News Archive - 27 May 2014

>MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Novatek, Russia's largest independent gas producer, sees no chance of winning the right to pipe gas to Europe in the near term despite getting government approval to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). Novatek and rival Rosneft last year won the right to export LNG,...

>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It started with hactivists defacing websites and a e-mails pointing users to links that stole data. Soon, Ragnar Rattas and his team of Estonian computer security experts were battling the heaviest and most sophisticated cyber attacks they had ever encountered.     As the situation worsened, they...

>* Eastern Libya oil rebel rejects new government* Iran: powers want "too much" in nuclear talks, hurdles surmountable* Brent crude may retrace to $109.41 -technicalsBy Manash GoswamiSINGAPORE, May 27 (Reuters) - Brent crude rose towards $111 per barrel on Tuesday amid supply disruption worries as Ukraine launched air strikes...

>The case underscores the growing struggle between moderate Iranian president Hassan Rouhani's drive to increase Internet freedoms and demands by the conservative judiciary for tighter controls.The Iranian court in the southern province of Fars opened the cases against the social networks after citizens complained of breaches of privacy."According...

>Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona-Virus (MERS) causes coughing, fever and sometimes fatal pneumonia, killing an estimated 30 percent of those who are infected. There is no vaccine or specific treatment for MERS, which has killed more than 175 people in Saudi Arabia and spread throughout the region, also reaching as...

>BRUSSELS May 27 (Reuters) - The next round of talks between six world powers and Iran on resolving a dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme will be held in Vienna from June 16 to 20, the European Union said on Tuesday.EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton held "very long and...

>* Fertility issue divides conservatives and reformists* Concerns raised about sexual health, position of womenBy Michelle MoghtaderDUBAI, May 27 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader has called for a population increase, in an edict likely to restrict access to contraception that critics fear could damage women's rights and public health.In...

>VIENNA (Reuters) - After months of delays, Iran appears to be finalizing a plant to convert a large amount of low-enriched uranium gas into an oxide form that would be less suitable for processing into nuclear bomb material, a U.N. watchdog report shows. Under last year's landmark accord with...