News Archive - 13 August 2016

(Photo: Mashhad Friday prayers' leader Ahmad Alamolhoda.)   One week before the anniversary of the notorious 1953 CIA-led coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq, Friday prayers' sermonizers across the country warned their audience about the hidden threats of optimistic détente with the United States.   "Americans have...

>FAIRFIELD, Conn. U.S. Republican Donald Trump on Saturday repeated his attack on President Barack Obama that he helped "found" Islamic State and railed against media reports that his campaign is failing, at a campaign rally in Connecticut, a state where he has a long-shot of being victorious. Speaking for...

>SYDNEY German tech entrepreneur and alleged internet pirate Kim Dotcom will seek a review of a Federal Court decision which rejected his bid to keep hold of millions of dollars in assets held in Hong Kong and New Zealand, his lawyer said.A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.

>WASHINGTON U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday she has been flooded with "obscene and sick" calls and text messages after a hacker linked to Russia posted personal contact information online for her and hundreds of other Democratic lawmakers and aides.Pelosi sent a letter to colleagues...

>Andy Haldane said the Monetary Policy Committee was under no illusions that it could fully insulate Britain from the long-term effects of June's Brexit vote, in an opinion piece published in the Sunday Times newspaper.His comments chime with a consensus among economists that Britain's government will need to unveil...

>TORONTO Canadian telecom companies are rushing to secure cheap money to fund acquisitions and big infrastructure projects as their reliance on customer appetite for internet services grows. Take Canada's BCE Inc, better known to its millions of internet and telephone customers as Bell, which this week raised C$1.5 billion...

>BEIRUT Thousands of displaced residents streamed back into the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Saturday after U.S.-backed fighters ousted the last Islamic State militants from their former stronghold, residents and U.S. allies said.The U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Friday they had...

>ZURICH Six people were injured in an attack aboard a Swiss train on Saturday by a man armed with a knife and flammable fluid, St Gallen cantonal police said.Three adults, two teenagers and a child aged six were hurt, according to a police statement. Five were stabbed or burned.

>HAVANA Fidel Castro thanked Cubans for their tributes to mark his 90th birthday on Saturday in a meandering column carried by state-run media in which the iconic leftist revolutionary also lambasted old foe United States.Cuba went into overdrive this month honoring the retired "El Comandante" who spearheaded its 1959...

>Prime Minister Binali Yildirim made his comments to a group of Turkish journalists who quoted him as saying that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden would visit Turkey on August 24.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would also visit Turkey some time in October, he said."The main...

>The IMF said on Thursday it had agreed in principle a three-year facility to support comprehensive government reforms.But the deal is subject to final approval by the IMF executive committee, and disbursement is linked to progress on a variety of reforms. They include subsidy cuts, the introduction of value...

>More than one million migrants flooded into Germany last year, and the government wants to get as many as possible into the job market, which would reduce their dependence on the state and compensate for labor shortages as the workforce ages.Merkel will push reluctant German companies to offer more...

>CODY, Wyo. Former Vice President Dick Cheney's eldest daughter, bouncing back from an aborted 2014 U.S. Senate bid, heads into a crowded primary race next week for Wyoming's lone seat in the House of Representatives buoyed by big-name Republicans and wealthy out-of-state donors.Liz Cheney, the apparent Republican front-runner,...

>BANGKOK/HUA HIN, Thailand The Thai political party whose governments have been overthrown by the country's ruling generals denied on Saturday having any role in the bomb attacks on popular tourist destinations that killed four people and wounded dozens.The blasts on Thursday and Friday in five of southern Thailand's internationally...

>U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called on Ankara this week to uphold the rights of detainees held since the July 15-16 abortive putsch.Authorities have suspended, detained or begun investigating tens of thousands of soldiers, police, judges, journalists and civil servants.Turkish foreign ministry...

>Scientists, farmers and other recipients of EU funding had been facing uncertainty after Britain voted to leave the EU on June 23, before receiving reassurance on Saturday that the UK government would pick up the tab.The new guarantee over funding comes as Britain faces the looming prospect of a...

> The announcement comes two days after President Vladimir Putin promised to take counter-measures after what he said were clashes between Russian forces and Ukrainian saboteurs in northern Crimea. Ukraine denies the clashes took place. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. (Reporting by Polina Devitt; Writing by Maria Tsvetkova;...