The Debt Election
There will be no downgrades as a result of the supercommittee’s long-expected failure and likely none for the next year as a fickle American electorate decides whether it is going back into the arms...
Category: Politics
Iranian protesters storm British embassy
(Reuters) – Iranian protesters stormed two British Embassy compounds in Tehran Tuesday, smashing windows, hurling petrol bombs and burning the British flag in a protest against sanctions imposed by Britain, live Iranian television showed. Iran’s...
Durban Climate Change Conference 2011 opens in disarray
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...
Putin warns West as he launches presidential bid
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sternly warned the West not to interfere in Russia’s elections, as he formally launched his campaign to reclaim the presidency in a speech Sunday before thousands of flag-waving supporters. Putin stepped...
Germany, France plan quick new Stability Pact
Echoing a Reuters report on Friday from Brussels, the Sunday newspaper said the French and German leaders were prepared to back a deal with other euro countries that might induce the ECB to intervene...
Zimbabwe women accused of raping men ‘for rituals’
Zimbabwean police believe there is a nationwide syndicate of women raping men, possibly to use their semen for use in rituals that claim to make people wealthy. It has taken more than a year for...
WHO warns of untreatable tuberculosis
The World Health Organisation is warning of the potential for an untreatable form of tuberculosis to develop on Australia’s doorstep. It says infections of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) in Papua New Guinea’s remote south-west...
Egyptians vote in first post-Mubarak election
Nov 28 (Reuters) – Egyptians voted in droves on Monday in the first election since the fall of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, giving Islamists a chance to make political gains even as the army...
Police arrest Occupy LA protesters who blocked traffic
(Reuters) – Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on some 2,000 anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall before blocking...
Euro zone staring into the abyss, waiting for ECB
Unless European leaders agree on a political remedy for their sovereign debt crisis at a December 9 summit, and the European Central Bank then intervenes massively to support government bonds and European banks, the...
