News Archive - 25 October 2014

>DUBAI (Reuters) - A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared. Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on...

The United Nations and Amnesty International and other human-rights groups had called on Iran’s judiciary to halt the execution, which was carried out after the country’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict.

A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged yesterday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared.

Members of a German outlaw motorcycle gang have been fighting ISIS alongside...

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The Iraqi government claims that its troops and Shiite militias have captured a key Islamic State stronghold near Baghdad.

Energy kingpin Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf states are set to resist pressure to tighten the taps significantly to shore up oil prices as the global economy stumbles, analysts say. Oil prices have ...

With increasing threats to the U.S.

A policeman stands guard outside the Coynes’ home. In the third part of our special series, we recount the curious case of the Clepington Bomber and a mysterious scientist.

CHINA executed 2,400 people last year according to a human rights group - more than triple the rest of the world combined.

He’s the Staller in Chief — President Obama has punted almost every hot-button issue past the key midterm elections on Nov. 4. Obama has postponed decisions on a raft of...

Don't miss our Crimes of the 90s series all this week! The Tele’s Stewart Ross is reopening the case files on some of Dundee’s most notorious crimes from the 1990s.

THE Navy has been put on red alert after Al Qaeda urged its followers to blow up oil tankers using the Strait of Gibraltar.

WASHINGTON -- With talks nearly deadlocked and their deadline one month away, six world powers seeking a nuclear deal with Iran have begun discussing whether to again extend negotiations, according to Western officials.

Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid told a town hall in Tel Aviv on Saturday that relations between Israel and the United States are in a ...

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Defending champions Al Jaish - thanks to the draw - have managed to avoid a meeting with local opponents Lekhwiya and Al Gharafa in the group stage of the ...

Iran and P5+1 international mediation group have achieved some progress on formerly controversial issues, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti Sunday.

Russia has made a number of proposals during the talks between the P5+1 group of mediators and Tehran and hopes for collective work in this direction, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti Sunday.

DUBAI: Iranian security forces arrested world-renowned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and several others on their way back from a protest on Saturday, her husband said. “While returning from the sit-in outside the Bar Association in Tehran, Nasrin was detained along with several friends and colleagues,” her husband, Reza Khandan,...

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Qatar's Minister of Economy and Trade H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani yesterday visited the Islamic Republic of Iran, accompanied by a d...

TJ Lane and Lindsey Bruce, two of three prisoners that escaped from the Allen Correctional Facility on Sept. 11, will not face charges of escape, according to WOHL in Lima.

Reyhaneh Jabbari's execution had been postponed several times since 2009. She was arrested in 2007 over the death of a man who once worked in Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir vowed Saturday to end the sanctions-hit country's isolation, saying recent visits to regional powers Egypt and Saudi Arabia proved that ties were improving, an AFP correspondent said.

European champion Aaron Cook claims -80kg silver at the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Manchester.

Masked gunmen on Saturday shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the restive Kurdish-majority southeast of the country, the army said, blaming separatist "terrorists" for an attack that threatens to unde...

A sudden plunge in the price of oil is sending economic and political shockwaves around the world.

Walnut Hills High School graduate Morgan Dixon is one of the most recent patients to be quarantined in New York, after her fiancée Dr. Craig Spencer, tested positive for the disease Thursday night.

The 13th annual Health Ministry Empowerment tour ends Saturday with an event at St. John's Holistic Wellness Center in Hopkins.

Iran has ranked fourth in the 2014 Asian Para Games in Incheon, South Korea, having collected a total of 120 medals.

A former soldier has been sentenced in Illinois to 15 years in federal prison after being accused of robbing a convenience store.

2014 marks the 59th anniversary of the first microwave ovens made specifically for consumer use.

The Iraqi government claimed to have retaken the flash point town of Jurf al-Sakhar from Islamic State militants.

Spring Valley High School will be hosting the State High School Band Competition and the SC State Championship Finals.

Punishment for sexual assault in Iran: Execution of victim! Iran hangs Reyhaneh Jabbari convicted of murdering former intelligence officer she claimed had tried to sexually assault her.

In this Thursday, July 3, 2014 photo, a member of an elite unit of women Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Among the Kurdish fighters defending the Syrian town of Kobani against the IS are thousands of women.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today released the following statement: "Canada condemns in the strongest possible terms Iran's execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year old interior designer and the latest victim of a murderous regime.

Islamabad, Oct 25 (IANS) Pakistan Saturday welcomed the UN's decision to grant observer status to the Developing-Eight (D-8) Organisation for Economic Cooperation.

Tehran, Oct 25, 2014 (AFP) Iran executed today a 26-year-old woman who had spent five years on death row for the murder of a former intelligence official, defying international pressure to spare her life.

Taipei, Oct 25 (AFP) Taiwan's supreme court has reportedly rejected a bid by Iran to make a Taiwanese bank refund USD 15 million intended for an arms deal that disappeared three decades ago, after it was apparently claimed by three mysterious con artists.