News Archive - 13 November 2014

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers tried to force a vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday on a bill to impose tough new sanctions on Iran if negotiators do not reach what they see as an acceptable nuclear deal, but the measure failed to move ahead. U.S. Senators...

>* New styles disrupt local music scene* Songs' subjects stick to traditional themesBy Michelle MoghtaderDUBAI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Behzad Omrani grew up in Tehran, in a house ringing to the sounds of his father's record collection - mostly the twangs and twirls of American Country & Western.Years later...

>LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi's first comments in months on the oil market left other OPEC delegates scratching their heads over whether he will support calls for an output cut when the producer group meets in two weeks, with crude prices sinking. Naimi, sometimes dubbed the "Alan...

>BAGHDAD (Reuters) - After Iraqi sniper Ali al-Tulaibawi returned from his training on the battlefields of Syria his commander sent him on a months-long mission to shoot Islamic State militants from the towers of Iraq's biggest oil refinery. Tulaibawi says he is one of the 150 Shi'ite militiamen who, along...

>"I hope that we will be able to achieve an agreement but there are still key questions to resolve," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said at a news conference with Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni."I can't make any predictions at this time. I think it will only be on the...

By Brenda Goh

The Udon Thani Immigration Office has identified 193 foreign men who have faked their marriage with Thai women to be eligible for one-year resident visa

It's the latest landmark on Singapore's already busy skyline and at a cost of a billion dollars hopes to leave an indelible mark.

In an effort to reduce nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama said in a 2009 speech in Prague: "So today, I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."

Oliver fits back into an old role quite well read more

American political commentator Daniel Patrick Welch says President Barack Obama shows that it is not important who sits in the Oval Office after he signed a state of emergency against Iran.

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I WAS honoured to launch the ‘Crescent Moon Exhibition: the Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand’ at the University of Malaya Library yesterday.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced Thursday that the remains discovered in August 2012 near a gravel path were those of Fatemah Norouzy-Pooresfahany, who may have used the name Sara Norouzy in Canada

Well-acted, earnest and a bit of a slog, “Rose­water” marks the feature-film writing/­directing debut of faux-journalist/satirist/­comedian Jon Stewart. Frankly, my dear, I hoped it would be funnier (and better).

And a winter wonderland it was, sparkling with Baccarat candelabra, chandeliers and rock crystal appointments at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica. The Czarina, tagged as she was by the Moscow and Leningrad hoteliers during her autumn holiday thereabouts (prefers being called Babushka), was in a joy-to-the-world mood for a...

It only took a few months for crude oil prices to slide to their lowest levels in four years. It could take more than a year for them to rebound, industry as prices continued to decline.

Remarks With Jordanian Foreign Minister Judeh After Their Meeting Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amman, Jordan November 13, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER JUDEH: (Via interpreter) In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful. At the outset, I would like to welcome a friend...

Today is Friday, November 21, the 325th day of 2014. There are 40 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1620 - The Mayflower ship, carrying the first permanent European settlers to New England, lands in what...

The levels of diplomatic activity, fear and even desperation regarding Iran’s steadily advancing nuclear-weapons program are rising rapidly in the White House. The same is true for Israel and America’s...

GLOBAL unity against imperialist aggression is at the core of the international resolution to be debated at this weekend’s Communist Party congress.

EDITORS:These are among the top sports events of the week. Coverage of most of these events will move on this circuit:thru 16, London " tennis, ATP World Tour Finals.Various sites " football: Euro 2016 qualifiers: Scotland vs....

Ukraine, Iran's nukes, the price of oil: There are ties worthy of a Bourne film, if the media connected the dots

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The United Nations will need months to repair about a hundred of its facilities, torn down as a result of Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, the organization’s humanitarian and emergency chief Valerie Amos said late on Sunday, as quoted by Reuters.

On November 17 at 7:30 pm, journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari’s new documentary film, To Light a Candle, will be screened in the Cyprus Room of The Carter Center, 453 Freedom Parkway NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 (PRWeb November 13, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/11/prweb12319536.htm

Homicide investigators say human remains found off a foot path in North Vancouver two years ago are those of Sara Norouzy, who may have been the victim of foul play. Today, the Lower Mainland's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed that the victim is 31–year–old Fatemah Norouzy–Pooresfahany, who also went by the name Sara Norouzy.

Two months into its campaign against the Islamic State, the White House may be rethinking its strategy.

*** (out of four) Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal isn't Iranian. "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart previously had neither written nor directed a feature film. But "Rosewater," Stewart's filmmaking debut that stars an effective Bernal as real-life Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, gets a lot more right than it does...

A ploy to soften up Russia and Iran might inflict collateral damage on its own shale industry.

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite its low ARPU, the wireless M2M market has become a key focus of many mobile network operators as their traditional voice and data markets become saturated. Likewise, government and regulatory initiatives such as the EU initiatives to have a...

"Extra's" Hilaria Baldwin caught up with Jon Stewart and talked with him about his directorial debut, "Rosewater," along with his predictions on who will run for president in 2016.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - High-profile Korean businessman and football administrator Chung Mong-gyu is running for a spot on FIFA's powerful executive committee in a bid to help Asia increase its World Cup representation and fulfill its global potential. The 52-year-old Chung hopes to follow in the footsteps ...

The Princeton University Chapel was a melting pot of religions on Sunday as crowds of people of all different faiths united in the name of one shared goal: peace.

When asked about how he reacted to learning that one of his Daily Show satires was used as evidence to torture a journalist in Iran, Jon Stewart says, "I might have uttered the phrase: 'Are you — with some profane adjective — are you kidding me?' " "It's so...

The PM stood up to Putin, but had the rug pulled from under him by Obama and Xi.

Nov. 13, 2014, 10:55 a.m. Barack Obama’s coming request for Congress to “right-size and update” the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against terrorism will be constitutionally fastidious and will catalyze a debate that will illuminate Republican fissures.

November 13, 2014 - Fredericton - Today, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced that the founders of Ara Labs Security Solutions are the latest successful applicants for permanent residence through the Start-up Visa Program.

This month's meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on oil production could well be its most important in years, but speculation is growing that the biggest members won't agree on how to curb surplus global output and revive oil prices.

Despite the fact that Islamic State leaders have their eyes set on expanding the caliphate outside of Iraq and Syria, a recent poll surveying respondents from seven Arab nations and refugees in Syria found that ISIS is overwhelmingly unpopular among people there.

itwbennett writes A U.S. court has quashed an attempt to seize Iran's, Syria's and North Korea's domains as part of a lawsuit against those countries' governments. The plaintiffs in the case wanted to seize the domains after they successfully sued Iran, Syria and North Korea as state sponsors of...

>Once again, the perilous situation of the Kurds -- this time attacked by Islamic State fighters -- has spurred the United States and its allies in Europe and the Gulf to use military force in Iraq and Syria.And once again the Kurds -- who number up to 30 million...

Oil prices have dipped below 80 US dollars a barrel for the first time in four years, boosting hopes for cheaper petrol on UK forecourts.

That's according to the guys over at Capital Economics: they'd been expecting a drop in the oil price but they didn't think it would fall to $80 per barrel (as it did yesterday and today) until 2016. So they're...

This Monday, an audience of 50-odd members in a South Mumbai gathering witnessed history in the making. Certainly for the first time in India and probably across the world, a mass media campaign was being unveiled to produce more babies. Yes, human babies.

Nearly three years after Yemen ousted a decades-old dictatorship and began a political transition aimed at preventing civil war, the fragile nation is once again on the brink of disaster.

See how the newly-created city compares to the real Burmese streets.

Political analyst Michael Burns says Israel is expending all its resources in the United States to disrupt President Barack Obama’s efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran.

A farmer digs through a pile of grain near Zhovtneve village, in the region of Chernigov, some 220km north of Kyiv on Aug. 11, 2009. © AFP The political conflict in Ukraine remains at the top of the concerns among participants at the Global Grain Geneva conference underway in the...

>More than 100 officers took part in the operation - codenamed "Damascus" - in five central Bosnian towns including the capital Sarajevo.In April, the country introduced jail terms of up to 10 years for Bosnians who fight or recruit for groups abroad such as Islamic State. Hundreds are thought...

>* Nine-month operating profit down 31 percent* Shares down 3.4 pct, top faller among European utilities (Recasts, adds details from source, background on Ukraine)By Christoph Steitz and Karolin SchapsFRANKFURT/LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The risk the Ukraine crisis poses for European companies was highlighted when German utility RWE said...

>"It is not completely ruled out that more time could be needed to reach a mutually beneficial compromise," he was quoted as saying.The agreement is meant to assure the West that Iran's nuclear programme would not be used for military ends in return for a possible easing of sanctions...

>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) now estimates that Iran's holding of low-enriched uranium gas is 8,290 kg, 100 kg less than it had said in a confidential report last week, diplomats said on Thursday.There was no explanation of why the initial figure was wrong, or the significance of...

The review is a tacit admission that the strategy of confronting ISIS in Iraq and Syria without also focusing on the removal of President Bashar al-Assad was a miscalculation.

Ghoncheh Ghavami, from Shepherds Bush, London, has already spent nearly five months in jail, but now Revolutionary Guards are intent on charging her with endangering national security.

Cartoon Network allegedly censors attempts by writers on its hit show ‘ Clarence’ to feature a full-on kiss on the lips between two gay characters.

Andurand Capital Mgmt LLP Founder Pierre Andurand, who started the $290 million commodities fund in February 2013 wrote, “Iranian oil production should increase.”

EnglishEl Consejo de Regentes de la Universidad de California anunciaron recientemente que considerará un nuevo plan de cinco años para una matrícula baja y predecible que proporcionará fondos para aumentar el acceso a los estudiantes de California, mantener el robusto...

ZHUHAI: China's new stealth jet fighter rocketed skywards Wednesday as Beijing puts on an unprecedented display of openness -- and military force -- at the country's premier airshow.

In the wake of its decision to sideline its controversial lead pastor, Seattle-based mega-church Mars Hill announced this week that it would be dissolving its network of churches in Washington, Oregon, California and New Mexico.

Closer ties between Israel and the Arab world could help in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.