News Archive - 26 October 2014

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Hollowayfilm is starting its eighth season on Friday. September 26 with a screening of Sunshine on Leith.

Tony Mendez and his wife Jonna Mendez attended a Focused Ultrasound Foundation symposium in October where they broke the news of his disorder.

LISTENING to the House of Commons debate on the motion to bomb Islamic State targets in Iraq, I was struck by the generally high calibre of the speeches and interventions from both sides of the House.

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Hosts Qatar suffered their third successive defeat in the ACC Under-16 Criket Tournament.Yesterday, at West End Park, Afghanistan made short work of Qatar...

Washington — With talks nearly deadlocked and their deadline one month away, six world powers seeking a nuclear deal with Iran have begun discussing whether to again extend negotiations, according to Western officials.

Disembodied, badly equalized and with no musical cues or ambient sound around it, the nonetheless recognizable voice of Kevin Spacey in sneering antihero mode fuzzes over the computer speakers. "You think that you can just march into these countries based on some fundamentalist religious principles, drop a few bombs, topple...

Vladimir Putin is allegedly “marked for assassination” by President Barack Obama according to Paul Craig Roberts of the Institute For Economy. As such startling assertions are made, Russia’s leader is claiming the United States, not Russia, is the true threat to the world. In a related report by The Inquisitr,...

‘Two Gay Muslim Couples’ conveys real-life struggles of gay Muslims through fiction (PRWeb October 26, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Ali/TwoGayMuslimCouples/prweb12278370.htm

>INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL* GLOBAL MARKETS-Asia up as upbeat earnings, data, sharpen risk appetite* Brent drops below $86 after Goldman cuts price forecasts* Gold struggles as stronger equities hurt safe-haven appeal* MIDEAST STOCKS-Markets recover further, Saudi up despite SABIC's Q3 miss* As oil price slides, Gulf's private business may benefit* Goldman cuts WTI,...

Crikey's writer-at-large pays his respects at the world's oldest video store in Boulder, Colarado. Read more on the blog...

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014 file-pool photo Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he boards his plane at Orly Airport, south of Paris, France, en route to Vienna, Austria.

As someone who has consistently advocated a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians based on a two-state solution, I was appalled to hear the speech delivered by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations General Assembly.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Thursday that it has met directly with a Kurdish political party in Syria that is linked to a guerrilla group considered by the U.S. and Turkey as a terrorist organization.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Phoenix woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton in Las Vegas to live with her mother in Arizona while she awaits sentencing for trespassing.

Riau Islands Police are intensively questioning Singaporean Lim Yong Nam, 40, who is wanted by the US Department of Justice for allegedly exporting electronic devices used to make bombs in Iran and Iraq

@Ahmar Mustikhan Think logically not emotionally.your leaders have not allowed their tribes to prosper. Do you think they will after winning what you call "independence". You cannot change their nature.

Shiva Deonarine, right, and Caiphus Moore, two T&T-born animators, will speak at Animae Caribe this year.

October 26, 2014 (JUBA) – South Sudan said on Sunday that the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has warned it could designate armed opposition forces allied to former vice-president turned rebel leader Riek Machar as a negative force, should it continue to reject signing the peace proposal...

Get a sneak peek at Anthony Bourdain's next adventure in Iran. The CNN Original Series "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown" Sunday, Nov. 2nd 9pm ET/PT.

IRAN faced international condemnation yesterday after Saturday’s execution of 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari despite concerns over the fairness of her trial.

HOUSTON -- Falling oil and gasoline prices have sent oil company stocks tumbling, but oil experts say the boom in American energy production shows no signs of slowing down, keeping the market flush wi

Today is Monday, November 3, the 306th day of 2014. There are 59 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1394 - Charles VI orders Jews expelled from France.1534 - England's parliament confirms King Henry VIII...

Fred Lambert MASHKAIL, Pakistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Iran and Pakistan traded mortar fire along their border Friday, highlighting recent tensions between the two nations.

NEW YORK (AP) — A sudden plunge in the price of oil is sending economic and political shockwaves around the world. Oil exporting countries are bracing for potentially crippling budget shortfalls and importing nations are benefiting from the lowest prices in four years.

Your honorable success and your significant achievements in the sports fields at the Asian Para Games, have been praiseworthy and I would like to congratulate you one by one for the glories, said the Supreme Leader.

The left's worst crime in the Middle East has been its support for the region's Arab-Muslim majority at the expense of its minorities. It has supported the majority's terrorism, atrocities, ethnic cleansing and repression of the region's minorities...

Back in 2007, a shooting in Iraq caught the attention of many in the U.S. Four security guards working for the company Blackwater shot and killed at least 14 Iraqi civilians in a traffic circle in Baghdad. This week all four were pronounced guilty by a federal jury. For...

A Singaporean wanted by the United States for allegedly breaching a US trade embargo against Iran - and whose extradition to the US was rejected by a Singapore court two years ago - has been detained by Indonesian police in Batam. Lim Yong Nam, 40, was arrested at the Batam...

The Honouring Our Local Veteran ceremony served as a memorial service for the family of Louis Gault.

The Russian president comes out against settlement construction in the West Bank. But Moscow's relationship with Israel has never been better.

Cooperation agreement will enable the two countries to conduct “joint cyber-security operations”, according to Russian press reports

Among the different “goals” that President Obama has declared for his “fight” against the Islamic State, the most frequently cited is “to push them back.” Obama doesn’t make it clear...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What looks like a mini space shuttle, can fly itself for millions of miles and goes by the name X-37B?

KUWAIT CITY: Energy kingpin Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf states are set to resist pressure to tighten the taps significantly to shore up oil prices as the global economy stumbles, analysts say.

Things took an ugly turn along the Pak-Iran border on Thursday night when a rocket fired by Iranian border guards hit an FC vehicle killing a junior officer and injuring four other personnel.

A demonstration organised by German far-right groups has erupted into violence in the heart of the western city of Cologne.

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America and its friends benefit from falling oil prices; its most strident critics don't IN EARLY October the IMF looked at what might happen to the world economy if conflict in Iraq caused an oil-price shock. Fighters from Islamic State (IS) were pushing into the country's north and the fund...

Just over a year ago, Afshin Kobani was a teacher.

Pakistan has a way of making its presence felt in India’s foreign policy and national security matrix that, much to New Delhi’s chagrin, tends to steal India’s diplomatic thunder.

Al-Qaeda militants have reportedly been instructed to sabotage the journey of thousands of tankers either with explosives or by hijacking cargo ships and run them aground to terrorise the West.

How does the National Library in Jerusalem decide which treasures to acquire? Why is a priceless collection that was meant to arrive in 1917 still stuck in Russia? And how did the institution come to own Japanese Buddhist art?

Oil demand has been revised downwards by International Energy Agency (IEA) for 2014 by 200,000 barrels a day (b/d) as downward revisions were made mainly to the OECD, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. For seasonal reasons, 2014'Q4 is usually the strongest demand quarter in the year.

>The lawyer and activist was picked up along with several friends on Saturday on their way back from a sit-in outside Tehran's Bar Association in Tehran. They were freed after a brief background check, leaving only Sotoudeh in custody. "I was held for seven hours and then set free," she...

People living near an active Hawaii lava flow have been warned to prepare for a possible evacuation in the next three to five days as molten rock oozed across a country road and edged closer to homes.

Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Moscow to fully implement last month's ceasefire agreement on Ukraine, the State Department said in a statement Saturday. The peace deal reached last month in the Belarussian capital Minsk between Kiev, Moscow and the pro-Russian separatists in...

The execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, the Iranian woman who was sentenced to death for killing her alleged attempted rapist, has drawn worldwide condemnation.

Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2014 America's top negotiator leading talks to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions Thursday called on Iranian leaders to "make the right choice," saying now was the time to reach a deal. "If Iran truly wants to resolve its differences with the international community - and facilitate the...

Young Iranian freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers have snatched eleven medals at the 2014 Cumhuriyet Youth Wrestling Tournament in Turkey.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Venezuela has taken the spotlight in this year's campaign for coveted seats on the U.N. Security Council but the hottest race is between New Zealand, Spain and Turkey whose foreign ministers are in New York this week lobbying for votes.

A top Israeli minister says there is a "crisis" in the country's relations with the United States that must be fixed.

Dubai, Oct 26: A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared.

A 750-year-old city of Ukek founded by descendants of Genghis Khan unearthed along river Volga in Russia.

It appears that no one wanted the Security Council seat.

The Iraqi government claimed that its troops and Shiite Muslim militias captured a key Islamic State stronghold near Baghdad on Saturday in an operation to boost security for Islamic new year gatherings that apparently was overseen by an Iranian general.

By United Press International UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014

Hopes for Tamil Nadu fishermen's release brighten

WASHINGTON - They're not on the ballot, but the stakes are still high on Nov. 4 for U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, Bob Menendez, and Bob Casey.