Senior negotiators from Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) ended their first round of talks in Istanbul, Turkey./World News The first round of talks ended in “positive atmosphere” and the next round is scheduled to be resumed later toady. Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National...
Germany shut down more than 4,700 farms and related businesses late on Thursday after tests showed animal feed had been contaminated by a cancer-causing chemical. “4,709 farms and businesses are currently closed,” including 4,468 in the state of Lower Saxony, northwest Germany, the agriculture ministry said in a statement. The...
Spanish Vicente del Bosque was named 2010 National Team Coach of the Year by the International Federation of Football Statistics. It is the second consecutive year Del Bosque has won that distinction. Del Bosque, who helped Spain win the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, obtained 298 points in the organization’s scoring system, 113 more...
Romania and Bulgaria have reacted angrily to moves by the French and Germans to try to block them from joining the Schengen zone, the Europe’s borderless travel zone. France is against the move because of fears of an influx of Romanian families. In July president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the expulsion of thousands of illegal Roma from Romania...
The Guardian, El-Pais and Le Monde have published only two percent of the files related to Israel. “There are 3,700 files related to Israel and the source of 2,700 files is Israel,” Julian Assange told Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV. Manama: Western papers have been reluctant to publish diplomatic cables containing information about Israel,...