News Archive - 4 October 2014

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham has expressed Tehran’s “support” for Algeria’s plan to facilitate national reconciliation in Libya.

>The European Union is quietly increasing the urgency of a plan to import natural gas from Iran, as relations with Tehran thaw while those with top gas supplier Russia grow chillier, a European Commission source told Reuters in September."We are lagging in production and think about domestic consumption first,"...

Like Jordan, Saudi Arabia is often maligned by countries in the Arab and Muslim world for its alliance with the United States. Other countries in the Middle East, like Syria, have strained its ties in recent years for Jordan’s tacit recognition of Israel, and for Saudi Arabia’s overt adversarial tone...

A senior Iranian general has warned against future threats to Tehran from the high seas and underlined the need to nip such enemy plots in the bud.  

Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states said in a joint declaration Friday they opposed an arms race in space.

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Lebanon must seriously consider Iran's offer of support to the Lebanese Army, a Hezbollah lawmaker urged Saturday, pointing out the country's dire need for arms.

India secured 11 gold medals, three fewer than what they collected in China four years ago, 10 silver and 36 bronze for a total haul of 57.

White smoke billows over the town of Kobane in Syria and the crash of mortar shells is clearly audible -- the intensity of the battle for the Kurdish town is tangible from the Turkish side of the border.

Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2014 8:02 pm | Updated: 11:03 pm, Thu Sep 25, 2014. The attorney general, one of the most liberal voices in the Obama administration, says he'll remain at the Justice Department until his successor is in place.

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Families arriving at the northern refugee camp of Aliama without men are forced to explain their absence and prove they are not militant fighters.

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File). FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2014, file photo, Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai used his farewell speech on Tuesday to take one last swipe at the United States, capping a long-testy relationship with the accusation that America hasn't wanted peace in Afghanistan.

Croatian director Jakov Sedlar's "What Does Anne Frank Mean Today?" weaves scenes from Frank's diary with conversations with ordinary Palestinian youngsters. read more

INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — Before all the attention generated by the Qatari women's team withdrawing from the Asian Games basketball competition due to a ban on head coverings in competition, the Indian men's team faced a similar predicament.

Ben Affleck is now generating some of the most remarkable reviews of his acting career, thanks to David Fincher’s acclaimed crime thriller, Gone Girl. Credit where credit is due: Affleck is now long past his career decline and point of ridicule.

Iran is "hopeful" about comprehensive nuclear deal in the short time left, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said in his address to the UN General Assembly meeting on Thursday, according to Iranian local media report.

SANAA, Yemen — The capital of Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest and perhaps most chronically unstable nation, has new masters. Anti-American Shiite rebels staff checkpoints ...

Leeds United were embroiled in fresh controversy this weekend amid claims the club takeover in 2012 may have been partly financed by a fund co-owned by the Iranian government.

An ultra-marathoner trying to "run" from Florida to Bermuda in a human-powered inflatable bubble was rescued Saturday morning after he signaled for help, the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard first encountered Reza Baluchi on Wednesday after receiving a report about a man in a bubble off the coast of Florida, disoriented and asking for directions.

(CNN) — An ultra-marathoner trying to “run” from Florida to Bermuda in a human-powered inflatable bubble was rescued Saturday morning after he signaled for help, the Coast Guard said. **View video of the rescue taken by the U.S. Coast Guard in the video player below** Reza Baluchi, according to...

Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia.

The trooper was told the men would be taken to the governor's residence in Jalawa after surrendering to Kurdish troops. Pictured: The office where the men were taken in ruins.

The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to honour all its Kabaddi players, who brought laurels to the country in the recently held Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea, with Rs. 20 lakh each...

ISIS is urging its members to plan for war with Iran and has ambitions to seize Tehran’s nuclear secrets, according to a manifesto attributed to one of its most senior members.

Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA – Japan wrapped up the 17th Asian Games on Saturday, falling well shy of its target of second place in the first international multi-sports tournament since winning the bid to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a year...

Now that he's the incumbent seeking re-election Nov. 4, U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, is sticking with what worked last time. He's running hard against President Barack Obama while almost never uttering the name of his Democratic opponent, Elisabeth Jensen, who runs an educational nonprofit.

Exclusive: Since the Contra-cocaine scandal surfaced in 1985, major U.S. news outlets have disparaged it, most notably when the big newspapers destroyed Gary Webb for reviving it in 1996. But a New York Times review of a movie on Webb finally admits the reality, writes Robert Parry.

In the third episode of the new sitcom “Mulaney,” Nasim Pedrad, playing single lady Jane, gets a cat. Not to “replace” men, but “instead of” them. The distinction is meant...

Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that it will stream the selector spread WIXOSS sequel series as it airs in Japan. The stream will be available in France...

ONE YOUNG television journalist wanted to know what should be done with the Gilas Pilipinas basketball program.

GIPAKAGING sa host South Korea ang gika­hadlukang Iran, 79-77, aron langkaton ang...

US President Barack Obama's strategy against the Islamic State (IS) could involve Russia and Iran as go-betweens to Damascus, Richard Haass, president of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, said on Thursday.

INCHEON, Oct. 4: The third Asian Games to be hosted by South Korea concluded with a spectacular closing ceremony at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium today. The Saturday night’s ceremony which brought the curtain down of the 17th edition of the 45-nation games was a treat to watch.

We meet the Iraqi-born musician, Nawres Al-Freh, who will reveal the hidden beauties of the maqam, a musical style that travelled the Silk Road out of the Middle East and into Central Asia centuries ago. Part of the classical music heritage of the Muslim world, with lyrics ranging from secular...

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, used his annual pre-Mecca speech to insult Israel and call for its annihilation, instead of spreading the message of peace and love as the ‘religion of peace’ is supposed to do. The hate-filled speech, which was delivered on Friday ahead of the Muslim holiday...

The only option for the United States to defeat the Islamic State and end the refugee crisis. Any solution to the Syrian refugee crisis rests on lasting political stability in Syria.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Shiite rebels who seized Yemen's capital of Sanaa, known as the Houthis, are followers of the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam. Here is a look on who the Zaydis are:

The 2nd National Exhibition and Festival of Herbal Plants, Natural Products and Traditional Medicine has held in the Iranian capital, Tehran, Press TV has reported. More than 353 companies participated in the year's exhibition to offer their products and services.

India won fewer medals than they had in Guangzhou four years ago. That said, the hockey and squash teams defied odds. So did swimmer Sandeep Sejwal, whose bronze was as worthy as gold. However, the archers, shuttlers and boxers flattered to deceive

Dr. Hulki Uz, United Nations Population Funds (UNFPA) Representative in Iran, said people above 60 years old constitute 8.1% of the population and that growth rate of the population of the elderly is higher than other population groups.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The capital of Yemen, the Arab world's poorest and perhaps most chronically unstable nation, has new masters.

Iran with 57 medals, including 21 gold, 18 silver and 18 bronze, finished 5th in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on Saturday.

There is usually a price when bloodlust goes unchecked in distant lands.

Paid to attack her employer, Parisa Tabriz is a white-hat hacker on the front line in the fight against the Internet 'bad guys'

In the last five weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has interacted with heads of state of three important countries, Japan, China and the United States. He has visited two of them and hosted a third.

INCHEON South Korea - China won two more table tennis gold medals at the Asian Games on Saturday, pushing their overall tally to 151 for the multi-sports event, while hosts South Korea finished runners-up for a fifth straight Games ahead of Japan in third. The South Koreans earned 79 golds...

Oil prices ended last week in freefall as the world’s largest group of producers from petro-states in the Middle East dithered over whether to cut output

DALLAS (AP) - After days of scrutiny about their treatment, a family that was living in the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient was staying when he got sick was moved to a private residence in a gated community.

Yet as Lenin observed in his analysis of first world war alliances, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The anti-IS coalition has several weak links. Though Turkey is a member of NATO and shares 1,200km of borders with Iraq and Syria, it seems to be the...

INCHEON South Korea - Women's basketball teams at future Asian Games could be allowed to wear hijabs thanks to the stand taken by Qatar's players at the Incheon Asiad, the head of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Saturday. Qatar's women had been asked to remove their head...

Over 2,000 delegates including 400 participants from 50 countries will congregate at the XI Metropolis World Congress 2014, which will begin here from October 6.

Iranian photographer Davoud Ameri has garnered top award at the 6th C.P.N.O. International Exhibition of Photography held in Macau, China.

Mumbai-based Cipla Ltd has signed a definitive agreement with its existing Iranian distributor for setting up a manufacturing facility in Iran. The total contribution from the company over the next 3 years will include machinery, equipment, technical know-how and is expected to be approximately Rs 225 crore for a 75%...