Afghan ballots to have 41 candidates for president Philadelphia Daily News | RAHIM FAIEZ and JASON STRAZIUSO | The Associated Press | KABUL - President Hamid Karzai and 40 other candidates will appear on the ballot for president this August in a crowded political lineup Afghanistan's electoral commission chief on Saturday called "shameful." | Karzai is considered the clear...
An illusion of global governance Asia Times | By Jonas Parello-Plesner | Since the onset of the financial crisis there have been suggestions to form a Group of Two (G-2) consisting of the United States and China. This proposal is based on the facts that China is the largest creditor of the US, the US is China's biggest export destination, and...
Oshkosh gets $1.06 billion contract from the Army for new MRAPs for Afghanistan Hartford Courant WASHINGTON (AP) — Oshkosh Corp. won a $1.06 billion Army contract to build new, off-road terrain vehicles to outfit ground forces in , the Pentagon said late Tuesday. | The Oshkosh, Wis.-based vehicle maker beat out three teams for the deal to ...
Iran talks to Asian banks to finance oil field development Daily Star Lebanon | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | - Powered by | DOHA: Iran is in talks with Asian banks on a 1 billion euro ($1.40 billion) bond to finance the development of its largest gas field, as part of its pursuit of billions of energy sector funding, a senior Iran...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Threaten Crackdown CNBC Iranian police broke up a protest in Tehran and the hardline Revolutionary Guards said they would help crush what they called rioters opposing the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. | File photoIranians protest results of the recent presid...
Worst of Crisis May Be Yet to Come: IMF Chief CNBC The worst of the global economic crisis may be yet to come, International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Monday. | Finance ministers of the Group of Eight nations agreed over the weekend that the global economy was showing encoura...
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Schweppes signs three-year soccer deal The Australian | Australian soccer has received a major financial boost on the eve of the Socceroos' World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan. | Schweppes has become the game's official non-alcohol...
Doubts growing over Obama's 'Big Bang' recovery package The Australian | WHEN the White House announced last week that President Barack Obama would be returning to the nation's television screens on Tuesday for a prime-time press conference that would...
Dollar role in India FX basket may change: Chairman of PM's EAC The Times Of India | Text: AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE: The weight of the dollar in the basket of currencies that helps set the rate of India's partially convertible rupee currency may be reduced, a senior Indian govern...
China Investment buying stake in Teck Resources The Tribune San Luis Obispo | Mining company Teck Resources Ltd. says it is selling a 17 percent stake to China Investment Corp. for 1.74 billion Canadian dollars ($1.5 billion) in a bid to reduce its debt load. | The Vancouver-based company said Friday that CIC, the world's la...
Kazakhstan cuts refinancing rate to boost economy The Guardian * Central bank cuts rate to 8.5 pct from 9.0 pct * Says 2009 inflation will not exceed 9 pct (Adds inflation, background) ALMATY, June 10 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's central bank took a step to boost the country's crisis-hit economy on Wednesday by slashing its key refinancing rate to 8.5 percent from the previous rate of 9.0 percent. The financial cr...
Country profile: Afghanistan BBC News | Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan has suffered from such chronic instability and conflict during its modern history that its economy and infrastructure are in ruins, and many of its people are refugees. | Since the fall of the Taliban administration in 2001, adherents of the hardline Islamic movement have re-grouped. It is now a resurgent f...
