Obama faces renewed scrutiny on terror

Obama faces renewed scrutiny on terror
Global Insight: Debt threat to China’s financial system
China lifts lid on military secrecy
IMF cuts global economic outlook
Venezuela opposition continues protests
Judges bar Musharraf from election race
Cyprus leader attacks central bank chief
Venezuela forces Cuba’s pace of change
Italy faces test over president vote
India’s first theme park opens its gates

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 11:41 AM PDT

Republican backing for president could be brief after Mitch McConnell said that complacency that prevailed before September 11 had returned

Global Insight: Debt threat to China’s financial system

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 05:05 AM PDT

China's banking system, tightly controlled by the Communist party, is unlikely to undergo calamitous collapse, but slow erosion is probably under way

China lifts lid on military secrecy

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 05:06 AM PDT

Ministry of National Defense report marks the first time the world's largest standing army by headcount gives this level of detail on its structure

IMF cuts global economic outlook

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 08:36 AM PDT

Main concerns for the fund include the uneven recovery among countries, the eurozone's ability to end its crisis, and the US and Japan's public debt

Venezuela opposition continues protests

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 09:44 AM PDT

With Henrique Capriles refusing to accept defeat and reiterating calls for a recount, there is a turbulent atmosphere reminiscent of the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez

Judges bar Musharraf from election race

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 10:22 AM PDT

An appellate panel in Peshawar disqualified the former military ruler from running for a parliamentary seat in a northwestern district

Cyprus leader attacks central bank chief

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 07:51 AM PDT

Nicos Anastasiades intensifies the dispute by making accusations against Panicos Demetriades in a letter to Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president

Venezuela forces Cuba’s pace of change

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 08:15 AM PDT

Havana is slowly making reforms, but it has yet to make some of the biggest – and if Venezuela pulls its subsidy it may have no choice but to act fast

Italy faces test over president vote

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 07:42 AM PDT

Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Democrats, and Silvio Berlusconi, the centre-right leader, are due to meet again to pursue talks over a joint candidate

India’s first theme park opens its gates

Posted: 16 Apr 2013 04:18 AM PDT

The opening of an Indian theme park marks a first in a 1.2bn-strong market where the likes of Disney and Universal Studios have feared to tread