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Quake Jolts Hormuzgan Again
An Iranian rescue and relief ship late on Sunday saved six sailors from a damaged commercial boat in waters off southern Hormuzgan province, who would have otherwise drowned in stormy Persian Gulf waters. Control Tower of the Ports and Sailing Officer of the naval patrol boat Esmaeil Malkizadeh told IRNA, "A large commercial boat carrying 450 tons of foodstuff bound for Iran's Lengeh ...
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Tehran Kabul Sign MoU On Judicial Ties
Iran and Afghanistan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote cooperation in legal and judicial fields. The MoU was signed on the third day of a visit by Afghanistan's Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi and his delegation to Tehran, during which he had meetings with high-ranking Iranian officials to discuss ways of broadening ties between the two countries' judiciaries, ...
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11 Foreign Nationals Sentenced
Three presidential hopefuls dropped out of the upcoming presidential election. Deputy Majlis Speaker Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabifard, who represented the so-called Coalition of Five, a bloc from the conservative camp, said on Monday that he has made up his mind to withdraw from the race, ISNA reported. Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast issued a statement on Sunday saying he is ...
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Syria Confab Pointless Without Iran
Three presidential hopefuls dropped out of the upcoming presidential election. Deputy Majlis Speaker Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabifard, who represented the so-called Coalition of Five, a bloc from the conservative camp, said on Monday that he has made up his mind to withdraw from the race, ISNA reported. Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast issued a statement on Sunday saying he is ...
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$16b in SP Investments Expected
Domestic Economy Desk Iran is expected to increase Euro 4 gasoline production by 60 percent, said a member of the Majlis Energy Commission. "Currently, Euro 2 gasoline and diesel are supplied to domestic consumers, the sulfur amount of which is 13,000-15,000 parts per million (ppm)," Abbas Soltani added. He put the amount of sulfur in Euro 4 fuel at less than 10 ppm, which is far ...
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Overseas Electricity Sales Will Rise
Domestic Economy Desk More than 12 billion kilowatt hour of electricity will be exported during the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the deputy oil minister for energy and electricity. Mohammad Behzad also put the share of private sector in electricity generation of the country at 40 percent, Mehr News Agency reported. He also said Iran's electricity generation capacity ...
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1st Virtual Museum Of Cultural Heritage Launched
Translated by Leila Imani The first Virtual Museum of Iran's Intellectual Heritage was inaugurated in Tehran's Sa'dabad Cultural Complex on the occasion of the International Museum Day on May 18. According to the report released by ISNA, the initiative has been launched by the association of Javedan Cultural Complex in the year to March 2011. The website of the virtual museum ...
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Climate Change Disaster Threatening Caribbean
The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. It is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist. Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published over 350 reports on environmental management and related matters, has warned that "urgent action at all levels (is) required now", cautioning the region ...
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Islam Growing in UK
A new analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration has helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population alongside a dramatic spread of Islam, particularly among the young. It suggests that only a minority of people will describe themselves as Christians within the next decade, for first time, MuslimVillage reported. Almost one ...
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Indonesia’s Healthcare Plan Stumbles
When a sick Indonesian baby died after 10 hospitals in Jakarta turned her family away in February, critics blamed a pilot health insurance scheme that had overwhelmed the city's public hospitals. The program, introduced in November, gave health insurance to around 5 million people in Jakarta categorized as poor. Long queues quickly formed at already stretched hospital emergency rooms as ...
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US to stop gold sales to Iran
Gold bars are on display at the "Gold" exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The US is going to stop all transfers of gold to Iran. The U.S. is trying to stop the gold rush to Iran in a bid to undermine the Islamic Republic's plummeting currency, but critics say the move is more likely to hurt ordinary citizens than the rogue regime's leadership.A ...
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Kuwait Deport Expats For Speeding
Kuwait has deported hundreds of expats for traffic offences in the past month, a report has said, drawing condemnation from a human rights group. A senior interior ministry official said that as many as 1,258 foreigners have been deported for traffic violations since a crackdown began about a month ago, according to the Al-Anbaa newspaper. Foreign residents caught driving without a license, ...
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Soothe Ache With Fake Frozen Peas
A bag of frozen peas is an age-old remedy for sore joints and bruises. Now, an innovative medical product called Frozenpeaz--sealed packs containing tiny balls of solidified corn syrup, dyed pea-green--looks just like the vegetables and offers the same benefits, without wasting food, Daily Mail said. Traditional ice packs--usually plastic bags containing silicone gel--and cold compresses ...
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Confab on Nanotech Applications In Energy Industry
Iranian experts have developed an injection paste for the treatment of bone diseases, said the head of Iran's Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center. Saeed Hesaraki noted that the paste, made up of polymeric liquid, will revolutionize medical domains, especially in the treatment of bone diseases, ISNA reported. "Treating reversible ...
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Iranian Student Wins Global Swede Award
Iranian experts have developed an injection paste for the treatment of bone diseases, said the head of Iran's Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center. Saeed Hesaraki noted that the paste, made up of polymeric liquid, will revolutionize medical domains, especially in the treatment of bone diseases, ISNA reported. "Treating reversible ...
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Gestures That Smartphones Can Appreciate
Can't get to the phone? Try waving at it. A device that enables a smartphone's camera to recognize gestures--without gobbling up precious battery life--looks set to transform the way we make calls. According to NewScientist, Microsoft's Kinect and the soon-to-be-released Leap Motion have thrust 3D gesture-recognition technology into the mainstream. Touchless phones, however, are ...
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Saudi Vendor Dies After Self-Immolation
A street vendor died in Saudi Arabia after setting himself on fire in protest at having his goods confiscated by police, human rights activists reported on Monday. The vendor, Mussa Ahmad Al-Harissi, "tried to end his life on Wednesday evening by pouring petrol over himself and setting himself alight," the activists said on condition of anonymity, AFP reported. He was protesting the ...
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Salafists Police Clash in Tunisia
A street vendor died in Saudi Arabia after setting himself on fire in protest at having his goods confiscated by police, human rights activists reported on Monday. The vendor, Mussa Ahmad Al-Harissi, "tried to end his life on Wednesday evening by pouring petrol over himself and setting himself alight," the activists said on condition of anonymity, AFP reported. He was protesting the ...
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Israeli Bank Heist Claims 5 Lives
A bank robbery in Israel on Monday ended with the deaths of five people, including one of the holdup men who apparently shot and killed himself when police launched a raid to free hostages. Police special forces surrounded the branch of Bank Hapoalim in the southern city of Beersheba after two robbers carried out the botched lunchtime heist in a residential street, Reuters reported. Witnesses ...
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Sweden Police Clash With Angry Youths
From Page 1 Baghlan is located in the more peaceful north of Afghanistan but it sees regular attacks by Taliban insurgents. As international troops withdraw from the country, the Taliban has increasingly targeted Afghan politicians, government officials and the security forces. The insurgents launched their annual "spring offensive" last month vowing to use suicide blasts to inflict ...
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How Irans Syria Policy Is Making it Lose the Regional Popularity Contest
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (L) chats with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) while on their way to an official dinner in Damascus on February 25, 2010. (Reuters) These days, there are not many things that Arabs agree on. In fact, it may be fair to say they agree to disagree more often than not when it comes to regional ...
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Heavier Fines for Hunting Violations
Translated by Atefeh Rezvan-Nia Edited by Mohammad Reza M. Karimi A tenfold rise in fines for hunting and fishing violations has been proposed to the Department of Environment for protecting species at risk of extinction. Announcing this, Colonel Hamid Reza Kheildar, the commander of Environmental Protection Unit, said over 95 percent of Iranians disagree with hunting, hence such penalties ...
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Afghan Suicide Attack Leaves 14 Dead
A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of Benazir Bhutto, an official said, but the retired general remains under house arrest. Musharraf has been detained in his farmhouse on the edge of Islamabad since April 19 on charges of conspiracy to murder two-time prime minister Bhutto, who was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack in 2007 in ...
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Series of Deadly Attacks Rock Iraq Cities
A wave of car bombs and shootings killed at least 79 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, pushed the death toll in Iraq since Wednesday to more than 200. The bloodshed over the past week ...
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Air Defense System Under Mass Production
Air Defense System Under Mass Production Iran's latest indigenous air defense battery, Ninth Herz, has hit the production line in a ceremony attended by Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi. The production line was inaugurated on Monday on the occasion of the upcoming birth anniversary of Imam Muhammad Al-Taqi (AS), the ninth Shiite Imam, and in the run-up to the 31st ...
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Iran will have men in space within ten years
Iran will have astronauts in space within the next ten years, according to government officials who recently revealed to Iran news media the Iranian Space Agency’s long-term space objectives.
Iran has pursued an ambitious space program in recent years, entering the so-called ‘Asian Space Race’ and launching the country’s first rocket in 2004, followed in 2009 by the launch of an entirely domestically-built satellite, thereby becoming the 9th country in the world to have achieved orbital-launch capability. Read more
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