News Archive - 28 April 2012

Iranian wrestlers Parviz Hadi and Habibollah Akhlaghi on Saturday managed to win gold medals of the 2012 Olympic Games qualifying competitions in China to earn tickets for the London games. Hadi defeated his Japanese, Albanian and Finnish rivals to win a gold medal in the 120 kg category of the...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the sanctions imposed against Iran’s banking system violate the charter of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and are aimed at smothering Iran's economy. “I think that the banking system situation breaches the IMF Charter, which demands that all of IMF member states ensure uninterrupted...

Russian president Special Envoy in Middle East Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov and IRI ambassador to Moscow Reza Sajjadi in a meeting called for non-interfering in Syrian domestic affairs. Bogdanov and Sajjadi in a meeting here on Saturday discussed situation in the Middle East, especially in Syria. The two sides underlined necessity...

a symphony was played on Saturday to honor Persian Gulf history in a second Persian Gulf International Art and Culture Festival and on National Day of Persian Gulf. The symphony called 'Persian Gulf' was composed by Sayyed Ahmad Padash and was played in Martyr Avini Hall in port city of...

A conference will be held on Sunday on the history and developments of Persian Gulf as part of a major national festival in honor of a like-named calendar day. Scientific personalities from Iran and abroad will speak to the conference about the international waterway and its role in global development.

Director of International Affairs for the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Mohsen Ghamsari says China and India are still major importers of Iranian crude. Quoted by Oil and Energy Website, Ghamsari said a major part of oil sale contracts has been concluded with China and India. He said, 'The two...

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has discussed regional international developments, particularly support for armed terrorist gangs operating in Syria, with Qatari Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. During a meeting in the capital Riyadh on Friday, King Abdullah and Sheikh Tamim exchanged viewpoints on the latest...

>Gill Tudor, spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the meeting would take place on May 14-15 at the Iranian diplomatic mission in Vienna."The purpose is to continue the negotiations started early this year," Tudor said in an email.She was commenting on a report on Friday...

A top Iranian official has slammed the terrorist activities of the armed groups in Syria, saying the countries that provide weaponry to the rebels are responsible for the deaths of innocent Syrians. On Friday, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian condemned the terrorist attacks as...

>JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country's leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program because of what he called the "messianic feelings" behind their threats to launch a pre-emptive war on Iran. Other veterans have come out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister...

Audiences consider play to be return of serious art to nation

I'm very curious what others think. My answer is that I do not think people should vote in the other party's primary for the sole reason of trying to have their candidate face an "easier" candidate . . .

Preparing For Martial Law? OBAMA Signs Executive Order Allowing Control Over All US Resources http://www.examiner.com On March 16th, . . .

MARIETTA — A number of Lockheed Martin-built F-22 Raptors have been deployed to the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, near Iran, signaling escalating concerns by U.S. officials over Iran’s n...

President Obama is in the midst of a media development for aggressive military action against Syria. It reminds me a little of bold monkeys or baboons becoming more aggressive little by little until . . .

Here are some things that you should know about me, Rick Santorum. I was born in Virgin- ia but was raised in Butler, PA which is 35 miles north of Pittsburg (the Paris of the Ohio River Basin). . . .

An Iranian Foreign Ministry official says the Obama administration's offer to consider allowing limited uranium enrichment 'would be a good start.' TEHRAN — Iranian officials expressed skepticism Saturday about possible Obama administration support for allowing the country to continue enriching some uranium but said it could be a good...

An interesting article came across the twitter timeline when I was searching tweets related to ‘ Iran ’ with the title of ‘ Netanyahu 1992: Iran will have the Bomb by 1997 ’. . . .

Its get-tough approach with the Palestinians, and now with Iran, is lauded by some. Others warn that Israel's foreign policy will come back to haunt it. JERUSALEM — The traditional Passover retelling of Exodus was barely underway in 2002 when Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer got a note with news of...

BEIJING - Local and overseas activists said Saturday, April 28, that the U.S. and Chinese governments were locked in delicate diplomatic negotiations over the fate of Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer who fled from house arrest last Sunday and is thought to be in Beijing under U.S. protection.

JERUSALEM - The recently retired chief of Israel's internal security agency accused the government of "misleading the public" about the likely effectiveness of an aerial strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, ratcheting up the criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak from the country's security establishment.

TEHRAN, April 28 (UPI) -- Obama administration officials say they may support dropping a demand that Iran halt uranium enrichment if Tehran agrees to other restrictions.

WASHINGTON - Last year President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doc ...

A NEW round of talks between Tehran and the United Nations nuclear agency will be held in Vienna on May 13-14, Iran's state TV reported yesterday in a signal of possible progress after separate negotiations resumed with world powers over the country's controversial nuclear program.

WASHINGTON: The United States is embarking on two weeks of intense diplomacy on Asia as it seeks to rekindle friendly ties with Japan and India while managing an often fractious relationship with China.

The man who has exposed forced abortions and sterilizations flees as the U.S. is looking for China's help.

CHAMPAIGN — As president of the respected Sony Pictures Classics, Michael Barker attends the Academy Awards ceremony every year. He's noticed that the category of best foreign film is highly competitive and the nominees are wary of each other. read more

Sri Lanka petroleum industries minister has said that the upgradation of country’s sole refinery, now designed to use mainly Iranian light crude, will cost more than $500mn.

ChinaAid says blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under the protection of US officials in Beijing.

PM and defence chief not fit to lead Israel and are misleading the public over Iran, warns former Shin Bet boss Yuval Diskin Israel's former security chief has censured the country's "messianic" political leadership for talking up the prospects of a military stike on Iran's nuclear programme. In unusually candid...

KABUL _ Turban bombs had become too obvious. So the two men who apparently set out Saturday to assassinate Kandahar's governor looked to their footwear instead. The assailants used the unusual tactic of concealing weapons and explosives in their boots to make their way past police checkpoints and into the...

Muslim majority nation can help promote a more modern, moderate version of Islam

These pictures show some of the only Asiatic lions left on Earth which roam freely in a forest in India. Taken by award-winning wildlife photographer Uri Golman they show the rare species in their natural environment in the Gir Forest in the western state of Gujarat.

The eurozone is facing a "perfect political storm" as millions of Europeans are given an opportunity to vote on the austerity policies that have helped plunge the single currency back into recession.

Shakespeare was the name they gave to Phil Davis when he was a teenager from an Essex council estate with dreams of becoming a serious actor. The comparison with the bard was no kind of compliment.

Chevron's profit up despite production dip Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:50 p.m., Friday, April 27, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO - Rising oil prices during this year's first quarter helped Chevron Corp. overcome a dip...

Fitch Ratings this week affirmed Israel's high long-term foreign and local currency ratings at 'A' and 'A +' respectively, declaring the country's outlook as stable despite ongoing tensions with Iran.

A busybody's work is never done. Nick Yates, spokesman for North Somerset Council, last week informed the world: "Our case officer has assessed the complaint, as has a colleague, and they are satisfied that the noise is a clear statutory noise nuisance." To what can he have been referring?...

I never wanted to be a sex symbol I wanted to be a character actor. Those are the actors I mostly admire. I think women that are curvy can be pigeonholed in that bombshell thing. It's not like I actively look for sexy roles. It's not a requirement that my...

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The former head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency has accused the country's political leaders of exaggerating the effectiveness of a possible military attack on Iran, in a striking indication of Israel's turmoil over how to deal with the Iranian nuclear program.

Sudan's official news agency says the military arrested three foreigners, and a South Sudanese soldier in a disputed region along the southern border where violence between the two neighbors has spiked in recent weeks.

The escape from house arrest of a blind Chinese rights lawyer will complicate Obama's talks with leaders there next week, says Dan Levin.

Authorities say an inmate in Georgia gave birth to a child in her jail cell and the baby later died at a hospital.

Authorities said they have dug up human remains in the backyard of a southern Indiana man who is suspected of killing two women a decade apart.

Derrick Rose was playing like an MVP again, and then, he was writhing on the floor, clutching his left knee. Just like that, a big cloud formed over the Bulls.

Tehran Police have begun a new round of patrolling against "inappropriate attire" in public, the head of the force announced. The Mehr News Agency quoted Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia saying: "Confronting bad forms of dressing will be carried out in two parts: producers and importers on one hand and consumers...

“Romeo and Juliet’s” story line of a doomed cross-sectarian love affair manages to touch on nearly every element of the recent collective Iraqi experience.

Bandar Seri Begawan - The European Union (EU) has offered to strengthen the Asean Secretariat with a staff exchange programme and vowed to continue to help Asean reach its overall regional integration targets with two new cooperation programmes, namely the Asean Regional Integration Support by the EU (ARISE) and Regional...

Bandar Seri Begawan - Asean and the European Union (EU) will explore potential areas of relevance in disaster management and emergency response within Asean.

A United Nations-backed plan has failed to stop the fighting in Syria, but supporters still hope for a chance to organize the opposition, sway Russia and prevent an all-out civil war.

BEIJING — A blind legal activist escaped house arrest in his Chinese village for American officials' protection, activists said Saturday, creating a diplomatic dilemma for the U.S. and Beijing days ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Chen Guangcheng, who has exposed forced abortions and...

Less than a week before annual U.S.-Chinese diplomatic and economic talks, relations between the powers risked sharply deteriorating Saturday with an escaped Chinese activist reportedly under American protection and a U.S. fighter jet sale to Taiwan now being considered.

Mitt Romney’s roadmap for governing the country is so vague that it has even Republican allies questioning his intentions.  

TEHRAN, April 28 (MNA) – The Ahmadinejad government intends to free up prices suddenly but the society cannot tolerate such a sharp rise because there is already a high inflation and the first stage of the subsidy reform plan, which started in December 2011 was not implemented properly, says the...

TEHRAN, April 28 (MNA) – Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, a leading member of the Assembly of Experts, has said that if the deviationists avail themselves of an opportunity to disseminate their ideas, they are much more dangerous than seditionists.

According to police, an abandoned van containing a device with 600 pounds of explosives was found in Northern Ireland late this week may be linked to IRA groups.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia closed its Cairo embassy Saturday and recalled its ambassador following protests over a detained Egyptian human rights lawyer.

Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine and Commerce Mehdi Ghazanfari says the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Islamic Republic and Syria is set to be implemented.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's deputy foreign minister says Gulf Arab states must seek full integration of key affairs such as diplomacy and defense to counter perceived threats including Iran's nuclear ambitions and Arab Spring spillover.

The United States has deployed a number of stealth jets, its most modern fighter bomber, to an air base in Southwest Asia, according to the Air Force.

BISSAU (AFP) - Guinea-Bissau's coup leaders released the country's ousted prime minister and interim president on Friday after more than two weeks of captivity, allowing the former leaders to travel to Ivory Coast. Related Stories UN nuclear watchdog to resume Iran talks in mid-May Teheran police in new dress code...

DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine (AFP) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was on Saturday expected to visit the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk rocked by a series of explosions that injured 26 people ahead of the Euro 2012 football tournament. Related Stories UN nuclear watchdog to resume Iran talks in mid-May Teheran police in...

DAMASCUS (AFP) - A veteran Norwegian peacekeeper headed to Damascus on Saturday to take charge of a United Nations (UN) mission overseeing a troubled truce, a day after a deadly suicide bombing fuelled scepticism over its prospects. Related Stories UN nuclear watchdog to resume Iran talks in mid-May Teheran police...

JERUSALEM — The former chief of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency has described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak as men driven by “messianic feelings” and said he had “no faith” in them to lead a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Read full article >>

LONDON 2012 (AFP) - Another person was most likely involved in the death of a British spy whose decomposing body was found padlocked in a hold-all, an expert told the inquest into his death on Friday. Related Stories UN nuclear watchdog to resume Iran talks in mid-May Teheran police in...

TEHRAN (AFP) - Police in Teheran are conducting a new crackdown on women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in 'vulgar' dress, the city's police chief said, according to media reports on Saturday. Related Stories UN nuclear watchdog to resume Iran talks in mid-May Ukraine's president to visit blast scene amid...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's "pivot" to China's neighborhood and the "reset" in relations with Russia have produced limited results for signature foreign policy initiatives designed to improved America's standing with its former Cold War rivals.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the Western proponents of capitalism for provoking the existing economic crisis across Europe and America. This crisis has been caused as a result of the performance of those who advocate the use of force as well as capitalists; the ordinary people have had...

Oil rises above $104 after US supplies drop Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 06:49 a.m., Wednesday, April 25, 2012 LONDON (AP) — Oil prices rose above $104 a barrel Wednesday after a report showed...

Israel's former security chief Yuval Diskin on Saturday accused top ministers of misleading the public about the chances any preemptive military action against Iran's nuclear facilities succeeding.

Sino-Russian cooperation in the energy sector will expand beyond the traditional oil and gas arena as economic ties between the two countries continue to grow closer, industry experts said.

A blind legal activist who fled house arrest in his rural China village is under the protection of U.S. officials and high-level talks are taking place between the countries about his fate, an overseas activist group said Saturday.

TEHRAN, April 28 (MNA) - Iran will resume talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency on May 13-14, the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA says.

ISLAMABAD and#8212; Pakistani authorities deported Osama bin Laden's three widows and his children to Saudi Arabia early today, less than a week before the first anniversary of the unilateral American raid that killed the al-Qaida leader in his hideout in a military town.

China has denounced the Western embargoes against Iran as “ineffective” and underscored the importance of dialog as the best channel to resolve the Western dispute over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

US Navy, Air Force, ground, intelligence and special forces units based at home, in Europe and the Middle East, took part this week in a special exercise ordered by President Barack Obama to simulate reactions to a potential US-Israel strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, debka file ’s exclusive military and...

In what would be a significant concession, Obama administration officials say they could support allowing Iran to maintain a crucial element of its disputed nuclear program if Tehran took other major steps to curb its ability to develop a nuclear bomb.

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