News Archive - 8 April 2013

Interview with U-23 coach Mansourian after Qatar Tournament 2013

R.I.P Sincerest condolences to our national legend Mahdavikia and his beloved family.

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>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force has designated six cyber tools as weapons, which should help the programs compete for increasingly scarce dollars in the Pentagon budget, an Air Force official said on Monday. Lieutenant General John Hyten, vice commander of Air Force...

>BRUSSELS, April 8 (Reuters) - World powers believe talks with Iran over its contentious nuclear programme have been substantial enough for diplomacy to continue, a senior Western diplomat said on Monday, days after a meeting in Kazakhstan failed to yield a breakthrough."There is enough substance for these negotiations to...

>That first commercial flight, from Cairo to Tehran, took off on March 30 in the latest step towards normalising ties broken after the 1979 Iranian revolution, when Egypt gave sanctuary to the deposed shah of Iran.But hardline Sunni Islamists who accuse Iran of trying to spread the Shi'ite faith...

>* Iran, North Korean issues remain in focus* Coming Up: API weekly crude stocks; 2030 GMTBy Ramya VenugopalCHENNAI, India, April 9 (Reuters) - Brent crude futures rose above $105 per barrel on Tuesday after data showed China's inflation in March was slower than expected, giving its central bank room to...

The following is by the Iron Sheik, as told to Bleacher Report. Several terms have been changed to make the interview suitable for posting. --- Who watch the WrestleMania on the Sunday night? I see the show…I love the show. I watch the show with the Jerry Brisco and the...

Indochina’s entertainment and gaming industry leaders NagaWorld will renew their Davis Cup partnership with the Cambodian national tennis squad heading to Myanmar at the end of this month for their Asia Oceania Group III campaign.

TEHRAN, Iran (UPDATE) - Iran, under international sanctions for its nuclear enrichment program, on Tuesday, April 9, launched a new uranium production facility and began operations in two uranium extraction mines, state media said. The two mines in the city of Saghand in central Iran operate 350 meters (1,150 feet)...

Crude-oil futures rise, with weakness in the U.S. dollar and benign inflation data from China allowing the commodity to build on earlier price gains prompted by supply worries.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will pay a first visit to Israel since taking office later this month to bolster the allies' cooperation in the Middle East, an Israeli official told Reuters on Tuesday.        

Sharmistha Mukherjee, the fiercely independent daughter of the President of India, would rather not have her life and her father's official position cross paths.

The new mines act will tighten supervision of mines and on coal companies outsourcing labourers in the restricted area, Union minister of state for Labour and Employment K Suresh said today.

Hakkari is in one of the most distant and neglected corners of the country. But the Kurdish area has produced a team without parallel

The North African region has played a decisive role over the past few years in shaping global political agendas. It is the birthplace of the Arab Spring (Tunisia) and the region often most affected by Islamist terrorist groups in the wider MENA area.

Several weeks ago, HR Ashton, EU foreign policy chief, announced that she will be done at the end of her mandate in 2014. In an interview – posted below – orchestrated by Steven Erlanger, Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, and organized by the German Marshall Fund, ...

The World Trade Centre Accra has appointed Mr Emmanuel Doni-Kwame as its first Managing Director, effective April 2, 2013. Prior to his appointment, Mr Doni-Kwame was the UNIDO SPX Executive Manager.

DUBAI, April 9 (Reuters) - Here are factors that may affectMiddle East stock markets on Tuesday. Reuters has not verifiedthe press reports and does not vouch for their accuracy. ...

The so-called “father of the Islamic nuclear bomb" says he does not think the North Koreans are "trigger happy" in an exclusive interview with Fox News. 

U.S. crude oil futures remained close to $93.50 a barrel on Tuesday, with investors shifting their attention to Chinese inflation data.

Margaret Thatcher was not just a political titan, she was a cultural icon

TOKYO, April 9 (Bernama) -- Japan has resumed deliberations to remove its self-imposed ban on exercising the right to collective self-defence, a policy goal long pursued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's Jiji Press reported.

It looks like Colin MacKenzie won’t have to keep buying milk and bread. The owner of Charman’s Home Hardware Building Centre in Wallace has taken to stocking basic grocery items ever since the community’s gas station and...

No longer the fantasy weapon of tomorrow, the U.S. Navy is set to field a powerful laser that can protect its ships by blasting targets with high-intensity light beams.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair offered a sobering, almost grim conclusion to his half-hour of prepared remarks at Lafayette College on Monday afternoon, telling the crowd of about 1,600 that for today's world leaders, "the decisions are tough and the choices are ugly." Such an unvarnished assessment is...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A bus driver died and nine students were injured Monday when a school bus went off a road and lodged in an embankment in northern New Mexico, authorities said Monday.

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Marcello Lippi's Guangzhou Evergrande can ease into the last 16 with room to spare this week as they press their bid to become the AFC Champions League's first Chinese winners.

Although the Obama Administration has proclaimed its intention to “pivot” toward Asia, Secretary of State John Kerry has been forced to pivot back to the Middle East in advance of his forthcoming trip to Asia. Kerry was originally slated to travel to South Korea, Japan, and China following the April...

North Korea suspended its sole remaining major project with the South on Monday, after weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea.

SEOUL, South Korea — A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North’s...

She had a clear vision and a blunt way of expressing it, and for 11 years as British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher wasn?t afraid to dispense tart advice to successive… Click to Continue »

NEW YORK: Oil prices edged higher on Monday, lifted by gains in gasoline futures and strong selling of the spread between Brent crude and US crude.

The United States has once again threatened the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear energy program.

"Iron Lady" Thatcher mourned, but critics speak out LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and admirers worldwide are mourning Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, as the "Iron Lady" who rolled back the state and faced down her enemies during 11 years as Britain's first woman prime minister. Her impact on...

 The U.S. Navy announced Monday that it is preparing to deploy a new weapon that can disable a hostile boat and even destroy a surveillance drone overhead -- all without dispensing any expensive ammunition.

Japanese stock futures rose, indicating the Nikkei 225 Stock Average (NKY) will climb for a fifth day, amid speculation Bank of Japan (8301) measures to fight deflation will boost corporate profits.

Regulation of the Internet will be the subject of a timely panel discussion on April 24 at the National Press Club. WASHINGTON, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just over a week ahead of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee and the...

When the phone rang at the bar of a Brussels restaurant in 1991, it was extraordinary -- not just because the president of the United States was on the other end, but because the message being delivered by George H.W. Bush flouted more than 200 years of tradition when...

The following is a forward I wrote for a new report by Physicians for Human Rights on Solitary Confinement in the US Detention System. Sitting in a nearly empty cell -- a metal sink, the blank stare of the white walls, fluorescent lights that never turn off -- all...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The failure of negotiations between six world powers and Iran over its disputed nuclear program has jumpstarted the congressional push for even tougher sanctions aimed at crippling the economy in Tehran .

The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Monday his agency could not rule out the possibility that Iran was actively seeking nuclear weapons technology, citing intelligence on suspicious research by Iranian scientists that occurred as recently as a few years ago. Read full article

Indonesian Ambassador Dian Wirengjurit and the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina Emir Hadzikadunic have travelled across Iran to take the photos for the joint exhibit, which has been entitled " Iran : East and West Perspectives".

TEHRAN , Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV reports that a Saudi diplomat has been banned from leaving Iran after he was involved in a fatal car crash.        

TEHRAN , April 8 (UPI) -- Calls for Iran to suspend or stop its nuclear enrichment program are a "red line" that multiparty negotiators shouldn't cross, an Iranian official said Monday.

>* U.S. fighter jet crashes into Arabian Sea, crew unharmedDUBAI, April 8 (Reuters) - The United States and its allies will stage a naval exercise in the Gulf in May to practise minesweeping and escorting ships, the U.S. Navy said on Monday, a manoeuvre likely to be seen...

Does the United States or Israel really need Turkey's help with Syria or Hamas, which controls Gaza, or are we simply offering Ankara a path back to relevance and responsibility? Turkey has nearly come to blows with all sides in Syria's civil war, and has forcefully retaliated against cross-border...

TEHRAN , April 8 (Bernama) -- Fifteen new dams will be inaugurated across Iran by the end of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, Iran 's IRNA News Agency quoted Managing Director of Iran Water Resources Management Company Mohammad Haj-Rasouliha as saying.

TEHRAN , Iran (AP) — A senior lawmaker says Iran will keep open the prospect of withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and will seriously consider it if the West intensifies sanctions or refers the case to the U.N. Security Council.

>BAGHDAD, April 8 (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities searched an Iranian jet on route to Syria on Monday but found only medical equipment, officials said, in the first inspection since Washington pressed Baghdad to help stop Tehran flying arms to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.Checking Iranian flights is a politically delicate...

Iran and world powers have failed to agree on how to reduce fears Tehran might make nuclear weapons.        

TALKS between world powers and Iran to find a solution to end tensions over the Iranian nuclear drive have once again hit an impasse, even if the diplomatic process is not yet seen to be at risk of collapsing.Negotiators from world powers came to the snow-peaked city of Almaty...