Ok-Seok Seo was traveling with another inspector from the International Atomic Energy Agency near the Khandab nuclear complex in central Markazi province when their vehicle overturned, state news agencies said, citing Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. The IAEA issued a statement saying it was informed of the accident and has been in touch with the inspectors’ [...]
Story By: Weekend Edition Saturday Host Scott Simon talks with Kieran Dwyer, chief spokesman for the United Nations Peace-Keeping Department, about the United Nations mission in Syria and continuing violence there.
There are getting on for two million UK citizens for whom Greece's deepening political and economic crisis is becoming a personal, nagging worry. Tourism is very important to Greece's economy, with the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (Sete) saying it accounts for 17% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and gives employment to a [...]
Dubai A detainee was accused of deliberately starting two fires in a detention centre, endangering the lives of 200 detainees and inflicting damage to public property totalling Dh1,300 in two separate cases. Prosecutors charged the 31-year-old Emirati detainee, M.I., with intentionally starting two fires in the solitary confinement and ward B of Al Qusais Police [...]
By SAM MAMUDI For at least a generation, financial professionals have urged mutual-fund investors to put more money in stocks than in bonds. The logic: Stocks power a portfolio, while bonds provide some protection. The Journal Report See the complete Investing in Funds: A Monthly Analysis report. Now some pros are questioning that conventional wisdom. [...]
Council leaders have criticised new adoption scorecards which are being introduced in England in an effort to speed up the adoption process. The government has begun ranking local councils on how long children in their care wait to be adopted. It says the scorecards show "the extent and seriousness" of delays. But three bodies representing [...]
Montague — Magnificent Montague, as he’s been known since his days as a pioneering radio DJ — amassed an 8,000-piece collection reflecting names from the well-known to the forgotten to those history never thought to remember. It’s valued in the millions; some call it priceless. One assessment of just five of the pieces puts the [...]
By ANSGAR SICKERT You might be forgiven for not noticing that a trade delegation from the European Union recently descended upon India’s capital to give the attempts of concluding a comprehensive free-trade agreement a much-needed boost. Perhaps because it was around the same time as the world leaders’ forum in Davos, India-EU free trade negotiations [...]
Eritrea emerged from its long war of independence in 1993 only to plunge once again into military conflict, first with Yemen and then, more devastatingly, with its old adversary, Ethiopia. This culminated in independence after an alliance of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and a coalition of Ethiopian resistance movements defeated Haile Selassie's communist [...]
The Solomon Islands, a former British protectorate in the Pacific, is striving to recover from a civil conflict that brought it to the brink of collapse. A rival militia group, the Malaitan Eagle Force, staged a coup in June 2000 and forced the then prime minister to resign, saying he had failed to deal with [...]
