News Archive - 12 April 2014

>DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday rejected a U.S. decision to deny a visa for its newly appointed ambassador to the United Nations, pledging to take up the case directly with the world body in a dispute that has reopened old wounds dating to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The...

ALTHOUGH the world attention is focused today on a new ‘Cold War’ in Europe, it is in Asia that the prospects of global peace and prosperity will be determined. Asia is now the world’s most economically dynamic region.

Stepping into a heated debate within the nation's intelligence agencies, President Barack Obama has decided that when the National Security Agency discovers major flaws in Internet security, it should...

IT WAS the day that changed this traveller forever. But his initial trepidation turned to joy because of the true nature of the locals. It’s also one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Today is Sunday, April 20, the 110th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1534 - Elizabeth Barton, the Maid of Kent, is executed in England with five of her associates for criticizing...

US art symposium denied two key speakers because of US visa restrictions, while artworks prevented from leaving country Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Sohrab. Iran's own superman stands in front of Tehran's famous Azadi Square, the site of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution as...

LATAKIA, Syria (Reuters) - For three years, residents of Syria's Mediterranean provinces have watched from their coastal sanctuary as civil war raging further inland tore the country apart, killing tens of thousands of people and devastating historic cities.

Bahrain has experienced unrest over past three years by majority Shi'ite Muslims        

>MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Conservative Republican Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz tested the 2016 presidential waters at an event on Saturday in the influential state of New Hampshire at which potential opponents from the more moderate wing of the party did not appear. The "Freedom Summit" rally was...