News Archive - 1 August 2015

>The comments from Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's atomic energy agency, are the latest volley in a lengthy battle between Iranian officials supportive of the deal, and hardliners who are skeptical of it.The conservative-dominated parliament in June passed a bill imposing strict conditions on any nuclear deal,...

>The confrontation was one of three in a matter of hours on Friday in which Palestinians died in Israeli-Palestinian violence, making it one of the tensest days in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in recent months.Israeli soldiers fired at the Palestinian after he threw a fire-bomb...

>A Super PAC backing Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton raised $15.6 million in the first six months of the year, according to a report filed on Friday with the Federal Elections Committee.The Priorities USA Action’s haul was dwarfed by the record-shattering $103 million raised by Republican Jeb...

>Biden has said publicly he would make a decision at the end of the summer but the Times said the vice president and his associates were actively exploring getting in the race.The Times, citing several people who have spoken with him and his advisers, said the Biden camp was...

>ADEN, Yemen Yemeni vice president Khaled Bahah arrived in the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, the most senior official from Yemen's exiled government to visit since local fighters drove out the Iranian-backed Houthis.Airport officials said Bahah, who is also prime minister, was accompanied by six ministers when...

>Athens is now in talks with the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund to secure up to 86 billion euros ($94.48 billion) in bailout aid. It will be its third bailout since 2010.Avgi newspaper, which is close to the leftist Syriza government, said Greek authorities expected to...

>BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has governed Germany since 2005, has decided to run for a fourth term and has started planning her 2017 re-election campaign, Der Spiegel news magazine said on Saturday in an unsourced report.Peter Tauber, secretary general of Merkel's Christian Democrat (CDU) party and effectively its...

>DERA ISMAIL KHAN/ PESHAWAR, Pakistan The new Afghan Taliban leader appealed for unity in the insurgency in his first public message released on Saturday amid reports his predecessor's family members opposed his selection. The new head, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, was deputy for several years to the elusive one-eyed former...

>Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC has established a team of about 20 executives to investigate whether there were any problems with how it conducted its audits of Toshiba, the person said.The person spoke on condition of anonymity. No one could be reached at the company's offices in Tokyo on...

>PARIS/KUALA LUMPUR Airplane debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion and may belong to the vanished Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 arrived in France on Saturday for investigators to study its origin. According to a Reuters witness and Agence France Presse, an Air France flight carrying the...

>BEIJING Growth at China's big manufacturing companies unexpectedly stalled in July as demand at home and abroad weakened, an official survey showed on Saturday, reinforcing views that the economy needs more stimulus as it faces fresh risks from a stock market slump.The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) stood at...