Archive for the ‘World’ Category
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
(PTI): Hours after the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, demanded an end to street protests, US President Barack Obama said that the “world is watching” Iran’s actions.
Addressing the Friday prayers gathering attended by millions of people — the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that last Friday’s election indicated a ‘common sense of responsibility’ of the Iranian nation to determine the future (more…)
Tags: Obama, World is watching Iran's actions
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
(PTI): Revelations by the brother of Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi confirm reports that the US helped the armed separatist ring carry out terror activities in Iran.
In a recent interview conducted prior to his execution, Abdulhamid Rigi told Press TV that since 2005, his brother had repeatedly met with US agents in Islamabad and Karachi and communicated (more…)
Tags: Iran, Jundullah, US
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
(PTI): A French union has called on Air France pilots to refrain from flying amid fresh reports on the number of fatalities found from the doomed flight 447.
An unnamed authority with the Alter union said on Monday that there exists a “strong presumption” amongst aviators that a glitch in the craft’s external speed device, alias Pitot, contributed (more…)
Tags: A330, Air France
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
(PTI): Amidst frosty relations between Washington and Tel Aviv, the Saudi foreign minister says Washington should cut off its aid to Tel Aviv should it continue its occupation of Arab land.
In an interview with Newsweek magazine to be published on June 15, Prince Saud al-Faisal said that Washington would be held ‘responsible’ for Israel’s actions if its unquestionable (more…)
Tags: Saudi Prince Saud al-Faisal, Washington
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
(PTI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing increasing domestic criticism over his policies which are described as ‘morally’ and ‘politically’ destructive to Israel.
Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor said on Saturday that “there is, in my opinion, significant political and moral damage in not saying: At the end of the road, I’m ready (more…)
Tags: Israel, Netanyahu, Palestinian state
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
(PTI): Israel could soon be charged with hundreds of war crimes as Palestinian lawyers file 936 lawsuits against the Israeli military five months after its three week war on Gaza.
Head of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Iyad al-Alami, says the cases will soon be heard in Spain’s National Court under universal jurisdiction, the pro-Israeli magazine (more…)
Tags: Israeli military, Lawsuits, Palestinian
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
(PTI): One day after the IAEA confirmed the non-diversion of Iran’s nuclear program, the presidents of France and the US accuse Iran of attempting to obtain nuclear weaponry.
In its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program, released on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear (more…)
Tags: Insurance, Iran, Loan, Mortgage, Nuclear weaponry, Obama, Sarkozy
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
(PTI): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has come across traces of processed uranium at a second nuclear site in Syria, a report has disclosed.
In a report released on Friday, the United Nations nuclear watchdog pronounced that its inspectors have found uranium particles at a small research reactor in Damascus that bear resemblance (more…)
Tags: IAEA, Syria, UN, Uranium
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
(PTI): US President Barack Obama has asked his Iranian counterpart, who says the Holocaust is a “big deception”, to visit the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
“He should make his own visit,” said President Obama who visited the site on Friday. “I have no patience for people who would deny history. And the history of the Holocaust (more…)
Tags: History, Holocaust, Obama, Speculation
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
(PTI): Presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard, is going to file a complaint against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Rahnavard told Press TV on Friday that she would file a complaint against the president unless he formally apologizes to her family for violating their “privacy”, to her for “spreading false (more…)
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Complaint, Mousavi's wife
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