Quotable notable
Tony Abbott, leader of the opposition conservative coalition that polls shows will likely win next month’s Australian election, pledging to ...
Year: 2013
Australian opposition: Elect us and we’ll be even nastier to boat refugees
ABBOTT. . . snarls more With Australia’s national elections just two weeks away, the opposition party is promising voters that ...
Iraqi accused of raping Iranian set free
DAWOOD. . . accused rapist Kentucky authorities have dismissed charges against an Iraqi man accused of raping an Iranian student ...
Afshin-Jam: Baby doesn’t look like me
Nazanin Afshin-Jam says her first-born looks so little like her that she fears people looking at her wonder if the ...
Yu plays half good, half bad
DARVISH. . . two games in one Yu Darvish, who is often prone to sloppy starts, got off to a ...
SURGE
The Tehran Stock Exchange index continues its dramatic surge. It passed the 60,000 mark Saturday. The surge began in late ...
New gov’t discovers revenues only cover 2/3rds of budget
Iran faces a revenue shortfall amounting to one-third of this year’s approved budget due to lower-than-expected revenues and President Rohani ...
Neighbors pump nine times as much from shared fields
Iran’s neighbors are extracting nine times as much oil and gas as Iran from fields that straddle Iran’s borders, the ...