News Archive - 22 October 2016

(Friday prayers' interim leader in Tehran Kazem Seddighi. Source: Saeid Rabiei/YJC)   This week, Friday prayers' leaders across the country warned about compromise with Imperialism, i.e. the United States, analyzed the situation in Iraq on the threshold of operation to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Daesh/ISIS...

Thursday, 29th of Mehr – October 20th, 2016 HEADLINES OF IRAN’S MORNING PAPERS   KAYHAN   -Supreme Leader: Enemy’s main objective is to halt Iran’s scientific movement In his address to thousands of scientifically talented youth, the Supreme Leader of Iran stated that the main objective of the enemy...

>NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY Martin Werner, co-head of Goldman Sachs' investment banking business in Latin America, will depart the Wall Street bank at the end of this year, according to a person familiar with the situation.Werner, who also runs Goldman's investment banking business in Mexico, told the Mexico office last...

>"The public and political debate at the moment is taking us in the wrong direction," the Observer newspaper quoted him as saying. (Reporting by Stephen Addison; editing by Andrew Roche)...

>NEW YORK AT&T Inc (T.N) is set to announce as early as Saturday an $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N), sources familiar with the matter said, giving the telecom company control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted...

>GETTSYBURG, Pa. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised on Saturday to foil a proposed deal for AT&T Inc to buy Time Warner Inc if he wins the Nov. 8 election, arguing it was an example of a "power structure" rigged against both him and voters. Trump listed his...

>MOGADISHU Somali pirates have freed 26 Asian sailors held captive in a small fishing village for more than four years since their ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean, a government official said on Saturday.The sailors -- from China, the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan -- were seized...

>"Today with (Azeri) President Ilham Aliyev we talked about reaching agreements between OPEC and countries that are not members of the cartel. We are very close to reaching agreements and signing a relevant deal," Azertag quoted Maduro as saying in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital city."I believe that the relevant agreement...

>NEW YORK Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton maintained her commanding lead in the race to win the Electoral College and claim the U.S. presidency, according to the latest States of the Nation project results released on Saturday.In the last week, there has been little movement. Clinton leads Donald Trump...

>Three crew members and 16 passengers died when the Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter came down late on Friday in adverse weather conditions. Two survivors were injured and a third unscathed, TASS news agency reported, citing a regional health official. The helicopter was carrying employees of a contractor from oil major Rosneft's...

>SANAA/NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia Saudi-backed government forces and Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen accused each other of violating a ceasefire on Saturday as the United Nations tried to extend the three-day truce.The ceasefire, due to end at midnight local time on Saturday, is aimed at paving the way for talks to...

>In an interview with Finnish public broadcaster YLE, Wahlroos confirmed he had recently discussed a possible merger with representatives from the Dutch finance ministry and the Netherlands Financial Investments (NLFI), the state agency that holds a majority of ABN shares."It was a very preliminary contact ... at the moment it...

>The substance arrived through the mail at Clinton's campaign office in Manhattan, and was transported to the headquarters in Brooklyn Heights, police said.The floor was evacuated as a precaution, and several people were exposed to the substance. A New York City Police Department spokesman said police were still investigating...

>It is the first final verdict against Mursi on charges arising from the killing of protesters during demonstrations in 2012. Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, faces charges in other cases including leaking secrets to Qatar, conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to destabilize Egypt, and organizing a jailbreak...

>MANILA The United States remains the "closest friend" of the Philippines but Manila wants to break away from a "mindset of dependency and subservience" and forge closer ties with other nations, the Philippine foreign minister said on Saturday.The comments by Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay came two days after...

>NAYPYITAW Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday made a pitch to foreign investors, promising a clearer legal framework and opportunities in untapped economic sectors, two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama lifted most sanctions on the country.Since taking power in April, Suu Kyi has been criticized...

>In a rare interview, Hans Michel Piech and Wolfgang Porsche pledged support for VW chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch and chief executive Matthias Mueller, and said they would stay out of daily operational affairs at Germany's biggest carmaker.The two families had clashed when Ferdinand Piech was his family's representative on...

>Trump’s outline - which he will deliver in a speech in the historic town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - will cover his plans for boosting Americans' economic and physical security and contrast them with those of Democrat Hillary Clinton, campaign aides told reporters on Friday.Clinton published a book of her...

>No Syrian or Russian air strikes on the eastern rebel-held side of Aleppo, Syria's most populous pre-war city, have been reported since Russia began the pause in hostilities on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.But rebels have said they cannot accept the ceasefire, which they say does...

>King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s death on Oct. 13 has thrown the country of 67 million into mourning. It has also led to the rise of ultra-royalist vigilante groups who say they will punish anyone perceived to have insulted the monarchy during a highly sensitive time for Thailand.Deputy Prime Minister Prajin...

>Police escorted dozens of shoppers out of the Cora mall after assailants burst into the store on Saturday morning in an apparent robbery attempt, national news agency Belga reported.There were conflicting reports on the number of assailants, with RTL News citing the police commissioner as saying several gunmen were...

>QAYYARA, Iraq The Iraqi army on Saturday stormed a Christian town that had been under control of Islamic State since 2014 as part of U.S.-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq.The advance took place as U.S. Defense...