News Archive - 19 August 2014

>BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents posted a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley and images of another U.S. journalist whose life they said depended on how the United States acts in Iraq. The video, titled "A Message To America," presented President...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the US's “targeted discrimination” against African Americans after an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by the US police and protests over the killing were met with a heavy crackdown.

>U.S. foes Iran and Syria also lambasted the United States, but while they are frequent critics of Washington, it is unusual for Egypt to criticize such a major donor. It was not immediately clear why Egypt would issue such a statement.Ties between Washington and Cairo were strained after...

>DUBAI (Reuters) - Poet Simin Behbahani, a champion of women's rights and free speech whose lyrical verse captured the hopes and disappointments of Iranians since the 1979 revolution, died on Tuesday at the age of 87, official media reported. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, she earned the unofficial...

>* Large amount of suspect transactions came from HK and UAE* Bank "accepts responsibility for and regrets the deficiencies" (Adds Hong Kong Monetary Authority statement paragraphs 11-12)By Jonathan Stempel and Steve SlaterNEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) - British banking company Standard Chartered Plc will pay a $300 million penalty and...

>Hundreds of thousands have fled their homes since fighters led by the militant Islamic State group swept through much of the north and west of Iraq in June, threatening to break up the country.A four-day airlift of tents and other goods will begin on Wednesday to Arbil, Iraq from...

>BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces launched an offensive on Tuesday to drive Islamic State fighters out of Tikrit, home town of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, while the militants warned they would attack Americans "in any place". In Geneva, the United Nations refugee agency announced a major aid operation to get...

MANILA, Philippines--An Iranian national arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation on the request of the US Department of Justice after he was indicted in a US court for being part of a conspiracy to smuggle to Iran about 20 tons of specialized steel "with nuclear applications" died Monday evening...

SEASIDE >> Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta bemoaned American isolationism and broke down threats to the country Tuesday for 26 new interns at his institute.

A photo shows revolution march in Islamabad.— AFP file photo KARACHI: The ‘revolutionary’ demonstrations that have besieged Islamabad over the past few days have thrown up a wide variety of references, imagery and metaphors.

The office is now just one of a few nationwide to provide free legal representation to undocumented immigrants who can't afford to hire their own attorney. by Ali Winston Immigration court is different. There is no public courthouse.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this...

Scores of horrifying images continued circulating, despite the social media company's efforts.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale, hit the Iran-Iraq border region today, according to the Meteorological Department.

Islamic State insurgents have posted a video on purportedly showing the beheading of US journalist James Foley and images of another US journalist whose life they said depended on how the United States acts in Iraq. read more

Facebook is adding a "satire" tag to certain posts from the Onion and other humorous websites.

Bank to suspend certain high-risk clearing activity

The Times’s foreign editor, Joseph Kahn, responded to reader complaints.

TEHRAN, Iran >> A Washington Post reporter and two other journalists detained last month are being held over "security issues," Iran's judiciary spokesman said Monday, offering the first official indication on why they are being held.

Today is Wednesday, August 27, the 239th day of 2014. There are 126 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1789 - French National Assembly adopts Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming...

For years, many news reporters, journalists, and networks have stood against the government because the government is supposedly limiting and controlling the truth. Freedom of the press has always been thought to be attacked. For example, many conservatives believe Fox News is the only news network not controlled by liberal...

Simin Behebani, whose poetry was quoted by Barack Obama, has died aged 87. But her work lives on.

Last week, we were told there were 40,000 Yazidis on Sinjar Mountain facing starvation if they remained there, and slaughter by ISIS if they came down. But a team of Marines and Special Forces that helicoptered in has reported back that, with a corridor off the mountain opened up by...

The United Nations said Tuesday it is launching a major aid response in Iraq, sending in material via air, land and sea to help tens of thousands of refugees fleeing extremist violence in northern Iraq. According to the UN, Iraq's humanitarian challenges are "immense." The organization plans to deliver...

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The protests and allegations of human rights abuses in Ferguson have led to claims of hypocrisy from those the US tries to police abroad. How does the rest of the world feel?

The government’s much-touted electronic visa initiative appears to have fallen prey to the “inter-departmental’’ strife that PM Narendra Modi spoke of in his I-Day speech.

Murderous deeds have inspired artists like Caravaggio, Jacques-Louis David and Paul Cezanne to produce some of their best-known works. But has there ever been a case of an artwork helping solve a real life murder mystery?

Remember the War on Drugs? How about the War on Poverty? We haven't won either of those wars yet. The same can be said of my personal War on Nonsense.

The almost impossible task of salvaging Iraq has begun along two distinct, but interconnected, courses: Political and military.

Guatemala City (AFP) - Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said Tuesday that Latin America is "losing fear" of legalizing drugs after decades of fighting traffickers with ample US prodding but limited success.

>GENEVA (Reuters) - Clashes between police and protesters in the U.S. town of Ferguson are reminiscent of the racial violence spawned by apartheid in her native South Africa, the top U.N. human rights official said on Tuesday. Navi Pillay, who is due to step down at the end...

NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP – Nearly 125 folks celebrated freedom and what Yardley and Lower Makefield veterans have done to help guarantee it for all Americans.

Grains started the month of August with a little oomph as the tension between Russian and the rest of the Western world continues to build.

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New York –New York state on Monday fined Pricewaterhouse Coopers $25 million and suspended some consulting work for two years after finding the company hid a Japanese bank’s US sanctions violations. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Japan’s biggest lender, pressured PwC to scrub a report on wire transfers the bank submitted...

On February 17, 2014 when I published my article titled: “President Mahama seriously needs leadership training”. At that time, little did I know Ghana was heading towards the tipping point of the brittle sea cliff (Please see the link below for that article: Mahama seriously needs leadership training!

Some of the world s most repressive regimes condemn police action in Ferguson, Missouri, on state broadcasting outlets and social media. Iran, Russian, China have attacked "human rights abuses".

New York's Superintendent of Financial Services, Benjamin Lawsky, said Monday that PwC Regulatory Advisory Services will be suspended from accepting consulting engagements at financial institutions regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for 24 months; it will pay US$25 million to the state of New York;...