News Archive - 11 October 2014

>In an interview with Berlin's Tagesspiegel daily, Steinmeier said longstanding animosities in the Middle East needed to be set aside to ensure a united front against IS and he vowed to raise this with Saudi Arabia's leadership when he visits the country on Sunday."We are trying to convince the...

>Wefaq, which has strong links to Bahrain's Shi'ite majority, confirmed on Saturday the opposition would not take part in the poll because the elected parliament will not have enough power and because voting districts favor the Sunni minority."Any elections process without a peaceful transfer of power within a system...

Negotiations for a nuclear deal with Iran may be extended if an agreement can’t be reached by the Nov. 24 deadline, a senior Iranian official said Friday, offering the strongest signal yet that Tehran and world powers may prefer a continuation of inconclusive diplomacy to a risky collapse of talks.

Australian super middleweight Zac Dunn (15-0, 13 KOs) stopped Istvan Zeller (9-4, 4 KOs) in round three of a scheduled twelve round WBC and WBO regional title bout at the Celebrity Room, Racing Club, Moonee Valley, Victoria, Australia on Saturday.

Members of the Jewish community in Pittsburgh are objecting to a local diner’s invitation to customers to sample Palestinian cuisine fearing that it could incite customers against Israel, according to media reports in Pennsylvania.

October 11, 2014 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese president, Omer Hassan al-Bashir, said his country managed to overcome the frosty relations with Saudi Arabia saying Khartoum ties with Tehran don't qualify to be described as strategic. Bashir told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Saturday that he refuted to the Saudi...

As the siege of Kobani continues for a fourth bloody week, the UN, the West and Turkey are at loggerheads over aid for outgunned Kurdish fighters in a desperate battle with Islamic State militants near the Turkish-Syrian border. But for Middle Eastern powers and their western backers, the Kurds have...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television accused the BBC on Sunday of trying to steal "artistic, historic and cultural documents" from government archives in the Islamic Republic.

Despite airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, Islamic State militants are positioning to wreak havoc on Baghdad as they battle Iraqi government forces and engage in mortar fire, adding to the sense of siege in the Iraqi capital.

A one-sided victory gives the 2014 NLCS the feeling of being over, but with six games to go and a postseason full of uncertainty, we're uncertain if that's the correct feeling to have. In the run-up to Game 1, there was quite a bit of focus on Adam Wainwright's elbow.

United Cargo announced the acceptance of the Envirotainer RKN e1 temperature control container. The FAA approved the RKN e1 in July 2014, and United Cargo is the first U.S. airline to announce this container will be available for use by its customers.

>TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's cabinet approved bills on Friday aimed at tightening rules against money laundering and terrorist financing in a bid to avoid getting on an international watchdog's list of high-risk and non-cooperative jurisdictions. The move came months after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global standard setter...

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In March, the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? suffered a series of strokes at 39,000ft during a flight from Bangkok to London. Doctors were unsure whether he would ever completely recover.

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ANKARA: Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a US-led coalition to escalate airstrikes on Islamic State insurgents who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday.

Everyone would have been better off if we had just left Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein alone. We would have saved the more than 4,000 American ...

Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry left for Cairo Saturday to back calls to aid the Gaza Strip, amid fears donors may fail to raise $4 billion needed to rebuild the Palestinian territory.

Iran’s central bank governor said his country’s economy should continue to strengthen even if economic sanctions remain in place.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's official news agency says a police airplane has crashed in the country's southeast and the fate of the seven people onboard remains unclear.

A total of 299 merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions were completed in the first six months of 2014 in the oil and gas industry globally, one less than in the same period a year earlier.

Warning: Spoilers. Documentarian Laura Poitras spent a lot of time with Edward Snowden in his Hong Kong hotel room from June 3 to June 10, and her new fi lm sets the stage for what may be the biggest national security leak in history. " Citizenfour" presents fascinating footage from...

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official news agency says a police airplane has crashed in the country’s southeast and the fate of the seven people onboard remains unclear. The report late Saturday from IRNA said authorities found the wreckage of the propeller airplane outside the provincial capital of Zahedan in southeast...

Republican Senate candidate from New Hampshire says President Obama's lack of leadership is putting America at risk

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Iran and Russia are planning to establish a joint bank in an effort to multiply bilateral trade and bypass sanctions on the Islamic Republic's banking sector, a media report said Saturday.

On the western edge of Iraq's capital, Islamic State group militants battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, only adding to the sense of siege in Baghdad despite airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition.

Cuba has received no indication the Obama administration might change U.S. policy toward Cuba despite increasing support within the United States for closer ties, a top Cuban official said on Wednesday. "We don't have those indications [of any policy change]," Josefina Vidal, chief of the Cuban foreign ministry's U.

On the western edge of Iraq's capital, Islamic State group militants battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, only adding to the sense of siege in Baghdad despite airstrikes by a

A mum fighting leukaemia has seen her three brothers – her last chance of a bone marrow transplant – barred from Britain. Fatemeh Mehdipour’s siblings were refused visas to fly in from Iran, despite being the closest surgical matches.

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A group of top officials from the United States and an Iranian delegation will hold nuclear talks on Thursday, Reuters reported citing the US State Department.

Gulf monarchies taking part in US-led air strikes against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria could deploy special forces on the ground but only if certain conditions are met, analysts say.

YOU’VE heard of helicopter parents, but have you heard of “lawnmower parents”? If you’ve got kids, chances are you might be one of them.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The official website of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he went hiking in the mountains north of Tehran just one month after undergoing prostate surgery.

Organisers of Asia's largest film festival defended their decision to air a controversial film on the South Korean ferry tragedy as the event, visited by a record number of people, drew to a close Saturday.

The winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize are Malala Yousafzai, the admirable young (17) Pakistani Muslim girl who has most courageously defended the right of girls to education, and Kailash Satyarthi, the Indian Hindu who has led a movement for some 35 years campaigning against child slavery in India.