News Archive - 23 May 2014

>HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A handful of heavily armed insurgents, including suicide bombers, launched a rocket propelled grenade and gun attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's western city of Herat hours before dawn on Friday, officials said. Indian staff at the mission escaped soon after the shooting began at...

>VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has cut its most sensitive nuclear stockpile by around 80 percent under an interim pact with world powers and has begun engaging with a long-stalled IAEA investigation into suspected weapons research, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Friday. The findings, in a quarterly report by...

A campaign to have Iranian actress Leila Hatami publicly flogged has been filed by radical students in her home country of Iran. Hatami, who is best known for starring in the Oscar-winning "A Separation," received a peck on the cheek from Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob at the opening-night...

There was no talk of Afghanistan, Iran or nuclear missiles. But there were plenty of green alligators and long-necked geese.

EDMONTON — Walter Ross always wanted to finish high school, and on Thursday night he shuffled across a stage to celebrate his graduation — right after his grandson. The 90-year-old was recently granted his diploma after leaving high school when he...

Malaysia’s most courageous lawyer and most principled politician. The hudud debate has so far been conducted in the context of Islamic law and syariah, with proponents wishing to contain it within the faith. This is misplaced.

KUCHING: Penusah ti nuntung seiku orang indu, Pedin anak Apa, iya nya balu ex-Renjer Boh anak Rejin matak runding kaban ari Serakup Soldadu Veteran Malaysia Nengeri Sarawak (PVTMS).

GENEVA, May 23, 2014 – Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch presented its annual Moral Courage Award on Thursday to Canadian cabinet minister Jason Kenney, one of the country’s most influential national figures, a decision that drew strong praise from the Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Tibetan...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A federal fraud investigation led to a Jordanian-born man being charged with murder in district court in the shooting death of an Iranian student and women's rights activist two years ago, prosecutors said. Authorities are also now taking a new look at an unsolved killing...

>MOSCOW May 22 (Reuters) - Russia plans to sign a contract with Iran this year to build two more nuclear reactors at its Bushehr power plant as part of a broader deal for up to eight reactors in the Islamic state, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters on...

>WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - Recent meetings between U.S. oil producers and Commerce Department officials have fueled industry hopes that the Obama administration may soon begin to ease a longstanding ban on oil exports. Although it would require an act of Congress to end the four-decade export ban, some...

>* Government says country in process of democratisationBy Nailia BagirovaBAKU, May 23 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan suffered an embarrassing and sharply timed rebuke on Friday when Europe's main human rights and democracy forum accused it of intimidating and repressing its critics.The rap from the parliamentary arm of the 47-nation Council...

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>The U.S. Treasury Department, which announced the sanctions, did not link the action to negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.Iran and six world powers, including the United States, face a July 20 deadline on their talks. U.S. and Iranian officials said last week there has been little progress...