News Archive - 30 September 2014

>"There will not be an intention of a ground intervention because they failed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we oppose any foreign intervention in the region by these states," Supreme National Security Council Director Ali Shamkhani said in a news conference televised from Damascus.His remarks were rendered into Arabic...

>INCHEON, South Korea, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The ugly spectre of drugs in sport took centre stage at the Asian Games on Tuesday when two athletes, including a gold medal winner, were kicked out of the region's biggest multi-sports competition for doping offences. Malaysian martial arts gold medallist Tai Cheau...

>* Saudi pumps more, other Gulf members keep supply flat* OPEC output highest since November 2012 - ReutersBy Alex LawlerLONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - OPEC's oil supply jumped to its highest in almost two years in September, a Reuters survey found, due to further recovery in Libya and higher output...

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic will soon supply the Lebanese army with necessary military equipment to help the nation deal with the threats it is facing.

>The Lebanase Army has been stepping up efforts to prevent Sunni Muslim fighters from Syria entering Lebanese border towns. Last month, the northern town of Arsal was the scene of the deadliest spillover of fighting in the three-year-old civil war in Syria.The rise of hardline militants in Syria such...

India and US have pledged to strengthen and deepen cooperation in every sector for the benefit of global stability and people's livelihoods over the next ten years.

By Mahmoud A. Suleiman September 30, 2014 - The following article is an attempt to analyse of what the Chiefs of Military, Intelligence and Security Devices of the National Congress Party (NCP) regime discussed at their meeting and the effect of that on the course of the immediate and the...

Michael Morell, former CIA deputy director, right, and Daniel Benjamin, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, have a public conversation about international issues in the Cook Auditorium at Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., on Sept. 30, 2014. Morell will be...

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu meet for a new round in their often-tense relationship on Wednesday, facing differences over Iran diplomacy and Middle East peace efforts as well as complications from the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State militants. Hosting the...

Six prominent Iranian movie directors have launched a campaign calling for a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. The filmmakers include Rakhshan Bani-Etemad , who won the award for best screenplay at this year's Venice Film Festival , and Asghar Farhadi , who won the Academy Award for Best...

The Shanghai Group is expected to consider Mongolia as the next member of the organization, which is set to become a transport hub, the director of the Russia department of the SCO International Relations Institute said Wednesday.

In the end, there was much to talk about at the U.N. General Assembly but few genuine surprises. With an eye on the jihadist group ISIS, President Obama focused on the need for the international community to counter the dangers of violent extremism.

Ardeshir Hosseinpour's sister claims he was murdered because he would not cooperate with efforts to divert peaceful nuclear work to building an atomic bomb

Despite overwhelming evidence linking the CIA to drug traffickers, that sordid reality remains one of the great taboos of the mainstream U.S. media, which rallies to destroy anyone who points out the facts, a fate that befell journalist Gary Webb, as Greg Maybury explains.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington is sticking to its position that Fokker deserved lenient treatment because of the company’s “voluntary self-disclosure” in June 2010, according to a court filing today.

The joint statement issued after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama's first-ever summit is high on intent and ambition.

The Shanghai Group, comprising six member-states, expands the non-American world of which China and Russia are the pillars, the director of the Center for Strategic Issues of Northeast Asia and SCO said on Wednesday.

NAGPUR: Nagpur’s 8 ½-year-old Divya Deshmukh won her first World crown when she emerged as champ in the under-10 girls’ section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Durban, South Africa, on Monday. The No. 13 seed earn 9 wins and 2 draws and finish the 11-round-even with 10 points.

by interaksyon.com (via Agence France-Presse ) INCHEON – The captain of Iran’s unbeaten basketball team at the Asian Games has called on the sports governing body to let his country host the Asian championships. Iran have won the FIBA Asia Championship three times since 2007, once each in Japan...

The US-led anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition is "illegitimate", said a top Iranian official visiting Syria Tuesday.

GREAT HOPES: Drivers undergoing a series of tests on the vehicle dynamic area at Yas Marina Circuit. (AN photo)

Something about the name Khorasan, which the US says is a group of al-Qaeda veterans, doesn't feel right.

Faced with a common threat, former opponents become unlikely allies. Speaking at the United Nations on Monday, Syria's foreign minister said…

An Iranian woman due to be put to death for killing a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her is reported to have had her execution postponed. Officials said on Monday that Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, had been transferred to a prison west of Tehran to be hanged. But...

The more I think through the Obama administration's strategy on Syria the more worried I get. I feel like the guy in the Kingston Trio's classic tune "A Worried Man."

According to human rights activists, Iran has executed a 37-year-old man after he was declared guilty of heresy and insulting Prophet Jonah by a court of law.

Many of us have followed, in horror, the story of Beverly Carter , the real estate agent was has been missing since last week and was found dead this morning . On social media, Sen. Jason Rapert reacted to the news of her death: If Arron Lewis did what he is...

Nearly seven years ago, Reyhaneh Jabbari was convicted of murder for stabbing a burly man who attempted to rape her. Unfortunately for Jabbari, her rapist was an intelligence officer, meaning she had even less protection than she usually would to claim self-defense. Reyhaneh was given the death penalty, a punishment...

>By Kathrin JonesFRANKFURT, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has withheld some bonus payments from top executives as it awaits the outcome of a long list of legal and regulatory issues that it aims to clear before the end of the year, a senior bank offical said on Tuesday.Germany's...

>DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - The decision by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to join air strikes in Syria reflects an increasingly muscular foreign policy by the Gulf Arab heavyweights that has already started to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East. With Egypt, Syria and Iraq...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's financial regulator wants Commerzbank to fire some of its employees as part of a settlement to resolve investigations into its dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. sanctions, sources familiar with the matter said.

New York, Sep 30 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a speech to the United Nations that the threat of Islamic State reached far beyond Israel as IS militants seek to dominate the world.

Today is Tuesday, September 30, the 273rd day of 2014. There are 92 days left in the year.

Iran’s Amin Investment Bank, which was targeted by U.S. sanctions, is starting to provide mergers and acquisitions services to address demand for takeover advice.

In order to answer this question, one has to liberate the argument from its geopolitical and ideological confines. Many in the media (Western, Arab, etc) use the reference “Islamist” to brand any movement at all whether it be political, militant or even charity-focused.

Sept. 30, 2014, 8:19 a.m. | Op-ed — by Business Insider Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a press conference in Astrakan, on September 29, 2014 during the Caspian Sea Summit made up of Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN General Assembly in New York was provocative to Palestinians, officials said.

National Security Council official says Iran will supply army with military equipment as it battles Sunni armed groups.

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>Sept 30 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media:* New York's financial regulator wants some Commerzbank AG employees to be fired as part of a settlement over allegations the German lender improperly processed transactions with Iran and other countries facing U.S. sanctions, according to people...

>The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks:ALLIANZIndicated 0.3 percent higherDoubleLine Capital, an investment firm that has been a major rival of Pimco, saw between $400 million and $500 million of net inflows on Friday in the wake of Bill Gross' departure from Pimco, DoubleLine...

>--Clyde Russell is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own.--By Clyde RussellSINGAPORE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Asian refiners may be about to get a welcome boost from major oil producer Saudi Arabia, which is likely to keep lowering the cost of crude to the region.Saudi Aramco,...