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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 ...

  • Diplomats Iran Acts to Expand Sensitive Nuclear Capacity

    VIENNA, AUSTRIA -- A U.N. nuclear agency report due this week is expected to show Iran further increasing its capacity to produce material that its adversaries fear could eventually be used to develop atomic bombs, Western diplomats said on Tuesday. But they said it also is likely to indicate that growth in Iran's most sensitive nuclear stockpile has been held back because some of it has ...

  • Iran agency says it heard Rafsanjani and Mashaie barred from vote

    Reuters © Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani attends Iran's Assembly of Experts' biannual meeting in Tehran March 8, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Raheb ...

  • India leads Asian cuts in Iran oil imports ahead of sanctions waiver

    NEW DELHI // India has slashed Iranian oil imports by almost a 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 United States and Europe to force a halt to a controversial nuclear programme that Tehran says is for peaceful purposes saw ...

  • Saudi Arabia says arrests 10 from Iranian spy ring

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -; A Saudi official says police have detained 10 more members of an alleged Iranian spy ring - eight Saudis, one Lebanese and one Turkish ...

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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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  • Iran moves to impose steep export duty on iron ore

    - Iran's government is negotiating a tax of up to 40 percent on iron ore exports to take advantage of a surge in sales to China, aiming to replace revenue from oil and other sources eroded by ...

  • Texas Hold Em in Tehran - By Yasmin Alem

    Gitmo needs $200 million in upgrades; Guardsmen called up in Oklahoma; an ICBM test planned for today; Hagel meets with a Russian; What North Korea could do to the U.S.; Baron, out; and a bit more. - by Gordon ...

  • Iran bars Rafsanjani Rahim Mashaei from June ballot Reports

    Iranian news websites have boosted speculation that election overseers have barred two prominent but divisive figures from next month's presidential ballot.The hardline website Tasnimnews.com says the Guardian Council has rejected former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a close confidant of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The semiofficial Mehr news ...

  • Taste of Iran Lari kebab recipe

    The Leaning Tower of Pisa is lit against the night sky, the square empty save for a couple walking hand in hand and a man with a dog by his side. In a top-floor apartment a few blocks away, Peyman Majidzadeh is putting the finishing touches on his favorite dish, Lari kebab, made on the stove instead of the grill and with chicken instead of lamb. It might be a stretch to call it Lari kebab, but ...

  • Iran cracks down on activists in runup to election

    Iran has launched a public crackdown on dissent before next month's presidential election, executing two men charged with espionage and waging war against God, arresting a group of activists and summoning campaigners for questioning. Political prisoners in some of the country's most notorious jails have had their parole or visiting rights withdrawn and some transferred to solitary ...

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