EU leaders to discuss growth pact

EU leaders to discuss growth pact

EU leaders to discuss growth pact

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:56 PM PDT

With the world watching, summit will try to deliver a convincing response to the debt crisis.


Chinese dairy recalls tainted milk cartons

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:51 PM PDT

Move comes weeks after another company pulled out six months' worth of infant formula due to mercury contamination.


Palestinian President to meet Israeli vice PM: official

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:57 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Israeli Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz on Sunday, a Palestinian official said on Thursday, in the highest-level meeting between the sides since peace talks broke down in 2010.

In divided Egypt, U.S. plays all sides

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:16 PM PDT

A shirt with a picture of elected president Mohamed Mursi, with words that read "Congratulations to Egypt", is sold during a sit-in at Tahrir SquareWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ambiguous outcome of Egypt's revolution leaves Washington no choice but to deal with the country's both major players, the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, despite its disagreements with each. Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement long held at arm's length by the United States, was declared on Sunday to have won Egypt's presidency. He assumes an office whose powers have been whittled away by the military, whose recent actions are seen as anti-democratic but which remains the country's most powerful institution. ...

Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:29 PM PDT

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court sentenced 36 alleged members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel to prison on Wednesday for various crimes, including dismembering a state prosecutor who was investigating the gang. Judges determined that the three dozen gang members, including one woman, were responsible for at least three murders in the northern region of Peten last year. The court also handed out prison sentences from two to 158 years for crimes ranging from drug possession, conspiracy, trafficking arms and murder. ...


Hamas says militant assassinated in Damascus

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:41 PM PDT

A senior Hamas leader says one of the Palestinian militant group's members has been assassinated in Damascus.


Guatemala sends dozens of drug traffickers to prison

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:29 PM PDT

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court sentenced 36 alleged members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel to prison on Wednesday for various crimes, including dismembering a state prosecutor who was investigating the gang.

Kofi Annan proposes Syria 'unity government'

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:22 PM PDT

Diplomats say call for interim government that includes Assad followers and opposition members gains traction.


In divided Egypt, U.S. plays all sides

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:17 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ambiguous outcome of Egypt's revolution leaves Washington no choice but to deal with the country's both major players, the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, despite its disagreements with each.

VIDEO: Obama health law faces judgement

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:34 PM PDT

A wide-ranging healthcare reform bill seen as a key achievement of Barack Obama's presidency is facing its moment of judgement in the US Supreme Court.


VIDEO: Eurozone leaders ready for summit

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:26 PM PDT

European Union leaders are preparing to meet for a closely-watched Brussels summit on the fate of the euro.


VIDEO: Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:44 PM PDT

France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s.


Malaysia palmoil giant soars on market debut

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:39 PM PDT

First-day jump in FELDA value reflects investor interest in the world's biggest share sale this year after Facebook.


VIDEO: Obama health law faces judgement

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:34 PM PDT

A wide-ranging healthcare reform bill seen as a key achievement of Barack Obama's presidency is facing its moment of judgement in the US Supreme Court.


VIDEO: Eurozone leaders ready for summit

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:26 PM PDT

European Union leaders are preparing to meet for a closely-watched Brussels summit on the fate of the euro.


VIDEO: Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:44 PM PDT

France is switching off its groundbreaking Minitel service which brought online banking, travel reservations, and porn to millions of users in the 1980s.


10 Ways The 'Dragon's Dogma' Sequel Could Be Better Than The Original

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:28 PM PDT

Capcom has said they want to turn 'Dragon's Dogma' into a major franchise thanks to the new IP's stellar global sales. Here are ten ways the sequel could be better than the first game.


From Annoyance to Harmonizer: Cloud Computing's Maturity Curve

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:07 PM PDT

One of the issues information technology managers raise about cloud computing ? as well as the overlapping ?bring your own device? phenomenon ? is that the stuff end-users bring into the workplace sooner or later become IT?s headache. It may be the security issues that are introduced, it may be the support issues that crop ...


Rebels storm pro-Assad Syrian TV channel

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:59 PM PDT

Damaged buildings are seen after gunmen stormed the headquarters of Al-Ikhbariya news channel near DamascusBEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters on Wednesday, bombing buildings and shooting dead three employees, state media said, in one of the boldest attacks yet on a symbol of the authoritarian state. More than 150 people were killed in fierce fighting across Syria on Wednesday, 86 of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Intensified fighting in the country have driven up the death toll averages to around 100 people per day in the past week. President Bashar al-Assad declared late on Tuesday that his country was "at war". U.S. ...

Chinese paper slams U.S. candidates for playing "China card"

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:09 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top newspaper slammed both U.S. presidential candidates on Thursday for playing the "China card" in their election campaigns, saying the real economic problems confronting the United States were being ignored in the process. In a strongly worded commentary, Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily said it was a "tragedy" for U.S. politics that the country's foreign relations were being sucked in to the domestic presidential election. ...


No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)