Saturday, October 30, 2010

DTN News: Iran Top Stories / Headlines News Dated October 30, 2010

Defense News: DTN News: Iran Top Stories / Headlines News Dated October 30, 2010
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources
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Scholars to observe World Philosophy Day in Tehran
Tehran Times Culture Desk

TEHRAN -- Scholars from around the world will be gathering in Tehran to observe World Philosophy Day this year.

www.tehrantimes.com

Iranian sculptor criticizes French officials for dismissive attitude
Tehran Times Art Desk

TEHRAN -- Iranian sculptor Jamshid Moradian, who recently visited Île de la Cité, one of two natural islands on the Seine River within the city limits of Paris, has lamented over the island’s officials’ dismissive manner toward Iranian artists.

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Planes drop food as Indonesia struggles with aid

MENTAWAI ISLANDS (AP) – Relief planes dropped boxes of dried noodles onto tsunami-ravaged Indonesian islands Friday because storms and a shortage of vessels made helicopter and boat deliveries almost impossible days after the wave killed more than 400 people.

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‘U.S. govt. behind release of classified Iraq war documents’
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN - The U.S. government is behind the disclosure of numerous classified documents on the war in Iraq, political analyst Hossein Alaii said on Friday.

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American democracy: Pro-Israel Tweedledum and Tweedledee
By Maidhc Ó Cathail

Helen Keller’s pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice “between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” was never more true than in the upcoming midterm elections in the ninth congressional district of Illinois.

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Iran, Turkey border provinces sign MoU
Tehran Times Economic Desk

URMIA, West Azarbaijan Prov. – Iran’s West Azarbaijan province and five Turkish provinces signed a trade and economic memorandum of understanding here on Thursday.

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Koreas exchange gunfire at land border

SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South's military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months.

www.tehrantimes.com

Hezbollah: STL spied for West, Israel
By staff and agencies

BEIRUT -- Hezbollah's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the United Nations tribunal, investigating the former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri's assassination, has been channeling data on the country to the West and Israel.

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DTN News: Japan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated October 30, 2010

Defense News: Defense News: DTN News: Japan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated October 30, 2010
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources
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National news

Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010

China: Wen will not meet Kan in Hanoi

Beijing rejects Prime Minister Naoto Kan's overture to meet in Hanoi with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, because Japan had "ruined the atmosphere" for any talks, the state-run news agency Xinhua reports, citing No. 2 diplomat Hu Zhengyue.

COP10 goes extra mile for a deal

Delegates at the COP10 conference in Nagoya to the distance to conclude new agreements on preserving biodiversity over the next decade and on access to genetic resources and how to distribute the money they make.

China said to resume rare earth exports

LDP seeks new law to develop Okinawa, backing no-base goal

APEC to set new target for broadband usage

Monday collision tape viewing set

Pop diva Nakamori idled by health

MSDF ship intercepts missile in test

New warrant in boyfriend murders

Free-abductee resolution goes to U.N. panel

Flour millers cooking up 'kishimen' revival

Dolphin hunters, activists set to hold parley in Taiji

Whaling communities plug the hunt

EVEREST NEXT?

Oct. 29, 2010

Yume (dream) Robot climbs a 5-meter ladder Tuesday at a business exhibition in Osaka. The 1.4-meter-tall, 35-kg robot was developed by 15 small local firms.

KYODO PHOTO

Business

Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010

Plaintiffs: Toyota bought back bad cars, via gag rule

Toyota Motor Corp. bought back cars from drivers who reported sudden acceleration defects, but the company didn't tell federal regulators about the problem, according to court documents filed in the sprawling litigation against the automaker.

Factory output falls; CPI off 19th month

Nintendo boss: No Wii price cut

Sony back in black on PS3 lift

Unemployment rate eases to 5%

Axed: 295,000 nonregulars

Farm leader opposed

Sales surge doubles Honda's profit

Nomura profit off 91% over EU woes

September crude imports up 5.2%

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