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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Assad says Syria to get Russian missiles

Assad says Syria to get Russian missiles


Assad says Syria to get Russian missiles

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT

Syria's president says in a television interview that Russia is fulfilling its agreement to deliver an S-300 air defence missile system

Canada turns to Kerry allies on Keystone

Posted: 30 May 2013 04:04 AM PDT

Former aides to Obama and Kerry are among lobbyists pushing the contentious Keystone tar sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico

Battle ahead to relax Swiss banking law

Posted: 30 May 2013 10:27 AM PDT

Switzerland's parliament is due to vote on resolving a dispute with the US, but there is so far little indication that the legislation commands a majority

Merkel party figures criticise Hollande

Posted: 30 May 2013 12:51 PM PDT

Merkel's allies criticise Hollande after the French president says it is not for the European Commission to dictate the pace of reform in France

Stockholm moves staff to riot-hit areas

Posted: 30 May 2013 10:05 AM PDT

Many of the moves were planned before the riots, and will cut costs 25 per cent, while it is unclear what effect they will have on local employment

EU agrees to end decades of overfishing

Posted: 30 May 2013 03:10 AM PDT

Deal to end overfishing could see stocks soar by 15m tonnes by 2020 and end practice of discarding millions of tonnes of unwanted fish

Offshore wealth grows despite crackdown

Posted: 30 May 2013 10:28 AM PDT

Robust health of offshore industry is likely to fuel dispute over role of tax havens already under pressure from governments struggling with deficits

EU groups complain of lost China revenues

Posted: 30 May 2013 05:20 AM PDT

European companies operating in China claim regulatory hurdles could be costing them as much as €17.5bn in missed revenues

French unions make deals on labour reform

Posted: 30 May 2013 09:43 AM PDT

Move towards greater flexibility in employment terms for businesses, along the lines of decade-old reforms in Germany, is beginning to bear fruit

Brussels throws ‘grenade’ with benefits case

Posted: 30 May 2013 01:15 PM PDT

European Commission challenges the UK's policy of making non-UK nationals from other EU states take an additional test to qualify for benefits

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