News Archive - 7 October 2012

غرفه ورزش ۳ روز سوم با آقای جواد خیابانی در روز سوم نمایشگاه در مصلای تهران آقای جواد خیابانی با حضور در غرفه ورزش سه گفتگوی صمیمی با بازدیدکنندگان داشت.

مصاحبه با رضا قوچان نژاد؛ به زبان سرزمین پدری و مادری

>* Long-serving president faces youthful state governor* Capriles taps into discontent over crime, corruption* From Havana to Tehran, vote has implications abroadBy Daniel Wallis and Todd BensonCARACAS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Venezuela's presidential election looked headed for a close finish on Sunday with Hugo Chavez facing an unprecedented challenge to...

>* Syrian rebels seize military post near border* Iranian minister says Assad confident of winningBy Daren ButlerISTANBUL, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey's border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara's warning that it will...

>* He would seek to arm Syrian rebels* Obama campaign fires off sharp responseBy Steve HollandLEXINGTON, Va., Oct 8 (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will vow to pursue a more aggressive policy toward the Middle East on Monday if elected in an attempt to draw a sharp...

>* Chinese bid for oil producer Nexen makes waves in CanadaBy David LjunggrenOTTAWA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Indian companies are lagging behind when it comes to investing in Canada's giant oil sands but could well start making deals within the next five years, Canadian Energy Minister Joe Oliver says.Oliver,...

>* MPs blame rising inflation, collapse of rial* Parliament to question ministers, possibly Ahmadinejad* President offers no solution to rial drop in speech* Money changers refusing to sell dollarsBy Yeganeh TorbatiDUBAI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament voted on Sunday to consider suspending plans for further reform of the country's...

>* Capriles wants to set up Brazil-style government* From Havana to Tehran, vote has big implications abroadBy Daniel Wallis and Todd BensonCARACAS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Venezuelans voted on Sunday with President Hugo Chavez facing the biggest electoral challenge yet to his socialist rule from a young rival tapping into...

Two of China's largest telecom companies disputed the findings of a critical congressional report Monday, saying their products are safe for use in the U.S.

Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez comfortably won his fourth term yesterday, quashing the opposition's best chance at unseating him in 14 years and cementing himself as a dominant figure in modern Latin American history.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ’s re-election will spark bond declines this week as investors sell securities they had bought betting on his defeat, according to Bank of America Corp. (BAC) , which correctly predicted the outcome.

WASHINGTON, Oct 8, 2012 (AFP) -A leading US Republican lawmaker accused Hugo Chavez Sunday of tightening his grip on power through manipulation and harassment after the Venezuelan leader was elected for another six-year term.

After 14 years in power in which he has survived a coup and a bout with cancer, the indefatigable Hugo Chavez can still whip adoring crowds into a f...

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is proposing the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria, put conditions on aid to Egypt and tighten sanctions on Iran as he looks to use a planned foreign policy address to paint President Barack Obama as a weak leader who has limited...

KOTA KINABALU -- Felda Sahabat has repaired 1,300 homes of poor families in Sabah while another 300 more will be completed by year-end, said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Ahmad Maslan last night.

Replicating a meeting of the Principals Committee—the team the president relies on for recommendations about matters of the highest importance—the simulation sought to answer what might happen if the Israelis strike Iran before the November election?

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Mitt Romney on Monday will accuse the Obama administration of fundamentally misunderstanding the threat of radical Islam, using a major foreign-policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute to say President Obama is rejecting six decades of bipartisan consensus by not flexing more U.S. muscle...

The new Ben Affleck movie, “Argo,” begins in November, 1979, with the storming of the American Embassy in Tehran. A crowd breaks into the compound, taking more than fifty Americans hostage. Six escape through the back of the building and take refuge in the residence of the Canadian . . .

Will America get pulled into another Mideast war? We hosted a ‘war game’ with former U.S. officials to find out.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won the presidential elections Sunday with a comfortable margin beating his young challenger Henrique Capriles and extending his 14 years of rule to another six-year term.

>By Harichandan Arakali and Raju GopalakrishnanBANGALORE Oct 8 (Reuters) - Shopping in a U.S. department store? Surveillance cameras may be watching, and not because you might be a shoplifter.In minutes, video of which aisles you visited, what products you picked up and put down, what you bought and...

>* Germany industrial orders fall in August* US unemployment rate drops to lowest since Obama took office* Turkey retaliates against Syria bombing for 5th day (Updates prices)By Florence TanSINGAPORE, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Brent crude slipped below $112 per barrel on Monday, dropping for a second straight session on concerns...

A JURY has found an Indonesian man guilty of people smuggling though he was little more than "hired help" and said he had been tricked.

Damian Lewis was confronted by a drunken man in Charlotte, North Carolina, over his role as a terrorist in the hit show Homeland

TEHRAN, IRAN — In a bid to ease international concerns over its nuclear program, Iran has converted more than a third of Tehran’s most highly enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research reactor that is difficult to reprocess for weapons production, experts and U.N. monitors say.

Hugo Chávez promises to increase production and reduce dependence on US market by doubling crude exports to Asia While giant rallies in Caracas may be drawing the world's attention ahead of tomorrow's Venezuelan presidential election, the global significance of the vote can be found hundreds of miles to the east...

Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, says Britain wants to increase pressure as public dissent in Tehran could halt regime's 'mad' nuclear scheme The international community should tighten the noose on Tehran to the point of threatening the Iranian regime's survival if it does not relinquish its "mad" nuclear ambitions, the...

CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez's re-election on Sunday means Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA will remain highly politicized and will continue its discount supply deals with his socialist allies. Related Stories Slide halted, Romney challenging Obama in swing states Ivory Coast to reopen border with Ghana following two-week closure...

By Mark Green Already there have been three October Surprises, at least numerically: 7.8 percent; $181 million; and Romney posing as Mr. 100 Percent not Mr. 1 Percent. Arianna and Nicolle Wallace (communications aide to W and McCain, played by Sarah Paulson in Game Change) discuss whether a...

ARMED Forces runners Noor Imran Hadi and S. Komalam Shally completed a sprint double at the Malaysian Open yesterday but the men's 200m final was marred by three late withdrawals at the National Sports Council mini stadium in Bukit Jalil.

WASHINGTON — American companies should avoid doing business with China's two leading technology firms because they pose a national security threat to the United States, the House Intelligence Committee is warning in a report to be issued Monday.

American companies should avoid doing business with China's two leading technology firms because they pose a national security threat to the United States, the House Intelligence Committee is warning in a report to be issued Monday.The...

I DO not know to what extent Turkish officials understand how much damage the Arab world suffered from Syria’s actions. But I am sure they are more qualified than others at calculating their own interests and they know that they have an important role to play that is not over...

There were moments of tension and an exciting finale – but the big question was how Carrie would get back into the game SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for people watching the second series of Homeland on Channel 4. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode one – and...

Sheikh Ahmad Assir said over the weekend that he will hold weekly peaceful demonstrations around the country until Hezbollah surrenders its arms to the Lebanese Army.

Davutoglu has floated Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa as a possible leader of a future Syrian transition government to replace President Bashar Assad.

Indian companies are lagging behind when it comes to investing in Canada’s giant oilsands but could well start making deals within the next five years, Canadian Energy Minister Joe Oliver says.

Children's Day is celebrated annually in Iran on Mehr 16 (October 7). Following photos by Syed Madyar Shojaeifar show the children in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran.

Israeli warplanes swooped low over Lebanese villages Sunday in a menacing show of force apparently aimed at the Hezbollah guerrilla group after a mysterious raid by an unmanned aircraft that was shot out of Israeli skies over the weekend.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Just as Iran's currency was rattling near bottom after a stunning free fall, officials...

In 2002, a group of Iranian-American students studying abroad made a wild and exaggerated observation: Iranians are everywhere. Of course, we didn't mean on TV or in the movies. We meant that all of a sudden, Iranians seemed to be everywhere we went. -Amy Malek

Germany's finance minister is keeping the pressure on Greece to implement reforms and spending cuts before a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a first-person documentary aired on his 60th birthday that the current generation of opposition leaders needs to be cast aside.

Three people remain hospitalized after the Canadian tour bus they were riding in overturned on a New Jersey interstate exit ramp this weekend, injuring nearly two dozen people overall.

Israel's military says it has fired on two Gaza members of an al-Qaida-inspired group identified as having been involved in rocket attacks and an infiltration from Egypt. Palestinians say one man was killed.

If America ever bans guns, this is what every patriot will be packing....

President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Friday by telephone, ending the call with a common pledge to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon but no apparent consensus on a specific timeline to do so. According to a summary of the roughly 20-minute call released by...

DUBAI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Gasoline production capacity atIran's Shazand oil refinery is set to double to around 16million litres per day in late 2012, making it the largest inthe country, Iran's oil ministry news website reported onSunday. The expansion project to increase gasoline productioncapacity by 8 million litres a...

Is it not appalling that the so-called “democracies” are going about smashing countries, destroying lives, killing men, women and children in cold blood and with total immunity?

We like to think we are a leading force in Asia, culturally and diplomatically. We might be kidding ourselves.

>DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar, a major supporter of Syrian rebels, urged them on Sunday not to kill Iranians seized two months ago near Damascus, after the captors threatened to start killing their 48 prisoners. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim al-Thani made the appeal following a request from Iran,...

Cairo (dpa) - Seven Iranian medics have been released in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi after they were kidnapped by gunmen more than two months ago, Libyan media reported on Sunday."There were no signs indicating that they have been mistreated or tortured," Qais al-Fakhry, an official in the...

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix from pole on Sunday to close within four points of the Formula One championship lead as series leader Fernando Alonso crashed out of the race at the first turn.

The price of gasoline rose to an all-time high in California and is expected to continue climbing before leveling off later this week.

By United Press International UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012.

Iran's parliament has abandoned its planned impeachment of a Cabinet minister over the free-fall of the country's currency.

Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich (KAY'-sik) surprised Latinos gathered for a diversity event in Columbus by delivering her speech in Spanish. More >>

Chicken With Plums is not a thoroughly delectable concoction, but its exotic flavor is worth sampling.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian officials Saturday dismissed a New York Times report saying Iran had offered a "nine-step plan" for resolving a standoff with the United States and its allies over its disputed nuclear program, calling the report "baseless."