News Archive - 14 April 2014

>A scan revealed ligament damage after Gago suffered a hard knock during Boca's 0-0 draw at Colon in Santa Fe in the Argentine first division on Sunday."The midfielder suffered a grade two sprain in his left knee, with partial lesion of the collateral medial ligament," Boca said on their...

The United States is not locked in a Cold War with Russia, the White House has said asserting that the situation and ground realities are now quite different from those of the earlier era.

• Top-secret documents detail repeated efforts to crack Tor • Tool funded by US government and relied on by dissidents and activists • Core security of network remains intact but NSA has some success attacking users' computers The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people...

Iran steps up pace of executions as it courts West

Russia's defense spending increased by 4.8 percent last year and has increased more than a third under a military modernization program undertaken after the 2008 Georgia war.

The fictionalised story of presidential butler Eugene Allen is an earnest but novel take on 20th-century African American history • More from the Reel history archive The Butler (2013) Director: Lee Daniels Entertainment grade: C– History grade: D Eugene Allen served as a butler in the White House through eight...

Ali Akbar Salehi says new generation of centrifuges on way in comments to placate hardline critics of world nuclear deal The head of Iran's atomic energy agency had said the country is building a new generation of centrifuges for uranium enrichment but need further tests before they can be mass-produced,...

* U.S. crude stocks seen up by 1.8 mln barrels -poll * Iran says exporting just 1 mln b/d, much less than IEA estimates By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - Brent crude futures dropped below $109 a barrel following a surge to a six-week high in...

>Hamid Abutalebi has said that he acted only as a translator during the 444-day crisis when radical Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage.Foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham was quoted by IRNA as saying that the issue had been "referred to the...

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This is what the modern American war room looks like: the clocks on the wall show the times in Kabul, Tehran and Bogota. The faces around the conference table are mostly young. There is talk of targets, and of middle-of-the-night calls to Europe. But the meeting one...

Iran has decided not to send warships to the Atlantic Ocean after all, a dramatic change of heart from a much-ballyhooed announcement weeks ago to send several fighting vessels to the region — the nation's historical first. Fars news agency quoted navy chief, Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari, as downplaying the ...

A political commentator says the comments made by Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz and US Secretary of State John Kerry about Iran were “outrageous.”

A cereal commercial intended to tout the health benefits of Cheerios, instead sparked a debate about the interracial family featured in the ad. But for an Iowa State University marketing professor the family in the ad represented a change that is long overdue.

Meddling by the United States and its allies has led to the spread of terrorism and created crises in the region, Chairman of Iran’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi says.

CALGARY - RCMP have charged an Alberta company for shipping a product to Iran that could be used in nuclear applications. Lee Specialties Ltd. of Red Deer faces charges under the Special Economic Measures Act, the Customs Act and the United Nations Act. Police say the investigation began three years...

>* Official says Twitter earns $35 million in Turkey* Twitter's business structure criticisedBy Orhan CoskunISTANBUL, April 14 (Reuters) - Turkey urged executives from Twitter to open an office and start paying Turkish tax on Monday in the first direct talks since a two-week ban imposed on the site as the...

>VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States and three European allies want a global body controlling nuclear exports to consider whether to establish closer ties with non-members including Israel, despite its assumed atomic arsenal, a confidential document showed. The issue is sensitive as Israel is outside a 1970 international pact designed...

>JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is holding secret talks with some Arab states that do not recognize it, looking to establish diplomatic ties based on a common fear of Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday. Amongst the countries he was in contact with were Saudi Arabia and Kuwait,...

>Iran and Russia have been discussing various ways of increasing bilateral trade, including Moscow possibly taking up to 500,000 barrels a day of Iranian oil in exchange for Russian goods that Iran needs.Washington says such a deal would go against the terms of the interim nuclear deal between world...