News Archive - 10 January 2015

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran and Venezuela vowed Saturday to work together to stabilize falling global oil prices as Iran's supreme leader accused "enemies" of using crude prices as a political weapon. With Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by his side, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged OPEC

>President Nicholas Maduro is on a tour of fellow OPEC countries to lobby for higher oil prices, which hit new lows last week below $50 per barrel, nearly half of what they were back in June 2014.The plunge in crude prices has pummelled the public finances of Iran and...

Theo AFP, ngày 10/1, Tổng thống Iran Hassan Rouhani cùng người đồng cấp Venezuela Nicolas Maduro đã cam kết "vô hiệu hóa" mối đe dọa của việc giá dầu sụt giảm đối với cả 2 nước.

Travel changes you. Anyone who's been overseas for an extended period would understand this.

 Birthday boy Wang Dalei's penalty stop helped China upset Saudi Arabia 1-0 as a string of top saves made all the difference at the Asian Cup on Saturday.

Washington, Jan 11 (IANS): British Prime Minister David Cameron will pay a two-day visit to the US next week to discuss a range of issues of common concern with President Barack Obama, the White House announced.

The Tea Board has asked industry to boost exports which were suffering due to price arbitrage in the domestic market, an industry official said.

Updated at 10 p.m. EST (0300 UTC).

Five weeks after being charged in a Tehran court, Jason Rezaian, The Washington Post’s journalist imprisoned in Iran, still does not know the exact nature ...

Some 30 endangered Asian wild asses have been spotted in the Chinese prairies that neighbor Mongolia, local forestry police told Xinhua Sunday.

North Dakota's top oil regulator told lawmakers Thursday that there's a "little bit of gloom but no doom" for the state's petroleum industry.

David Cameron will push for stronger UK-US collaboration on cyber-security when he visits Washington for talks with President Barack Obama on Thursday.

Fred Lambert NINEVEH, Iraq, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Several Kurdish fighters are among the dead in the most recent Islamic State attacks in northern Iraq near the Sinjar Mountians.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reacts to the blustery weather on arrival in Munich, Germany on Saturday Jan. 10, 2015. Kerry was to meet Sultan Qaboos of Oman in Munich before traveling on to India. (AP Photo/Rick Wilking.

The ECC also imposed 15pc regulatory duty on steel products – billets, bars and wire rods, and 5pc on cold-rolled coils and galvanised platted sheets to protect local manufacturers.

SINGAPORE: The detention of a Singaporean in Batam since October last year, has been further extended.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will have meetings with President Barack Obama next week during a two-day visit to Washington, the White House said on Saturday. Cameron and Obama will have a working dinner on Jan. 15 and a meeting in the Oval Office the following day,...

Before last month, most Americans thought very little about cyberwarfare. But when North Korea attacked Sony Pictures for daring to mock its leader Kim Jong-un ...

Wednesday's attack on journalists at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has shone a spotlight on the dangers faced by satirists around the world.

A very effective example of the cartoonist's art (though here a photoshop of a photograph and a cartoon).

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When the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan, attacked a school brimming with children last month, everyone thought it was the lowest form of attack any terrorist group would adopt. Over 150 innocent, budding lives were snuffed out by the terrorists inside the school compound. However, in the...

If there is any individual in contemporary Nigeria whose life has given ample justification for the folk saying (recently made popular by his own dear wife, Mrs Patience Jonathan) “There is God o”, that person must be President Goodluck Jonathan. He is named “Goodluck” and he has indeed been lucky...

SERI ISKANDAR: Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) was the overall champion of the 3rd Chem-E Car Competition 2014, held in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Illinois Governor-Elect Bruce Rauner announced part of his administration team on Saturday.

Reuters sports schedule at 0001 GMT on Sunday: - - - - NFL Divisional round Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots Ravens hope to spring another upset at Patriots The Baltimore Ravens, who have twice beaten the New England Patriots in the playoffs since 2000, go for another victory over...

OK, you win. We surrender. Never thought I'd say that, but then, I never thought I'd see gunmen burst into the offices of a satirical magazine as happened last Wednesday in Paris.

>Republican lawmakers said on Thursday they are close to reintroducing legislation seeking a voice in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and to impose tougher sanctions against Iran, now that they control both houses of the U.S. Congress.Senator Mark Kirk told reporters at the Capitol he expected the Senate...

Defense companies don?t want to look too keen, even as Abe tries to return Japan to a ?normal? footing.

North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven says Keystone oil pipeline would assist America's economy, foreign policy

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to meet with Iran’s foreign minister about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and to encourage expanded American-Indian business ties during travels to South Asia and Europe. Kerry first made a brief stop Saturday in Munich, Germany, to meet with Oman’s ailing...

Cartels sound unsavoury, suggesting drug kingpins or despotic rulers of oil kingdoms. They are, in fact, illegal within the US and most developed economies.

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — A tail section from the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea late last month, killing all 162 people on board, became the first major wreckage lifted off the ocean floor Saturday, but the all-important black boxes were not found inside. The red metal...

MUNICH — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stopped briefly in Germany on Saturday to meet with the ailing ruler of Oman, the Mideast country that's served an important intermediary role in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. Kerry, headed to India for an international conference, met for about 90...

Sylvie Beghal, the wife of terrorist Djamel Beghal who mentored two of the Paris gunmen, lives in a taxpayer-funded four-bedroom house in Leicester.