Rebel Newsflash (by ) Men Die, Lions Rise (by Jonathan Azaziah) Is the sky falling, are there pigs flying... I mean, is this still the same doomed reality... Yes, because there's still Iraqi, Afghan, Somali, Pakistani and Palestinian kids dying... And yes, your eyes are truthful about this cruel brutality... Peering through the fallacy... They've put a mask on it, so its easier to consume the savagery... Why they'd take him, he was a brother... Read More... | Not Zionism, not Judaism, Jewishness is the real threat (by Editorial) "But we ARE superior!", thinks the Jew, looking at us with the innocent eyes of a butcher about to slaughter a lamb Here I say it. I really don't like Jews. In fact, I hate them. What is there not to hate about them?! They represent everything that is wrong with mankind. They are hypocritical. They are a fraud. They lie. They cheat. They rape. They exploit. They are genocidal ... Read More... | 2 more mosques destroyed in Bahrain (by PressTV) The Saudi-backed Bahraini government forces have intensified their crackdown on anti-regime protesters and have also demolished two mosques. Bahraini security forces attacked the crowds in the towns of Sanabis and Daih on Sunday. Gunfire was heard and several people were abducted by the pro-government forces. Despite a martial law in effect since mid-March, and the arrests of hundreds of... Read More... | 'Refusal to fuel Iranian planes illegal' (by PressTV) An Iranian aviation official has criticized several EU countries for refusing to supply Iranian passenger planes with fuel, calling it an illegal move. IranAir's Paris branch manager Behrouz Raeesi stressed on Saturday that the refusal of certain Western countries to refuel Europe-bound Iranian commercial planes was illegal as it could threaten the passenger safety. He stressed that Tehran... Read More... | Death toll rises to 39 after tornadoes, storms in South (by Reuters) RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – The death toll from three days of severe storms and tornadoes in the southern United States rose to at least 39 on Sunday, with hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed in North Carolina alone, weather and emergency officials said. North Carolina accounted for the bulk of casualties and property losses reported by state officials -- 22 people killed and more... Read More... | Clinton vows full support for disaster-hit Japan (by AFP) | AFP/JIJI PRESS – Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano (2nd R) in a radiation proof suits visits Minamisoma city … | TOKYO (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged full support for quake-hit Japan on Sunday as the operator of its stricken nuclear plant said it expects to achieve "cold shutdown" in six to nine months. Japan's embattled Tokyo... Read More... | Congress will raise debt limit: Geithner (by Reuters) | Reuters – U.S. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner addresses an Access to Capital Conference entitled "Fostering … | WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Republicans have assured President Barack Obama that they would not hold the economy hostage over raising the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Sunday. But Republicans appearing on... Read More... | Air controllers to get more rest between shifts (by Associated Press) WASHINGTON – The government said air traffic controllers would have more time to rest between shifts under new work rules announced Sunday, while Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made clear he won't tolerate sleeping on duty despite studies and expert recommendations that suggest scheduled shut-eye can help combat fatigue. "On my watch, controllers will not be paid to take naps. We're not... Read More... | Iran intelligence minister resigns (by PressTV) Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi has resigned from his position and has been appointed as presidential advisor in intelligence affairs. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accepted Moslehi's resignation on Sunday. However, in a presidential decree, Ahmadinejad appointed Moslehi as his advisor in intelligence affairs. The Iranian president has yet to name a caretaker for the... Read More... | Saudi oil minister says market oversupplied and cuts output (by Reuters) KUWAIT (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Sunday the world oil market was oversupplied and that the world's top oil exporter had already reduced production due to weak demand. Consumers have urged OPEC to quickly add supply to quell the rally that has taken oil to its highest level in two and a half years amid unrest in North Africa and the Middle East. "The market... Read More... | Storm's fury over 6 states leaves at least 40 dead (by Associated Press) | AP – A lady inspectrs her home and car in Raleigh, N.C., Sunday, April 17, 2011. Homes and businesses were … | RALEIGH, N.C. – A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs has left at least 40 people dead on a rampage that stretched for days as it barreled from Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia. Emergency crews... Read More... | Cuckoos mimic hawks to scare hosts (by PressTV) A recent study has revealed that cuckoos which have hawk-like appearance scare the birds whose nests they invade and lay their eggs undisturbed. According to the report published in the journal Behavioral Ecology , the parasitic birds have evolved plumage patterns that have made them look like hawks and have the ability to scare host species. Cuckoos are brood parasites who lay an egg in... Read More... | 'Iran weathers storm of sanctions' (by PressTV) Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance says the Islamic Republic has successfully managed to weather the recent 'storm of sanctions.' "Iran's economy is very attractive and doing business Iran is lucrative and at times unique," said Shamseddin Hosseini, adding that the Islamic Republic has managed to overcome sanctions using its 'innovativeness.' Hosseini made the remarks in an... Read More... | US sets new air traffic control rules (by PressTV) The US Secretary of Transportation has announced new scheduling rules after seven air traffic controllers were suspended for falling asleep on the job. Ray LaHood announced on Sunday that air traffic controllers will be given at least nine hours off between shifts, following the latest incident in Miami where a controller was suspended for sleeping, The Washington Post reported. The US... Read More... | Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically (by Associated Press) | AP – FILE - In this President Barack Obama outlines his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington … | WASHINGTON – As millions of procrastinators scramble to meet Monday's tax filing deadline, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all. The Internal... Read More... | "Idocracy" - Just Because Bush Is Gone Doesn't Mean You Still Aren't Stupid (by Gordon Duff) | FROM A TRUMP/PALIN/TEA-PICKER "GENIUS" WEBSITE | EVEN GLENN BECK COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE... Got kids? How are they with guns? They are going to be needed again soon. The last batch is prettymuch used up Its happening again. Its starting. America is being primed again, another "take down," another mysterious and convenient terror attack, more bugaboo enemies, more... Read More... | Day of Afghan attacks kills 8 NATO service members (by Associated Press) | AP – In this photo provide by ISAF Regional Command (South), the cook at the Sheik Mati Boys School in Qalat, … | KABUL, Afghanistan – Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan killed eight NATO service members in one of the deadliest days for the military coalition this year, signaling the start of what many fear will be a particularly violent fighting season as President... Read More... | Bahrain regime punishes civil servants (by PressTV) Bahrain's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters is taking its toll on the civil servants, who have joined the popular revolution. Over a hundred people among the employees were briefly suspended and face prosecution for their support for the nationwide demonstrations, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. The Bahrain news agency, the state news outlet, said they were blamed for... Read More... | 'Iran Army capable of countering threats' (by PressTV) Senior Iranian military official Mohammad Mahmoudi says Iran's Army is capable of countering any act of aggression with the help of modern and improved military equipment. "The Army is ready to counter any possible threat with the help of committed, expert and competent personnel and its modern and optimized equipments," Brigadier General Mohammad Mahmoudi said on Sunday. Since the victory... Read More... | Refugees suffer in Denmark centers (by PressTV) Asylum seekers in Denmark suffer from poor psychological living conditions in a country where immigration policies are believed by some to be the strictest in Europe. The Ellebaek Institution for Detained Foreigners is one of the centers where foreign refugees face serious psychological problems and the number of asylum seekers who attempt suicide is one the rise. Despite being located... Read More... | War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11 (9/11) (by Michel Chossudovsky) {vimeo width="560" height="340"}22514919{/vimeo} In this lecture by Michel Chossudovsky, he blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by "Islamic terrorists". Through meticulous research, he has uncovered a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.... Read More... | 'Egyptians ask for open court for Mubarak' (by PressTV) Egyptians yet continue to protest and remain steadfast in their hope for a new government that is not dictated and controlled by the West. Press TV interviewed former US Senator candidate Mark Dankoff. Press TV: Do you think the disbanding of the National Democratic Party is just a cosmetic change? Dankoff: I think that remains to be seen. One think I would like to see a very open... Read More... | Indo-Israeli Nexus Damage the US Interests (by Sajjad Shaukat) After 9/11, India and Israel which had openly jumped on Bush's anti-terrorism enterprise are acting upon a secret diplomacy, targeting whole of the Islamic World in general and Pakistan, China, Iran, Libya and Syria in particular. Thus these two countries are damaging the US interests on regional and global level. It is of particular attention that Jewish-Hindu lobbies are collectively... Read More... | Why the "Obama Doctrine" Won't Help the Shia Majority in Bahrain (by Franklin Lamb) Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi passed through Beirut a couple of weeks ago and gave a terrific lecture at the American University of Beirut entitled "Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab Revolutions of 2011." In response to a student's question, Khalidi disputed that there wasn't any "Obama Doctrine" worthy of that label and he predicted the White House would be... Read More... | Former Egyptian premier to stand trial (by PressTV) Judicial sources say that former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will face trial on charges of corruption and use of violence against peaceful protesters. The judicial sources said on Sunday that the former ministers of interior and finance would also stand trial in the coming weeks. "The former prime minister, Ahmed Nazif, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and former Finance Minister... Read More... | Iran to unveil 500-ton submarines (by PressTV) A top Iranian military commander has announced plans to manufacture and deploy new domestically built submarines to patrol the country's southern coasts. Deputy Commander of Iran's naval forces Admiral Amir Farhadi said the 500-ton submarine would join the Army's naval fleet by July 2012, in an interview with IRNA on Sunday. The medium-size vessel was primarily designed to patrol Iran's... Read More... | Bahraini hunger striker hospitalized (by PressTV) A Bahraini human rights activist has been hospitalized after going on a hunger strike in protest at the kingdom's detention of her relatives. Zainab al-Khawaja was taken to hospital on Sunday after seven days of hunger strike following the arrest of her father and brother. The 27-year-old had his father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja -- a prominent Bahraini opposition figure -- and husband Mohammed... Read More... | Open mic records contradictory Obama (by PressTV) US President Barack Obama praises Qatar's emir over efforts to promote democracy in public but tells a fundraiser that he is "not reforming significantly" on the same day. Following a meeting with Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani on Thursday, US President Barack Obama addressed reporters, saying, "I expressed to him [al-Thani] my appreciation of the leadership that the emir has... Read More... | Finland parliamentary elections begin (by PressTV) In Finland, voters are casting their ballots in the country's parliamentary elections, with the nationalist True Finns Party likely to make strong gains. The True Finns Party scored 15.4 percent in an opinion poll published on Thursday, showing a sharp increase from the 2007 elections where they received 4 percent of the vote, The Associated Press reported. The party, opposed to bailouts... Read More... | Iran, Iraq to fight sandstorms (by PressTV) Iran's Environment Protection Organization (IEPO) says the country will sign a contract with Iraqi environment officials to fight desertification and sandstorms. "Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have taken some measures to fight sandstorms in Iran, and the most recent decision is a mutual contract between Iran and Iraq for Iranian experts to mulch the neighboring country's desert lands,"... Read More... | America is on the wrong side (by John Kaminski) Will we ever finally realize that the bottom line leads straight to hell? [ClarityQuest podcast with Zane Henry and John Kaminski, which touches on currency as consciousness, the right to resist government poisons falsely called medicines, and America being on the wrong side of every important issue in the world Read More... | 'US planned Arab world revolutions out' (by PressTV) With Egypt's pseudo-revolution and the ousting of elderly Arab leaders, Author Mark Glenn explains that the US-Israeli operations, rather than the people, have caused these revolutions. Press TV interviewed Author Mark Glenn of the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement regarding the Arab uprisings and the United States and Israel's objectives on foreign policy in the Middle East region.
Read More... | Poison gas used on Yemeni protesters (by PressTV) Dozens of Yemeni protesters have reportedly suffered injuries after the security forces used poison gas to disperse anti-government rallies. Forty people were wounded on Sunday when police used gas to disperse protesters, a Press TV correspondent reported. Hundreds of thousands of people have turned out for regular demonstrations in cities including the capital, Sana'a, Aden, Taizz, calling... Read More... | The 5 Words Used to Control / Enslave You (by Steven) Note: Many well-known freedom movement spokesmen/women have not been willing to fully discuss and expose this subject for reasons known only to them. Why? Because, they either think it is too trivial, they do not fully understand it or perhaps in their mind, it's been debunked by an attorney, whom they give credence to, without doing their own thorough due diligence. It is also important to... Read More... | Thousands hold anti-govt. rally in Yemen (by PressTV) Large crowds of Yemeni protesters have held anti-government demonstrations, repeating their call for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. On Sunday, thousands of protesters gathered in the capital, Sana'a, as Yemeni opposition leaders were preparing to discuss power transition in the country with foreign ministers of Persian Gulf Arab nations in Saudi Arabia. Saleh has already been... Read More... | China raises bank reserves again (by Reuters) BEIJING (Reuters) – China raised banks' required reserves on Sunday for the fourth time this year, extending the fight against excessive liquidity and stubbornly high inflation in the world's second-largest economy. The reserve rate rise, which followed an increase in benchmark bank interest rates on April 5, was the seventh since China stepped up efforts against inflation in October and... Read More... | Gaza Flotilla II and Vittorio Arrigoni (by Rehmats World) The kidnapping and assassination of Vittorio Arrigoni, activist and correspondent of the International Solidarity Movement with Palestine in Gaza – was meant as an Israeli warning: "Stay away from Gaza and Palestine". Allegedly the kidnapping and assassination was carried out by pro-Saudi group (s), who were previously involved in riots in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.... Read More... | Iran accuses Siemens over Stuxnet virus attack (by Reuters) | Reuters – An interior view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, some 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran October … | TEHRAN (Reuters) – An Iranian military commander has accused German engineering company Siemens of helping the United States and Israel launch a cyber attack on its nuclear facilities, Kayhan daily reported on Sunday. Gholamreza Jalali, head of Iran's... Read More... | Gaddafi forces hit west of Ajdabiyah (by PressTV) As fighting continues between forces loyal to Libya's embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi and revolutionary forces, Gaddafi loyalists have reportedly pounded west of the opposition-held town of Ajdabiyah. The reports came after Gaddafi forces killed seven people and injured 27 more near Ajdabiyah on Sunday. Earlier on Saturday, Gaddafi loyalists fired rockets at the revolutionaries' positions... Read More... | 1 in 5 US veterans jobless in 2010 (by PressTV) Recent data released by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that more than one fifth of US veterans aged between 18-24 returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were unemployed in 2010. The unemployment rate for the young male veterans was nearly 22 percent last year, more than two percent higher than their non-veteran counterparts, a press TV correspondent reported on Saturday.
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| UK risks losing its embassy in Tehran (by PressTV) A senior Iranian lawmaker says the British embassy in Tehran has moved a step closer to closure by using its website for anti-Iranian campaigning. "In an act of forward escaping, the British want to divert the public opinion -- that is against them -- from the massacre of the people in the region," Deputy Chairman of Iran's Majlis (Parliament) Committee on National Security and Foreign... Read More... | Line of Succession to Throne altered (by PressTV) The first daughter born to Prince William and Kate would be granted the throne under the alteration of the "discriminatory" rules in line of succession. British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pursued the plan of eliminating the rule of male primogeniture from the monarchy to give the same rights to the possible future princesses born to William and Kate. Clegg raised the matter at... Read More... | Britain lacks judgement on Iran (by PressTV) Britain is openly using the website of its embassy in Tehran as a rally point for anti-Iranian accusations in an apparent attempt to subvert the country's Islamic establishment. In line with the west's mudslinging campaign against the human rights situation in Iran, the British embassy in Tehran has, in a totally undiplomatic move, allocated almost the entire space on the main page of its... Read More... | UKIP seen as a polite alternative to BNP (by PressTV) The British people are funneling their racist anti-immigration sentiments to support for UK Independence Party as a "polite alternative" to the far-right extremists of the British National Party. A study has found despite UKIP insistence that it is not racist, it will gain from the Islamophobic and xenophobic sentiments of the voters who deem the BNP too rude to join. The research by... Read More... | IMF chief hails Iran's economic reform (by PressTV) Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reportedly hailed Iran's economic reform plan aimed at overhauling the country's economy by shelving energy and food subsidies. Deputy Governor of Iran's Central Bank Seyyed Hamid Pour-Mohammadi said that the IMF chief made the remark during a meeting with an Iranian delegation participating in a gathering... Read More... | 'Iran self-sufficing in training pilots' (by PressTV) The Islamic Republic of Iran trains all the pilots for its Air Force domestically without any need to foreign assistance, an Iranian senior military official says. "At present, 100 percent of training of the pilots needed for the Air Force is provided in Iran," Commander of Shahid Sattari Aviation University Brigadier General Mahmoud Sheikh Hasani told reporters on Sunday. All the... Read More... | Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey discuss ties (by PressTV) Foreign ministers of Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkey have stressed the importance of improving relations in all fields and holding regular consultation on regional and international developments. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov discussed ways to promote mutual relations in various political, economic and cultural fields, IRNA reported on... Read More... | WB warns about food prices, ME revolts (by PressTV) The World Bank has warned that the recovery of developed economies may face further challenges due to the rising food prices, high unemployment and the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. "We are one shock away from a full-blown crisis," World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in reaction to surging global food prices, AFP reported. "The financial crisis taught us that... Read More... | Tel Aviv fears 'anti-Israel' Egypt (by PressTV) More than two months after the Egyptian revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed fears that the new government in Egypt is becoming 'anti-Israel.' Addressing a gathering of European Union ambassadors in East Jerusalem Al-Quds last week, Netanyahu said that some of the voices coming out of Egypt show "hostility" toward... Read More... | 'US aborting democracy in Mideast' (by PressTV) Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani has deplored the stance of the United States and the West on popular uprisings in the region, saying the US is aborting democracy in the Middle East. Addressing a Majlis open session on Sunday, Larijani said countries in the Middle East are making efforts to establish democracy in the region "but the US seeks to abort such efforts by... Read More... | Rense Herb Meyer - Deciphering Information Overload (by Jeff Rense) Herbert E. Meyer is a leading authority on the use of information. During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Meyer served as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council. In these positions, he managed production of the US National Intelligence Estimates and other... Read More... | Libya's Great Man-Made River (by Stephen J. Lendman) A previous article explained that America's led NATO war on Libya was long-planned. All military interventions require months of preparation, including: -- strategy and conflict objectives; -- enlisting coalition partners; -- selecting targets; -- promoting political and public support; -- deploying troops; -- in Libya, recruiting, funding, and arming so-called rebels; and --... Read More... | 'Bahrain crackdowns amount to genocide' (by PressTV) | An unidentified Bahraini anti-government protestor is carried to a vehicle to be taken to a hospital after being wounded during a demonstration in Manama, Bahrain. | A Bahraini opposition leader has strongly criticized Bahrain's intensified pressure on peaceful protesters, describing the brutal crackdowns as "genocide." "This is a crime against humanity, it is a... Read More... | Harassment by The YouTube Team — An open message to Sergey Brin (by Anthony Lawson) YouTube may be acting illegally by taking down videos for alleged copyright infringement, without first determining important factors regarding Fair Use as provided for in copyright law. In August 2008, US District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose, California ruled that copyright holders cannot order a deletion of an online file without... Read More... | US committed to support Israeli crimes (by PressTV) The US House of Representatives has approved millions of dollars in military aid to Israel, as it is witnessing crimes committed by Tel Aviv against people in the Palestinian territories. In an interview with Hani al-Bassous, from Islamic University of Gaza, Press TV has discussed the US double standard policies towards different countries. PressTV: Gaza has definitely seen crimes committed... Read More... | MAPNA to invest $5bn in Iran gas field (by PressTV) Iran Power Plant Projects Management Co. (MAPNA) has agreed to invest $5 billion in southern Iranian Lavan gas field to generate electricity by using its natural gas, an Iranian oil official says. "Based on an agreement with MAPNA, the company will produce electricity from gas through developing Lavan gas field," SHANA news agency quoted Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh, the managing director of... Read More... | Libya denies firing cluster bombs (by PressTV) Libya has denied reports by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi have used internationally banned cluster bombs against revolutionaries in the Libyan city of Misrata. "Absolutely no. We can't do this. Morally, legally we can't do this," AFP quoted Mussa Ibrahim, a spokesman for Gaddafi, as saying on Sunday. Ibrahim called for more evidence, saying, "We... Read More... | Tornados in US claim 22 lives (by PressTV) | Emergency personnel confer in front of Lowes Home Improvement after it was hit by a tornado in Sanford, North Carolina, Saturday, April 16, 2011. Homes and businesses were badly damaged Saturday by a severe storm system that whipped across North Carolina. | The death toll from severe tornados ripping through parts of the southern, central and eastern United States has climbed... Read More... | 'Japan to end crisis in 6-9 months' (by PressTV) Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) says it expects to cool reactors and control the radiation at Fukushima nuclear power plant within six to nine months. TEPCO announced on Sunday that it will manage to reduce radiation leaks from its Fukushima plant within three months and to also cool reactors and control the radiation within six to nine months, AFP reported.. TEPCO is the operator... Read More... | 'Threatening Iran can't salvage Saudis' (by PressTV) An Iranian lawmaker says the Saudi regime cannot defuse the 'discontent' of its people by making military threats against the Islamic Republic. "Making military threats against Iran will not salvage the Al-Saud [regime] from the Saudi people's demands," said Mostafa Kavakebian, a member Iran's Majlis (parliament) Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, on Saturday. "The... Read More... | Iran MP slams UK 'undiplomatic' moves (by PressTV) A senior member of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) has lashed out at Britain for adopting "undiplomatic" measures in dealing with Iran, stressing that Tehran would deliver a "crushing response" to London. "If British officials ward off responsibility for their irrational and bullying moves, the Iranian nation will deliver an appropriate and firm response to them," said a member... Read More... | Colonial Powers Lack in Moral Courage (by Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan) Mere Regrets over Historical Mistakes Wont Solve the Problems This is beyond doubt that Britain is responsible for most of the interstate or intrastate territorial and ethnic issues arising in those parts of the world where it remained as a colonial power. Kashmir is one such issue, which was left unresolved at the end of over 300 years British colonial rule in the Subcontinent. The... Read More... | Iran, Turkey to erect industrial town (by PressTV) Iran and Turkey are pursuing a plan to set up a joint industrial town at their borders to further boost widening economic ties, Ankara's Ambassador to Tehran Umit Yardim says. "We are trying to build the Iran-Turkey joint industrial town by the end of the year," Fars News Agency quoted Yardim as saying in a meeting with Vahid Jalalzadeh, the governor of Iran's West Azarbaijan province,... Read More... | S African man gets 195-year sentence (by PressTV) A court in South Africa has sentenced a 21-year-old man to 195 years in prison after he was found guilty on multiple counts of rape, robbery, and murder. The convict, indentified as Sthembiso Rasta Mbhele, appeared in court on Thursday where he was found guilty on six counts of rape, six counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances, one count of attempted rape and one count of murder,... Read More... | US threatens PA over statehood bid (by PressTV) A senior US congresswoman says the Palestinian Authority (PA) could face an aid cut if it pushes ahead with its unilateral statehood demand to the United Nations. "That [demanding unilateral statehood] would be a very very bad thing to do. It will affect US aid to the Palestinian Authority. It would be a very serious step. It also could affect our funding at the UN," said Texas... Read More... | US backs Israel to continue war crimes (by PressTV) As the US continues to demand cuts and is subjecting the people to austerity measures, the average Americans might be surprised to know that Washington continues to increase its aid to Israel. The United States is now providing Israel with at least eight point two million dollars every day. In an interview with Professor Rodney Shakespeare, Press TV discussed what aims Washington peruses... Read More... | 3 US-led troops killed in S Afghanistan (by PressTV) Three more US-led soldiers have been killed in Blasts in southern Afghanistan, bringing the number of foreign troops killed in the war-torn country to over 130 in 2011. Earlier on Saturday five US-led forces were also killed in an attack on an Afghan army base in eastern Afghanistan. In a Saturday statement, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the number of... Read More... | Gaddafi forces kill 7 near Ajdabiyah (by PressTV) At least seven people have been killed in ongoing fighting between troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi and revolutionary forces near the opposition-held town of Ajdabiyah. The fatalities come after Gaddafi loyalists fired rockets at the revolutionaries' positions between Ajdabiyah and Brega on Saturday. Medical sources say that at least 27 people were also wounded in the heavy... Read More... | 14 Algerian soldiers killed in ambush (by PressTV) At least 14 Algerian soldiers have been killed in an attack by militants in the country's northeastern region of Kabylie. The ambush took place at around 7:00 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) on Friday when assailants attacked an army post in the town of Azazga, located 140 kilometers (90 miles) from the capital Algiers, Algeria's French-language El Watan daily reported on Saturday. The militants... Read More... | US-led soldier dies in Afghan war (by PressTV) A US-led soldier has been killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, bringing to almost 130 the number of foreign troops killed in the war-torn country this year. The International Security Assistance Force service member died Saturday following an improvised explosive device attack, Afghanistan's Pajhwok news agency cited a brief statement released by the military contingent. The Taliban... Read More... | US, Israel behind Stuxnet worm: Iran (by PressTV) A senior Iranian military official says the United States and Israel unleashed the destructive computer worm Stuxnet in order to sabotage Iran's industrial facilities. The head of the Iranian Passive Defense Organization told IRNA on Saturday that the German engineering company Siemens AG provided the information on the software used at Iranian industrial sites. "The research and inquiry... Read More... | Top militant leader slain in Tajikistan (by PressTV) Tajikistan's government troops have killed a top militant commander who had been the country's most-wanted criminal for more than a decade. Abdullo Rakhimov, widely known as Mullo Abdullo, was killed along with 14 of his followers during a military operation in Samsolik village of Rasht Valley on Friday, the Associated Press reported Saturday. At least two members of Interior Ministry and... Read More... | |