News Archive - 27 September 2012

>"At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs and that's by placing a clear red line on Iran's nuclear weapons program," Netanyahu said in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly. "Red lines don't lead to war; red lines prevent...

Remember the one about the kid who killed his parents and then pleaded to the judge for leniency because he was an orphan? Now that's the ultimate chutzpah, you say. But then, you probably have not been following the tale of those foreign policy experts who despite being proven...

Search our Archives! Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Palestinian and Jordanian that Washington is 'looking at every means possible' to alleviate the Palestinian financial crisis.

Rep. Shelley Berkley ended her speech at a recent gathering of union members and retirees here by bringing up a potentially risky subject - her husband, Dr. Larry Lehrner.

Seismologists are reporting two aftershocks of a strong earthquake that rattled Alaska's sparsely populated western Aleutian Islands.

By The Associated Press Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance more than 30 years ago has been the stuff of urban legend, prompting numerous theories about what happened to the former Teamsters leader.

Stocks advanced and the euro recovered from two-week lows on Thursday after the Spanish government said it would cut spending sharply and opened the door for a potential European bailout.

THR's chief film critic chats with the director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the fest, who's stepping down after 25 years. read more

While Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was pissing off Western leaders or chilling in his fancy hotel suite , members of his staff have been... sightseeing and shopping at Payless Shoes, Duane Reace and Costco. A source told the Daily News ,"Since they are under sanctions, they can’t get this stuff.

Investigators have charged a federal inmate in the 2005 killing of his fiancee's 5-year-old daughter in Iowa.

In his United Nations speech Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red line on an illustration of a bomb with a lit fuse, using the graphic to give an easy-to-understand picture of the threat he sees from Iran's atomic program. It's not the first time the United Nations has...

>* U.S. gasoline futures hit highest since April* Coming up: U.S. Oct fuel futures contracts expire Friday (Recasts, updates trading)By Robert Gibbons and Adam KerlinNEW YORK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Oil rose on Thursday as tensions between Iran and the West stoked concerns about supplies, while refinery maintenance...

>PARIS/HAMBURG (Reuters) - Iran's state grains agency GTC has discreetly snapped up around 1 million metric tonnes (1.1 tons) of milling wheat in the past 2 weeks mostly from the European Union, traders said on Thursday, showing increased ability to import food despite financial sanctions. Iran has in the...

>Details of the internal report were published on the same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to address the United Nations to push his case for tougher action to halt Iran's contested nuclear programme.An Israeli official, who declined to be named, confirmed the contents of the...

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>New York police said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was verbally abused, pushed and shoved by "anti-regime" protesters on the street as he walked a few blocks from the headquarters of the United Nations on Wednesday.He became separated from members of his party traveling by car in a...

>VIENNA (Reuters) - Would Israel discreetly warn U.N. nuclear chief Yukiya Amano so that he could withdraw his inspectors before any air raid on Iran, as the United States did in a dramatic night-time phone call to his predecessor just before the 2003 war in Iraq? With persistent speculation...