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  • 61 killed in Iraq attacks

    A series of car bombings and shootings, mainly targeting Shia Muslim areas across Iraq, Monday killed at least 61 people, including Iranian pilgrims, and wounded around 200 others, officials said. The worst violence occurred in Baghdad, when eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods in the capital city, killing 12 ...

  • Saudi Arabia arrests more ‘Iran spy ring’ suspects

    Saudi Arabia has arrested 10 more suspects in what it says is a spy ring linked to Iran, state media report. Those detained include eight Saudis, a Turk, and a Lebanese citizen. Eighteen people were arrested in the same case in ...

  • India leads Asian cuts in imports of Iranian oil ahead of waiver review

    India has cut Iranian oil imports by almost one-fifth since December, the sharpest cut among Asian buyers, in a move that should increase its chances of winning a new US waiver next month on sanctions targeting oil trade with Iran.Sanctions imposed by the US and Europe to force a halt to a controversial nuclear program that Tehran says is for peaceful purposes saw Iran's oil exports more ...

  • 47 Dossiers Presented to UNESCO

    Translated by Leila Imani The dossiers of 26 and 21 cultural and natural heritages have been presented to UNESCO respectively, said director of Parseh and Pasargad Foundation. Mohammad Hassan Talebian added that Iran joined the Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritages in 1975. He noted that 190 countries are members of World Heritage Committee, 157 of which have ...

  • Sony Classics Wins Rights to ‘The Past’

    'Romain Rolland the Man and His Work', a book written by Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig, has been translated into Persian by Mohammad Majlesi. The book has been released by 'Donya-e No' Publications in 335 pages. Rolland was a French novelist, dramatist, essayist, mystic, and pacifist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. He had a strong sense of social ...

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Repulsion [DVD]

Repulsion [DVD]

One of the first books to take a significant critical look at the horror genre was Ivan Butlers Horror in the Cinema, which was published as part of Paperback Librarys International Film Guide Series in 1967. Butler was one of a few critics willing to take the genre seriously at that ... ...

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    A car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad on Monday, killing eight people, Iraqi police and a local official said. The explosion also wounded at least 15 people, they said, AFP reported. The pilgrims were on their way to a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was bombed in February 2006, unleashing a wave of sectarian bloodletting in which tens of thousands of people ...

  • Ahmadinejad Inaugurates Coke-Producing Plant Projects

    Ahmadinejad Inaugurates Coke-Producing Plant, Projects President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a coke-producing plant in the southeastern province of Kerman on Tuesday. The construction of Kerman's Kouhbanan coke-producing plant cost EUR5mln plus $12 million (300 billion rials), Fars News Agency reported. The annual output of Kouhbanan plant is 500,000 tons of coke for use in ...

  • Syria Confab Aimed At Political Solution

    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will take part in ceremonies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, later this month, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The announced was made by Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi during his weekly press briefing in Tehran on Tuesday. The spokesman noted that Iran has ...

  • Final Presidential List Today

    Final Presidential List Today Interior Ministry's Elections Headquarters says the final list of candidates for the 11th presidential election of the Islamic Republic will be announced on May 22. Secretary of Iran's Elections Headquarters and Deputy Interior Minister Seyyed Solat Mortazavi said on Monday that the Interior Ministry would announce the names of the candidates on ...

  • Pentagon Requests $79bn for Afghan War

    Pentagon Requests $79bn for Afghan War The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $80 billion to cover the cost of the war in Afghanistan in 2014. The request for $79.4 billion in fiscal year 2014 is slightly lower than the war funding of $87.2 billion for the current fiscal year, Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters, APP reported. The proposed funding for Afghanistan ...

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