strapped Europe scrambles to woo China's support for a financial rescue package, human rights groups and dissidents are warning that in taking such help, the West will sacrifice some leverage over China.
To clinch a deal, Chinese negotiators will (...)
strapped Europe, China is an appealing source of financing. But the response to an attempt by a Chinese businessman to open a leisure resort in Iceland suggests growing suspicion and a potential backlash that could stifle the relationship.
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starved rebels Thursday won more than $1.1 billion of aid at a conference of Western and Arab powers that focused on the end-game for Muammar Gaddafi and the country's civil war.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said talks were under way with (...)
strapped government promised Monday to raise an additional €11.8 billion through 2013, with a crackdown on tax evasion.
Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou announced the measures a year after his country was granted an international bailout (...)
conscious travelers are taking to water this summer for their holidays, discovering river cruising holidays where their boat is their hotel and they wake up with a new view every day.
Cruise website CruiseCritic.co.uk (www.cruisecritic.co.uk) has (...)
rich cricket board could lose up to $10 million in revenue following the scrapping of this month's tour of Pakistan, domestic media reported on Friday.
“We will know the exact figure after the finance committee meeting, but it should be roughly (...)
rich Indian Premier League has lost much of its sheen before it has started as foreign stars are being forced to drop out due to injuries and Test commitments.
Team owners will save millions of dollars in player fees since Australians and New (...)
Hamad bin Abdullah bin Saad Al-Mousa as Administrative Adviser at the Ministry of Defense and Aviation.
2- Eng. Ziad bin Humod bin Mohammed Al-Zahrani as Oil Adviser at the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
3- Abdulaziz bin Saud bin (...)
EVER CAPITOL HILL RAID HAS INFURIATED CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES, WHO SAY IT IGNORED CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS DESIGNED TO SHIELD LAWMAKERS FROM EXECUTIVE-BRANCH HARASSMENT.
HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT EARLIER ON WEDNESDAY SAID (...)
strapped government to make huge savings in hard currency and increase social sector spending on poverty reduction programmes.
It has also boosted the country's credit rating and investor confidence further strengthening the national economy.
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and-stock deal worth about $36 billion in order to gain more business customers and more wireless airwaves to transmit calls. Nextel shares fell 2 percent to $29.40 after rising earlier. Analysts said it might take a few years for the two companies (...)
rich telecommunications stocks like Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom.
"It's not an environment, from the point of view of valuations, where you would want to be overly defensive and obviously the big story in terms of style is play on the hunger for (...)