News Archive - 14 May 2016

تسنیم: رئیس فدراسیون وزنه برداری کشورمان گفت: محرومیت مادام‌العمر وزنه برداران المپیکی کذب محض است و صحت ندارد.حسین رضازاده در پاسخ به این سوال که بر اساس گفته‌های علی مرادی دبیر کنفدراسیون آسیایی وزنه‌برداری، وزنه‌برداران المپیکی به دلیل شرکت نکردن در مسابقات جهانی با محرومیت مادام‌العمر روبه‌رو خواهند...

>In its annual report to Congress on Chinese military activities, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday that China is expected to add substantial military infrastructure, including communications and surveillance systems, to artificial islands in the South China Sea this year.China's Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun expressed "strong...

>A complaint would open a new chapter in a long-running legal battle between Europe's central bank (ECB) and groups within the euro zone's biggest economy who want to curb the bank's power.A challenge to an emergency plan the ECB made at the height of the euro zone crisis is...

>HONG KONG/BEIJING China has asked Britain for advice on plans to create a financial super-regulator, as it looks to improve financial oversight following last year's stock market crash, sources with knowledge of the talks told Reuters.The discussions between representatives from China and the UK Foreign Office and Treasury highlight...

>SAN FRANCISCO Warren Buffett struck media gold with a 2012 investment in debt-laden Media General Inc. Now the famed investor may try to reprise that success by supporting a bid for Yahoo Inc's Internet assets.The Berkshire Hathaway Inc chairman is backing a consortium that includes Quicken Loans Inc founder...

>The Times, which said it based the article on more than 50 interviews, quoted women who recounted episodes in which he treated women as sexual objects and made comments about their bodies. But some women said Trump had encouraged them in their careers and promoted them within his businesses, often...

>The leftist president of El Salvador on Saturday added to the regional pressure on Brazil, saying that he would not recognize the interim government and recalled his ambassador, claiming there had been "political manipulation" in Latin America's biggest country.The bickering, not rare between leftist leaders and more conservative governments...

>The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria's five-year-long war, said Islamic State had killed at least 35 members of the Syrian armed forces and detained some medical staff from the hospital.The fighting in and around the hospital also killed at least 24 Islamic State fighters, the...

>The figure is likely to stoke concerns, particularly among growing anti-immigration movements, on the impact of new arrivals on Europe's largest economy which took in more than a million people last year, many from Syria and other war zones.The numbers arriving have fallen this year, helped by a deal...

>BEIRUT Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander, whose death it announced on Friday, was killed in Syria by Sunni Islamist artillery fire and not by an Israeli air strike as one member of the Lebanese Shi'ite movement had said."Investigations have showed that the explosion, which targeted one...

>Greece and its lenders started talks on long-desired debt relief earlier this week as part of a bailout review which has dragged on for months because of a rift between the European Union and the International Monetary Fund over the country's fiscal progress Their aim is to conclude the talks...

>SHANGHAI/BEIJING China's investment, factory output and retail sales all grew more slowly than expected in April, adding to doubts about whether the world's second-largest economy is stabilizing.Growth in factory output cooled to 6 percent in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Saturday, disappointing analysts who expected...