News Archive - 29 March 2014

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre has little to show to the world after 10 years in power. But just a few weeks before India goes to a crucial national election, the Manmohan Singh government has made a

Follow live coverage of the build-up to the president's annual policy address Tom McCarthy

Carry cash, take the metro and always look at people's feet – our blogger of the week Araz Fazaeli, who documents street style at the amazing Tehran Times , offers his tips about how to make the most of the Iranian capital How long have you lived in your city?...

Brazil's Arena da Baixada World Cup stadium officially reopened Saturday after more than two years of construction work. The stadium's first World Cup test event saw Atletico Paranaense draw 0-0 with J. Malucelli in Brazil's Parana-state league, reported Xinhua.

Ohio's governor pays special attention to the reigning GOP mega-donor in a Las Vegas meeting.

This is a sure sign of America's future decline in power politics. It is up to the reader to determine whether this is for better or worse.

President concluded a three-day west coast tour tapping wealthy film executives like Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks Studios Rory Carroll

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 04:09:01 GMT Valley News Dartmouth College announced this week that it offered acceptance letters to 2,220 of the nearly 19,300 students who applied to attend the Ivy League institution starting this fall. In a news release Friday, the college said that its admissions office not...

COLUMBUS, Ohio --Our withdrawals from Iraq, and now imminently from Afghanistan, are not the reason that we find ourselves dealing with governments in both these countries that are not doing as we think they should. We are learning the hard lesson that while our military can remove an existing government,...

>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has selected a new ambassador to represent Tehran at the United Nations, Hamid Abutalebi, a veteran diplomat who has held key European postings in the past, Iranian sources said. Abutalebi, who has served as Iran's ambassador to Italy, Belgium and Australia, was...

Out on campaign trail, there are few doubts about who Erdogan has in mind when he vows to ‘liquidate’ his foes. Embroiled in political turmoil, Turkey's leader has declared war on a shadowy enemy, a Muslim cleric he accuses of running a parallel "deep state" from faraway rural Pennsylvania.

Ukrainian businessman and politician Petro Poroshenko (2nd L) and US Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd R) shake hands as the head of the Ukrainian UDAR (Punch) party Vitali Klitschko (L) and Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk look on prior to a meeting during the Munich Security Conference at the...

FOR a man who saw mass killings in the streets of Iran as a teenager, the prospect of rebuilding the Titans doesn’t overawe Anshuman Magazine .

Washington, March 29 (IANS): In a bid to isolate Russia over its annexation of Crimea, the US says it is talking with Moscow's friends like India and China, but it has not yet asked them to impose any sanctions.

Killing of Iranian soldier condemned by Pakistan

Istanbul (AFP) - Embroiled in political turmoil, Turkey's leader has declared war on a shadowy enemy, a Muslim cleric he accuses of running a parallel "deep state" from faraway rural Pennsylvania.

President Obama will make a quick visit to Chicago next week. Wednesday, he’ll attend several Democratic National Committee activities following a morning stop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Overnight, President Obama wrapped up his visit Saudi Arabia where met with Saudi …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- President Obama honored a domestic-violence and child-abuse advocate here Saturday, giving attention to human rights struggles in Saudi Arabia before bringing to a close an overseas trip to Europe and the desert kingdom that was largely dominated by the crisis in Ukraine.