News Archive - 1 August 2014

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S failure to secure a firm ceasefire in the Gaza Strip despite two weeks of intense diplomacy reflects new regional dynamics in which the world's most powerful actor has diminished influence and fewer allies.     When Secretary of State John Kerry left Washington on July 21...

>RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah broke his silence on Friday over the three-week-old conflict in Gaza, condemning what he saw as international silence over Israel's offensive and describing this as a war crime and "state-sponsored terrorism". Saudi Arabia, which regards itself as a leader of the Sunni Muslim...

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Jon Stewart's directorial debut 'Rosewater' will debut this autumn. Open Road Films announced that it will release the film adaptation of journalist Maziar Bahari's book on November 7, reported Digital Spy.

A collection of paintings created by the Iranian female artist Monavvar Ramezani has been showcased in a gallery in Tehran.

Did bribe set off Saharanpur riot?

Azerbaijan and Armenia reported the deadliest fighting near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region since the two countries signed a cease-fire 20 years ago.

Saharanpur Riots: UP police initiates probe against its men on allegations of bribery a night before the riots

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel bombarded the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Saturday as troops searched for an officer they believe was captured by Hamas in an ambush that shattered a humanitarian cease-fire and set the stage for a major escalation of the 26-day-old war.

Today is Saturday, August 9, the 221st day of 2014. There are 144 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:480 B.C. - Greek troops led by Spartan King Leonidas are overcome by the Persians at Thermopylae after...

  The PKL has got off to a rousing start, but it needs to do a lot more to attract crowds Read more

Joseph Miller is the pen name for a ranking Department of Defense official with a background in U.S. special operations and combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report is in, and the review of the president’s foreign policy is clear: If there is not an immediate course-reversal, the United States is in serious...

The recent Argentine debt default has many tentacles and its effects could be far reaching. Moreover, this is the second default from this South American country in the past 13 years. Learn more about Argentina's economy, financial markets, and who is affected, including mutual funds and hedge funds!

Updated 7:36 p.m. ET, 8/1/2014 CNN’s POLITICAL GUT CHECK | for August 1, 2014 | 5 p.m. — n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle OBAMA: ISRAELI SOLDIER MUST BE RELEASED … President Barack Obama said an Israeli soldier captured...

According to the IEA monthly report, Iran's average daily oil exports were revised up by 240,000 bar...

This Fall Semester 900 students will leave their homes across the globe and travel to the U to study. Julie Scott, who works with the...

Pro and anti-Hamas states snipe at one another to gain political leverage

A number of airlines are re-routing planes to avoid crossing Iraq due to the threat from militants on the ground, while other companies believe it is safe to keep flying across the country

 No one should be denied understanding of their human rights just because they can’t afford a mobile data plan. Now women in Zambia won’t be, as Facebook and Internet.org’s new app gives them free Internet connection for accessing women’s right resources like MAMA (Mobile Alliance For Maternal Action), WRAPP...

'We've become disengaged and isolated in the global arena'

Author: Gyeyir Denis Mwinkpeng Email: gdenismwin@hotmail.com INTRODUCTION Ghana gas resources are at the pivot of its developmental agenda of structural transformation through agriculture and industry.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has opened the country's first, state-run rehab and treatment center for alcoholism, an Iranian semi-official news agency reported on Friday. According to the report by ISNA, the center was inaugurated at the Tehran University's Medical School. One of the physicians at the center, ...

Coal is the most damaging fuel, and yet almost no countries tax it at all, and some actively subsidize it. Photo credit: Raimond Spekking, Wikimedia Commons

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress approved a $225 million package to replenish Israel's missile defenses with its last order of business before a five-week recess, as the Jewish state's cease-fire with Hamas unraveled and Israeli forces pushed deep into Gaza in search of a missing army officer.

Brussels (AFP) - No one doubts the latest EU and US economic sanctions on Russia will inflict significant costs, but whether they can force Moscow to reverse course in Ukraine is a completely different question.

It is an unsettling doomsday scenario: A ballistic missile is launched from a freighter near America’s shores, setting off a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere. This warning comes from the former director of the CIA, James Woolsey, in little-noticed testimony recently before the House Armed Services Committee. A nuclear weapon...

President Barack Obama’s demand for an unconditional and immediate cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, which would leave the latter with the wherewithal to murder Israeli civilians in the future, is just the most recent example of a policy to undermine the security of the only Jewish nation...

>LONDON/ANKARA (Reuters) - It should have been a routine delivery of vegetable oil to Iran for making margarine; instead the tanker spent months in the Gulf as banks held up payment for the cargo, fearing they would run foul of international sanctions. The sanctions regime, imposed by the United States...

LASUANNE, Switzerland, August 1. ISTANBUL, Turkey will play host to the 2nd FINA World Mens Youth Water Polo Championships (18 & Under), organised from August 2-10, 2014. A total 20 teams

The war between Israel and Hamas is one of the more puzzling events in the recent annals of the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A ceasefire had held between the two parties for nearly a year and a half; the strategic payoff of the latest conflict is vague for both sides, and...

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s release date announcement, Jon Stewart‘s directorial debut Rosewater has just revealed a few first-look pics. Gael Garcia Bernal leads the fact-based story as Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who imprisoned and tortured for 118 days in Iran. As the subject matter suggests, Stewart’s Rosewater...

WADSWORTH, Ohio, Aug. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Real Truth™ , a 10-issue-per-year publication distributed free of charge around the world, has published its August 2014 issue. "Five Traits Needed to Lead Europe" (p. 4) With the political landscape of the EU shifting, what are the five traits necessary for Europe's...

BRUSSELS (AP) — As the European Union struggles to respond to what it perceives as Russia's aggressive meddling in Ukraine, Italy and Poland are staking their claims to provide the bloc's new foreign-policy chief — kicking off a race in which the candidates' views of Moscow will likely be decisive.

The kingdom's policy towards Gaza is complicated by its mistrust of the territory's ruling Hamas, a movement with close ideological and political links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which Riyadh regards as a terrorist organisation.

Aug. 2, 2014, 12:15 a.m. While you’re waiting for the final book in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, The Mirror and the Light , due out next year, you can enjoy The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (HarperCollins, October), her collection of 10 short stories about...

Ilya Naymushin / Reuters A general view shows the Achinsk oil refining factory, owned by the Rosneft company, outside the town of Achinsk, some 188 km (117 miles) west of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

>BELGRADE (Reuters) - Accustomed to basketball glory when they were part of the former Yugoslavia, Serbia will struggle to be more than also- rans as an independent nation at this year's World Cup in Spain, their coach Aleksandar Djordjevic said. The 46-year old former playmaker, one of Europe’s most decorated...

August 1, 2014: A 72 hour ceasefire began today in Gaza. Hamas has insisted that no ceasefire was possible unless Israel stops all military operations but Israel insisted that its troops would continue moving in shooting in parts of Gaza their troops now occupied.

A top Iranian nuclear negotiator says Iran and the P5+1 can reach a final nuclear deal before the expiry of the four-month extension of talks between the two sides if the six countries acknowledge Tehran’s rights.

Mrs. Hollis first I will say that Mr. Moye is no more radical than Robert Tyson and "his ilk". I would buy them a cup of coffee if they would sit down together and talk to each other like rational grown men.

While both the U.S. and the European Union have begun to ratchet up economic sanctions on Russian banks and other interests following the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, the reaction of the Russian government so far has been muted, a panel of Dechert L.

Vienna, Aug 1 (IANS/WAM) The basket of 12 crude oils of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) stood $1.64 cheaper at $103.57 a barrel Thursday, against $105.21 Wednesday, according to the OPEC Secretariat.

As America grows less nationalistic, less hawkish, and less religious it will grow less sympathetic to an Israel defined by exactly those characteristics.

A Brief Overview of the 2014 Al Quds Rally at Queen's Park

"We shot dogs." So begins "Redeployment,"...

>LONDON (Reuters) - After a legal show-down in Texas this week, the outlook for a handful of tankers holding some $300 million worth of Kurdish oil is not looking good. Seemingly unable to find enough buyers willing to take a risk on million-barrel cargoes of disputed crude, the Kurdish authorities...