News Archive - 1 November 2014

The lack of co-ordination in Whitehall has led to the 'extraordinary situation' that those suspected of financing terrorism do not appear on the UK travel ban list, says Conservative MP Stephen Barclay

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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: His Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Bolkiah, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, today received farewell calls from two outgoing Ambassadors.

Sanctions limiting Russia's access to Western equipment and expertise in shale and Arctic oil production have been in force for two months, but local producers are hardly rushing to replace their U.S. and European counterparts.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who opened up American verse in the 1960s and beyond through his forceful, spiritual takes on the outsiders and underside of contemporary life, has died at age 87.

With two days to go until the midterms, and with polls pointing to the prospect that Republicans could take control of the Senate, the stakes ...

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A leading Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Mohammadreza Mahdavi Kani, who headed the country's most influential clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing the nation's supreme leader, has died. He was 83.

Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy hosted a question-and-answer session on Israel’s regional security issues with Meir Dagan, former director of the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, on Oct. 14. It was moderated by the Honorable Edward P. Djerejian, the founding director of Baker Institute.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Shiite powerhouse Iran has pledged enduring support for the Shiite-led government of Iraq in its battle against an ascendant Sunni insurgency spearheaded by the Islamic State group.

>The size of contributions to the 55-billion-euro fund should be decided "as a function of their risk profile", he was quoted as saying, noting that European Central Bank stress tests showed France had "one of the most solid" banking sectors in Europe."Following this criterion, our financing contribution to the...

Iran says 93 percent of executions drug-related; Islamist rebels cease Syria's Idlib province from West-backed rebels; Kurdish forces launch attack on ISIS in Sinjar, Iraq.

PITTSBURGH -- Retired 4-star general, David Petraeus, told an audience of some 850 attendees at the closing session of the American Middle East Institute's 2014 Business Conference that despite the threat ...

Six days after the execution of a woman who killed her attempted rapist, Iran has lashed out at critics of its appalling human rights record at a U.N. hearing on Friday, blaming the West for Saturday's execution.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic is very serious on reaching a deal with the P5+1 group of world powers over the country’s nuclear energy program.

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The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran Deaf Sports Federation (IRIDSF) says Iran and neighboring Armenia have offered to jointly host the 2021 Summer Deaflympics, also referred to as the 24th Summer Deaflympics.

MANILA, Philippines – When Gilas Pilipinas suffered the country’s worst placing in the recent Asian Games, national team coach Chot Reyes was at the receiving end of harsh criticisms particularly from local basketball fans.

Tehran, Nov 1 (IANS): The Iranian foreign minister will meet the US secretary of state and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Nov 9-10 to discuss core issues on Tehran's nuclear programme, an Iranian negotiator said Saturday confirming an earlier report by the US state department.

Iran men’s national beach soccer team will take on European powerhouse Portugal in the opening match of the 2014 Samsung Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces arrived in the Syrian town of Kobani with heavy weapons to help Syrian Kurds fend off attempts by Islamic State insurgents to seize the town and cement control in the Turkish border region.

>NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are investigating London-based Standard Chartered Plc (STAN.L) for potential U.S. sanctions violations connected to its banking for Iranian-controlled entities in Dubai, according to people familiar with the probe. The latest investigation involving the bank is based, in part, from evidence that...