The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way but no consensus on what’s going to spur job growth and prevent another global econ…
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Deployment may strengthen repressive regime in Tehran and could lead to action against US interests in regionIran greeted news of the US plans to station missile defences in neighbouring Arab states with a stony official silence today. While the development [...]
Israel has been pushing for tougher sanctions against Iran and would welcome a hardening of US policyIsrael’s government has long tried to raise international concern about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and is likely to welcome the new US deployments in the Gulf if it signals a hardening of policy.Israel, itself a major but undeclared nuclear power, [...]
Baptists who wanted to start orphanage in Dominican Republic believed to have lacked paperwork amid trafficking fearsA group of 10 American Baptists were being held in Port-au-Prince today after trying to take 33 children out of Haiti.The church group, most of them from Idaho, allegedly lacked the proper documents when they were arrested on Friday [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has begun looking for places other than the heart of New York City to prosecute the accused September 11 attack plotters in the face of fierce criticism tied to security and costs, U.S. officials said on …
The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina.
US interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin AmericaWhen I write about US foreign policy in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these [...]
The U.S. economy probably grew in the closing months of 2009 at the fastest pace in almost four years as factories cranked up assembly lines, economists said ahead of a government report today.
‘If they stayed 30 years I’d be happy!’ Haitians desperate for food, water and medicine look to Washington for helpOfficially, Haiti’s government is directing earthquake relief efforts but the hand-written sign in Delmas, one of Port-au-Prince’s devastated districts, told a different story: “Hello America! We need help here. Urgent! Thank you America!”The plea cut through [...]
• Carmaker delivered $2.7bn profit for 2009• Ford looking to capitalise on Toyota’s global recallFord has cemented its position as the healthiest of Detroit’s “big three” carmakers by delivering a $2.7bn (£1.6bn) profit for 2009 as cost cuts, new models and a surplus at its credit arm helped the company to its first year in [...]