Negotiations over a controversial anti-piracy agreement have been described as a “masquerade” by a key Euro MP. Kader Arif, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), resigned over the issue on...
On October 1, 2011, eight ACTA negotiating partners signed what will become the highest-standard plurilateral agreement ever achieved concerning the enforcement of intellectual property rights. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a groundbreaking initiative...
The Taliban say they have reached a preliminary agreement to set up a political office, possibly in Qatar, as part of Western plans to end the war. A statement confirmed the move, which has...
(multimedia) As North Korea mourns the death of its “Dear Leader,” CNN’s Anna Coren looks at how the state controls its people.
Little by little China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing’s economic interests in the region. In the past three weeks Beijing has...
If history teaches us anything, it is that it repeats itself. In 2016, according to the Inter-national Monetary Fund (IMF), China’s economy will overtake America’s. Chinese GDP, assuming an average annual growth rate over...
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat, amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power. The navy...
The US said that China signing up to a such a deal was a “basic requirement” for its own participation but even then, it offered no guarantees. Meanwhile China and the G77 group of developing...
China has warned “external forces” not to get involved in its maritime disputes with neighbouring countries over the South China Sea. In comments apparently directed at the US, Premier Wen Jiabao said that the...
Documents obtained by Fox News suggest that for decades Pakistan spread nuclear weapon technology around the globe in exchange for cash, political influence and help with its own atomic bomb program. Among those on...
