DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Russia may help build a nuclear power plant in Syria, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told Reuters on Tuesday as the Kremlin moved to strengthen ties with a Soviet-era ally in the Middle East. On the first state visit to Syria by a Kremlin chief since the Bolshevik Revolution, Russian President Dmitry [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday accused nuclear power North Korea of supplying Syria with weapons of mass destruction. Lieberman’s office quoted him as telling Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at a meeting in Tokyo that such activity threatened to destabilise east Asia as well as the Middle East. “The cooperation [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The three oil companies primarily involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill blamed each other Tuesday for the accident last month that left 11 workers dead and oil still spewing into the Gulf. At a hearing before the Senate Energy and natural Resources Committee, BP (BP), the well’s owner and [...]
(CNN) — Forecasters warned that another round of severe weather may hit Oklahoma on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after a storm system spawned multiple tornadoes and left five people dead. People in northern, western and southern Oklahoma should prepare for severe storms Tuesday afternoon and early evening, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, rescuers [...]
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New York Times: PARIS — President Obama had just flown into Hampton, Va., Sunday morning to deliver a commencement address. But before he donned his silky academic robes, he was on the phone with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, offering urgent advice — and some not so subtle prodding — that Europe needed to try [...]
Euro Erases Gains as Bailout Optimism Ebbs, Chinese Stocks Fall May 11 (Bloomberg) — The euro lost all of yesterday’s gains on concern the $1 trillion bailout will hurt European economic growth. Stocks fell, paring the MSCI World Index’s biggest advance in a year. Chinese shares entered a bear market. The euro weakened 0.8 percent [...]
Jerusalem Post: Defense Minister Ehud Barak stated Tuesday that there is no reason to fear any change in US policy regarding the Dimona reactor. When asked in an Army Radio interview if it was possible that Washington would agree to inspection of the reactor by International Atomic Energy Agency observers, Barak said that during his [...]
(Reuters) – Germany’s cabinet approved the biggest national contribution to a $1 trillion emergency rescue package intended to stabilize the euro as global markets sobered up after Monday’s euphoria Relief at the European Union’s bold move to restore investor confidence gave way on Tuesday to doubts about whether weaker euro zone economies can meet their [...]
May 11 (Bloomberg) — Germany and France are among top- rated euro-area states that may compromise their AAA grades by standing behind the debts of weaker members with their 750 billion-euro ($955 billion) stabilization fund. The package is “making debt profiles deteriorate, potentially damaging the ratings of core sovereigns,†said Stefan Kolek, a strategist at [...]
Danny Glover, Andy Stern The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will turn its attention from healthcare to immigration reform ahead of the 2010 midterm elections. “We are stepping up our immigration reform efforts as a union-wide national campaign the same way we did for healthcare,†Javier Morillo, the union immigration campaign director, told The Ballot [...]
Los Angeles Times: Europe’s $1-trillion rescue plan for its weakest countries sent battered financial markets rebounding dramatically worldwide Monday on hopes that the deal would avert another global economic crisis. The massive loan package hashed out over the weekend by the European Union, and a separate aid program from the European Central Bank, reassured investors [...]
BBC News: The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility for detainees that is distinct from its main prison, the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC. Nine former prisoners have told the BBC that they were held in a separate building, and subjected to abuse. The US military says the main prison, [...]
Telegraph: BP will try again to contain oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, this time with a far smaller funnel than it tried before, as the massive slick threatened Louisiana shores. The company was braced for a grilling in the US Senate on Tuesday over its failure to contain the massive spill. President Barack [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq boosted security around Baghdad and the rest of the country Tuesday, a day after a string of attacks across the country killed 119 people and wounded hundreds. The sheer breadth of the attacks, stretching from cities in the north to the normally peaceful southern port of Basra, was a blow after [...]
