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Narcotics to Be Set on Fire
Over 1 ton of narcotics will be set on fire in the northern Mazandaran province to mark the start of the National Week of Anti-drug Campaign on June 26, officials said on ...
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Mazandaran Fruit Output At 200000 Tons
Domestic Economy Desk Production of stone fruits will cross 200,000 tons across Mazandaran province, said managing director of Mazandaran Horticulturists Association. Mohammad Reza Sha'bani put the area under stone fruit cultivation at 14,000 hectares. He explained that the harvest of stone fruits has begun in Mazandaran and will continue until Aug. 22. Sha'bani said ...
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2nd Phase of Kavian Complex Underway
Domestic Economy Desk The second phase of Kavian Petrochemical Complex in Bushehr province, which is currently underway at full speed, will be completed in the current Iranian year (started March 21). Announcing this, Ali Mohammad Bosaqzadeh, supervision manager of National Petrochemical Company (NPC), said the implementation of the project is in its final stages. Bosaqzadeh said the plan ...
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Gov’t Approves Foreign Investment Projects
Domestic Economy Desk The government has approved foreign investment projects valued at $54 billion, said the deputy economic affairs and finance minister. Behrouz Alishiri said in the 176th meeting on foreign investment that eight foreign investment projects have been approved. Alishiri noted that the projects are aimed at increasing the production of copper ore and concentrate, float ...
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No Oil Swap Deal With Russia
Oil Ministry Spokesman Alireza Nikzad Rahbar dismissed speculation about a crude oil swap deal with Russia. He made the remark in reaction to media and press speculation that Iran swaps crude oil with Russia, taking delivery of crude oil from Russia in the North and supplying in kind in the South, IRNA reported. Nikzad stressed that the Oil Ministry has undertaken no talk or coordination to ...
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453 Companies in Mashhad Construction Expo
Domestic Economy Desk The 16th International Exhibition of Construction Industry and Air-Conditioning Systems opened on Tuesday at Mashhad's International Fairground with 453 domestic and foreign companies in attendance. Announcing the above, Seyyed Mohammad Seyyedi, the head of Iran's International Exhibitions Association, said the domestic companies are mainly from Tehran, East ...
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Most Imports From 5 Countries
Domestic Economy Desk Production of stone fruits will cross 200,000 tons across Mazandaran province, said managing director of Mazandaran Horticulturists Association. Mohammad Reza Sha'bani put the area under stone fruit cultivation at 14,000 hectares. He explained that the harvest of stone fruits has begun in Mazandaran and will continue until Aug. 22. Sha'bani said ...
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Climate Change Threatens Trouble in Near Future
From Page 1 "The revolution the book began isn't over," she said, with a large portion of this activity still left out of GDP calculations and policy decisions. Youngest Woman "When you don't have all of that in front of you, you just make really bad policy, she said. "You make very bad policy about the next generation, about the environment." Elected ...
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Foreign Transactions Exceed $11b
Egyptian Investment Minister Yehya Hamed said on Tuesday his country's economy grew by 2.2 percent during the fiscal year 2012-13, citing it as a proof of Egyptian economy's capabilities to stand despite its intense political conditions. Hamed said the government targets to boost economic growth rate to 3.5 to 4 percent in the coming fiscal year, official news agency MENA reported. ...
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Iran-Oman Trade Reaches $250m
Japan's trade deficit rose nearly 10 percent in May to 993.9 billion yen (nearly $10.5 billion) as rising costs for imports due to the cheaper yen matched a rebound in exports, the Ministry of Finance reported on Wednesday. Exports rose 10.1 percent in May over a year earlier to 5.77 trillion yen ($60.7 billion) while imports also surged 10 percent, to 6.76 trillion yen ($71.1 billion), ...
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Fars to Renovate 34 Edifices
Translated by Leila Imani About 34 historical edifices of Fars province will be renovated in the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the head of the province's cultural heritage, handicrafts and tourism department. Qodratollah Tajbakhsh also referred to the plans drawn up for the current year and said the renovation of Parseh-Pasargad Complex, the mausoleums of Sa'di and ...
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Health Tourism on Agenda
The practice of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. Iranian academic centers like Jundishapur University in 3rd century AD were a breeding ground for eminent scientists from different civilizations. These centers successfully followed their predecessors' theories and greatly extended their scientific research through history, Wikipedia reported. In recent years, some ...
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Diamond Mining Endangers Angola’s Antelope
Environmental campaigners are urging the Angolan government to halt plans to mine diamonds inside a national reserve that is home to the world's last wild population of a rare antelope, the Giant Sable. There are believed to be fewer than 100 purebred animals left and the species is listed as "critically endangered" on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of ...
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Husband Travelling to Find Kidney for Wife
Larry Swilling has been on a months-long quest: He's searching for a kidney for his wife. The 78-year-old, who has been looking for a compatible kidney donor for 76-year-old Jimmie Sue since last September, has caught the attention of the Web, CBS reported. But almost a year later, and despite lots of goodwill and plenty of offers from around the globe, he still does not have a match. It ...
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Smartphones Can Give Rise To Child Accidents
Using a mobile while walking down the street is a challenge for most adults, but new figures reveal that children may be even more at risk from life-threatening distractions. The problem with much mobile technology is that it's not really designed to be used while you're actually mobile--or at least, not if being mobile demands that you concentrate on something other than your mobile ...
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Applause a Social Contagion
Using a mobile while walking down the street is a challenge for most adults, but new figures reveal that children may be even more at risk from life-threatening distractions. The problem with much mobile technology is that it's not really designed to be used while you're actually mobile--or at least, not if being mobile demands that you concentrate on something other than your mobile ...
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Merkel German Should Be EU Working Language
Society Desk Iran's Health Ministry has expressed concerns over the return of HIV infection among Iranian drug addicts using shared syringes. Dr. Abbas Sedaqat, the head of HIV Department in Health Ministry, said that to reduce the risk of HIV, more preventive programs should be implemented. "The supervision and evaluation of HIV transmission have been underway in Iran since past ...
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China Dog-Meat Festival Unsafe Inhumane
Residents of a small city in southern China plan to hold an annual dog-meat festival on Friday amid intense criticism from animal rights groups that have denounced the one-day event as "unsafe and inhumane." Residents of Yulin in Guangxi province consider the festival an ancient summer solstice tradition. Many cherish their city's dog-meat culture, which involves the mass ...
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Replacing Rare Earth Elements With Sand
LED light bulbs may be more energy-efficient and longer-lived than their incandescent equivalents, but they're also considerably more expensive to purchase. This is largely because rare earth elements (REEs) are used in their phosphors, IdeaConnection wrote. There are hazards involved in the mining and processing of REEs, plus China is responsible for almost the entire world's ...
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Scientists Breed Threatened Species of Poison Frog
LED light bulbs may be more energy-efficient and longer-lived than their incandescent equivalents, but they're also considerably more expensive to purchase. This is largely because rare earth elements (REEs) are used in their phosphors, IdeaConnection wrote. There are hazards involved in the mining and processing of REEs, plus China is responsible for almost the entire world's ...
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Easy Ways to Boost Metabolism for Summer
People who eat a lot of red meat increase their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, while those who cut down on red meat cut their risk. According to HealthDay, those are the findings of a large new study out of Singapore involving 149,000 US men and women. The researchers found that increasing the consumption of red meat can increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 48 percent. ...
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Iran 2nd in US CanSat Contests
People who eat a lot of red meat increase their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, while those who cut down on red meat cut their risk. According to HealthDay, those are the findings of a large new study out of Singapore involving 149,000 US men and women. The researchers found that increasing the consumption of red meat can increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 48 percent. ...
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Quality of Waking Hours Affect Sleep
It's no secret that the key to successful weight-loss and healthy weight maintenance is to keep that metabolism revving, fueled by energy and nutrition-rich foods, dietary supplements and an active lifestyle. And, "a little strategy can go a long way toward keeping a diet and weight-loss initiative on track --particularly when the going gets tough," notes Dr. Britta Zimmer, ...
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Eight Dead in Somali Extremists’ Raid on UN Office
Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shabab insurgents shot and blasted their way into the United Nations compound in Mogadishu Wednesday, leaving eight people dead in the most serious attack on the UN in the troubled country in recent years. Three foreigners in the UN compound died in the attack, along with at least two Somali security guards and three civilians in the surrounding streets, officials ...
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Ex-S. Africa Envoy Slams Tel Aviv’s Treatment of Palestinians
A suicide bomber blew himself up as he embraced a Sunni Muslim political leader in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing the man and four of his family a day before elections in the area. Al Qaeda's local wing has increased its attacks this year, often targeting moderate Sunni Muslim leaders in a bid to ignite sectarian upheaval and undermine Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's ...
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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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