News Archive - 13 November 2012

>* Seized cylinders may be usable in missile work* China, South Korea investigating the seizure (Adds details, background)By Louis CharbonneauUNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A shipment of graphite cylinders usable in a missile program and suspected to have come from North Korea were found in May aboard a Chinese...

>* Moscow eyes bigger regional role in Middle EastBy Gabriela BaczynskaMOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russia is expected to urge Saudi Arabia to allow its regional rival Iran to join moves to end the conflict in Syria in a rare high-level meeting on Wednesday between the world's top two oil...

Tehran, Iran — Iran said Tuesday it successfully tested a new air defense system modeled after the U.S. Hawk system during a drill in the country's east. A senior Iranian official called the maneuvers a "slap" to America and Israel.

>* US crude inventories seen higher, products draw down-* Asian stocks, euro steady but U.S., Greek fears linger* Coming Up: U.S. Retail sales Oct; 1330 GMT (Adds technical outlook, comments, updates prices)By Manash GoswamiSINGAPORE, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Brent crude slipped below $108 a barrel on Wednesday,...

>* Violence fuels border tension with Turkey, Iraq, Israel* Humanitarian crisis worsens, 2.5 million uprootedBy Yasmine Saleh and John IrishCAIRO/PARIS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - France became the first European power to recognise Syria's new opposition coalition as the sole representative of its people and said on Tuesday it would...

>Played out against a backdrop of high tension between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear programme, the "Velayat 4" manoeuvres across a vast swathe of the eastern half of the country have focused on air defences.Israel has threatened to strike Iran's nuclear sites if diplomacy and Western sanctions...

Author Stella H. Synowiec-Tobis has woven a tale of hope and survival in “The Fulfillment of Visionary Dream” (PRWeb November 13, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10131234.htm

Economies in the Middle East and North Africa are coping with the aftermath ofthe Arab Spring uprisings and an unstable global environment. Many have boostedfiscal spending to sustain growth and head off popular discontent, putting thegovernment finances of some under pressure, although the budgets of most Gulfoil exporters are still...

Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Nov 13, 2012 Some Israeli lawmakers, including former military chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz, are pressing the government to authorize the assassination of Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip amid an escalation in clashes on the Jewish state's southern border. There's already growing speculation that Israeli...

Russia paroles physicist convicted of spying for China Moscow (AFP) Nov 13, 2012 - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered the release on parole of physicist Valentin Danilov, who was convicted of spying for China in 2004 and sentenced to 14 years in a prison colony, an official said.

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Hillary Clinton has congratulated Australia on its seat on the UN Security Council in opening remarks at the AUSMIN meeting in Perth.

On the eve of the UAE’s 41st National Day, Abu Dhabi will begin the celebrations with one of the country’s most symbolic and fruitful traditions: dates!

Asian champions Japan can move within touching distance of the 2014 World Cup by extending their unbeaten record against Oman on Wednesday, while Iran can leapfrog South Korea in Group A.

A GROUP of protesters are to gather at AUSMIN to call for the US to adopt tough human rights protections in the Arms Trade Treaty.

According to the study, the overall publishing market in the country is estimated to be worth $260 million, with imported English books forming the lion’s share.

A Saudi man who plotted to bomb targets in the US has been sentenced to life in prison.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's talks with the Gillard government have begun in Perth but threaten to be overshadowed by the spiralling sex scandal involving top American military officials.

Australia is not "free-riding" on the US. Instead, we're doing what everyone else, including the US itself, is doing and cutting unnecessary expenditure. Only US contractors lose. Read more on the blog... Read more on the blog... Read more on the blog...

The emerging alliance between Egypt's Mohamed Morsi and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan reflects two Islamist leaders maneuvering to reshape the Middle East. CAIRO — Egypt and Turkey are forging an alliance that showcases two Islamist leaders maneuvering to reshape a Middle East gripped by political upheaval and passionate battles over...

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A Royal Navy submariner who tried to pass on secret information to Russian agents has been remanded in custody after admitting his crime. Related Stories Secret files to be included in Pat Finucane report Vindicated: off-duty PSNI officer right to open fire Dissident threats 'won’t stop community policing' TripAdvisor going...

KUALA LUMPUR (NOV 14): Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB) said it maintains its “underweight” rating on the plantation sector due...

Amid a renewed bombardment by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, Israel's air force has upgraded its Iron Dome counter-rocket system to give it a stronger punch and longer reach to counter the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles.

During China's last party congress, the cadres in charge of the world's most populous nation didn't know a hashtag from a hyperlink. But five years on, there's a new message from Beijing: The political transition will be microblogged.

With the U.S. presidential election over and Syria’s war growing bloodier and spreading, the Obama administration is quietly re-examining its options for involvement in the conflict.

Another Way Home: While visiting their son at summer sleep away camp, middle-aged Jewish parents are compelled to question everything they thought they understood about their children, their marriage, and their true desires. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Through D...

CAIRO, Nov 14 — France became the first European power to recognise Syria’s new opposition coalition as the sole representative of its people and said yesterday it would look into arming rebels against President Bashar al-Assad once they form a government. Twenty months into their bloody uprising against Assad, fragmented...

Petraeus' digital doppelganger holds a post in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 that's now likely out of reach for the flesh and blood general. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) More than a decade in the future, we'll see a still-strapping Secretary of Defense David Petraeus greeting troops aboard the...

Syria and Iran are being accused of jamming news service by BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, and the Voice of America, via radio and satellite, directed at Iran and Syria.

The price of oil slipped to near $ 85 a barrel yesterday as the International Energy Agency lowered its forecast for oil demand and said global supplies were growing.

The questions of who are the 1% and what level of income demarcates the fat cats from the rest of Americans are likely to become more and more polarizing in the coming weeks. What is perhaps the most intriguing is the apparent dichotomy between the demographics (youth - who face...

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A week after winning a second term, President Barack Obama faces a widening scandal within his national security team that complicates plans to reshape his Cabinet and could reverberate through decisions on the war in Afghanistan, the fight against al Qaeda and efforts to prevent Iran from...

PERTH, Australia: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Australia yesterday for annual strategic talks, with Prime [...]

Los Angeles has been a fighting a tide of runaway production of big-budget movies and television dramas.

Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment – nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) CEO, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement Tuesday regarding comments by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Middle Eastern Chief Masood Ahmed, who said that the IMF will send a team to Iran in 2013 for regular consultations regarding its crashing currency:...

Asian champions Japan can move within touching distance of the 2014 football World Cup by extending their unbeaten record against Oman tonight, while Iran can leapfrog South Korea in Group A.

Socceroos coach Holger Osieck says Wednesday's friendly with South Korea in Hwaseong will be a great chance for both nations to see where they stand.

WASHINGTON - The number of students in the United States from China, Iran and Saudi Arabia has risen sharply in the past year, giving a boost to US universities and the economy, a study said Tuesday.

Opposition supporters on Saturday, 4 February, are planning to hold rallies in 14 cities of Krasnodar region. Political events will take place in the framework of the all-Russian campaign “For a life of dignity and fair elections,” the statement says the RF MVD Directorate on Kray.

The 1,001 seat Bahrain National Ampitheatre was built with an Arabian Nights theme.

TROY, N.Y. – Nashua resident Harry E. Miller, a brigadier general in the New York Army National Guard, has been named commander of the guard’s 42nd Infantry Division, according to Army media relations officials. Miller, a former member of the New Hampshire National Guard who served two tours in...

Nancy Bosshard, of Basalt, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1967 to 1969, assists fellow veteran Dan Glidden in lighting the candle at the Vietnam Memorial next to the Pitkin County Courthouse. American soldiers of all U.S. conflicts were remembered during the local Veterans Day ceremony.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - The sex scandal that forced the resignation of CIA chief David Petraeus has not stopped him from achieving greatness in the make-believe world of action videogames.

WASHINGTON — When military officers, foreign correspondents or aid workers go to war, their world suddenly becomes an entirely new one. Nothing that was familiar is so any longer. They find themselves doing things they never before dreamed they would do.

LUCASVILLE, Ohio: Ohio on Tuesday executed a condemned killer who claimed he was innocent of stabbing a woman 138 times, slitting her throat and cutting off her hands.

The fourth Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF), the annual cultural celebration of Doha Film Institute (DFI), is presenting seven films exploring the myriad facets of life as seen through the eyes of children. The festival runs from November 17 to 24.

Though only about five percent of U.S. voters identified foreign policy as the most pressing concern in the recently-concluded presidential elections, the Obama administration is set to face a cocktail of outsized global challenges, ranging from containing the eurozone crisis to coping with China's growing assertiveness amid a...

Republicans went to bed Tuesday night with a sigh of disbelief but the world woke up Wednesday morning breathing a sigh of relief. International surveys showed that people nearly everywhere preferred Obama to Romney, and the exultant post-election commentary from around the world confirms the polling data. The Republican...

The United States is now sending almost all its supplies for the Afghan war through Russia or countries obedient to Moscow. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan would not allow US convoys had Russian President Vladimir Putin not sanctioned it.

Tehran's public prosecutor has announced the arrest of "several people" over the death in detention of blogger Sattar Beheshti, the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

CARMIEL, Israel (AP) — Israel's newest missile defense system, designed to provide another layer of protection against enemy fire, is on schedule for deployment in 2014, defense officials said Tuesday.

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Imperial errors cost US the Middle East Designed to demonstrate the United States' post-Cold War military dominance and create a foothold in the Middle East, nine years later the 2003 Iraq invasion achieved the opposite. The US's biggest error was not drawing from colonial Britain's playbook.

France says it will look into arming rebels once a government is formed.

A condemned killer who claimed he was innocent of stabbing a woman 138 times, slitting her throat and cutting off her hands has been executed in Ohio. Related Stories Storm victims still without power EU finance ministers in bank talks Elephant calf raised by woman dies Driver forced to hold...

Tehran, Nov 14 (IANS) Iran has successfully tested its Hawk missile defence system, a media report said Tuesday.

>By Reihan SalamNEW YORK Nov 13 (Reuters) - Now that President Obama has been reelected, he faces a number of basic questions about the future of America's national security strategy. The most immediate of these concerns how the president will address the deep cuts to defense expenditures that will be...

>"The slogan of this one-day meeting will be 'no to violence, yes to democracy'," IRNA quoted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as saying."Aside from representatives from different ethnic groups, political parties, minorities and the opposition, there will also be representatives from the government at the meeting," Abdollahian added,...

“Tensions between Yerevan and Baku have risen to their highest in years,” Berliner Umschau German media outlet said.

One in five of every attack is "advanced and persistent", says Lockheed Martin VP Chandra McMahon. One of the biggest names in defense claims that hackers are adopting a new tack on infiltrating computer systems. According to Chandra McMahon, VP and Chief Security Officer of Lockheed Martin, cyber-criminals are targeting...

Via Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box, The Day Before   March 15, 44 BC                    Julies Caesar was assassinated December 25, 4 BC                Jesus Christ was born 476 AD                                 Augustulus deposed ending 505 years of the Roman Empire July 16, 622                            Mohammed began writing the Koran December...

Iran has been planning a nuclear bomb since the days the Shah and was "within a year" of having one ready to strike Israel, said the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.

An Iranian lawmaker says the country's parliament has postponed the implementation of a second round of subsidy cuts until 2013 over fears of stoking already rampant inflation.

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>By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Christopher JohnsonLONDON Nov 13 (Reuters) - Iranian oil output rose in October after seven months of decline due to Western sanctions and its exports rebounded strongly as China and South Korea bought more oil, the West' energy watchdog said on Tuesday.The International Energy Agency, adviser...