News Archive - 29 May 2014

Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama laid out a sweeping vision for U.S. foreign policy on Wednesday but made no mention of what has been a signature tune of his administration’s diplomacy: the “pivot” to Asia.

Social-Media Companies Skip Meeting With Thai Junta

Iranian police have arrested a woman journalist who covered parliament for pro-reform media on orders from the conservative-controlled judiciary.

By Stephen Kalin and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won a landslide victory in a presidential election on Thursday but a low turnout threatened to deprive him of the strong mandate he needs to fix the economy and face down an Islamist insurgency.

HYDERABAD: Federal Minister for Commerce, Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan said that the government had started various projects to resolve the issue of load-shedding and reducing its tariff on priority basis.

The news that the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq started sending cargoes of its oil to the international crude market last week was surprising.

Soccer fans unite: MoneyGram , a leading global money transfer and payment services company, is collaborating once again with FC Dallas to host the 2014 FC Dallas MoneyGram Nations Cup Tournament which draws more than 300 top amateur players from the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Democrats were quick to rebut Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's criticism of President Barack Obama's policies toward Israel and Iran, which the president delivered Wednesday evening during a stop on his first high-profile overseas trip .  Cruz's comments, which he made on a conference call with reporters, came the same day...

The consensus among various opposition groups in Syria is that Syria’s real strongman is no longer the country’s president, Bashar Al-Assad, but Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Al-Quds Force, an offshoot of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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>BOSTON (Reuters) - In an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a fake news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States, Israel and other countries, a cyber intelligence firm said on Thursday. ISight Partners, which uncovered the operation,...