents Iranian authorities have arrested a man on charges of spying for Britain, according to media reports. The semiofficial ISNA news agency said on Saturday that the man was arrested in the town of Kerman, south-east Iran,...

Barack Obama hails historic accord as first step towards resolution of decade-old impasse over Iran's nuclear programme Iran has struck a historic deal with the US and five other world powers, accepting strict constraints on its nuclear programme for the first time in a decade in exchange for partial relief...

The Socceroos have drawn fellow World Cup contestants South Korea in the same pool for next year's Asian Cup to be played in Australia.        

International conflicts such as the current tensions over Ukraine could stand in the way of global cooperation on cybersecurity, according to the founder of Kaspersky Lab. read more

>Rebels and the Syrian government have blamed each other for the alleged poison gas attacks on Friday and Saturday on rebel-held Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama. Both sides said chlorine gas had been used."These continuous violations by the Damascus regime require the international community to...

>By Gabriel DebenedettiMANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Conservative Republican Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz tested the 2016 presidential waters at an event on Saturday in the influential state of New Hampshire at which potential opponents from the more moderate wing of the party did not appear.The "Freedom Summit"...

>* Iran says exporting just 1 mln b/d, much less than IEA estimatesBy Keith WallisSINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - Brent crude futures dropped below $109 a barrel following a surge to a six-week high in the previous session, as investors looked ahead to a meeting in Geneva that they hoped...

>The Bosnians, for whom Brazil is their first major tournament as an independent nation, scored 30 goals in 10 qualifiers and former Yugoslavia forward Susic believes their attacking approach is the best way to get out of Group F against Argentina, Nigeria and Iran."We will play the way we...

>Abu Dhabi, April 16 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said he does not fear opposition from hardliners as he leads negotiations to reach a comprehensive agreement about Iran's nuclear program with world powers by the end of July. "I am optimistic" that a deal will be reached in...