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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Uneasy alliance seeks to depose Morsi

Uneasy alliance seeks to depose Morsi

Uneasy alliance seeks to depose Morsi

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Despite the military's abuses and mistakes, many Egyptians now say they prefer its rule over the domination of the Brotherhood and its Islamist allies

EU demands answers over US bug claims

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:45 PM PDT

A transatlantic row over surveillance has worsened over claims the US bugged EU offices with new revelations compounding Europe's concerns

Kerry claims Mideast peace progress

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 09:38 AM PDT

US secretary of state says progress has been made on resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and both parties have sought his swift return

Syrian regime attacks Homs rebel areas

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 08:54 AM PDT

Several episodes of bombardment have failed to prevent the rebels from having a presence in some of the city's neighbourhoods

US immigration reform faces House hurdle

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:09 AM PDT

Republican-dominated House would allow unauthorised residents to become legal, but no more, says the chairman of the House judiciary committee

China tightens security in restive Xinjiang

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 05:02 AM PDT

Troops have started round-the-clock patrols in the region ahead of the July 5 anniversary of the 2009 riots between local Uighurs and Han Chinese migrants

Obama in $7bn Africa power initiative

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 12:07 PM PDT

Deficit of power generation in African nations is one of the critical infrastructure constraints hampering development and stymying investment into the continent

Move to lower treatment threshold for HIV

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 10:12 AM PDT

An additional 16m people should be given access to antiretroviral therapy, under new treatment guidelines released over the weekend

Ailing hospitals symptomatic of Brazil

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 04:33 AM PDT

While money is lavished on football stadiums ahead of the World Cup, Brazil's public healthcare system is in crisis

US lobbyists rush to defend tax breaks

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 05:40 AM PDT

Last-minute lobbying battle begins in order to preserve industry tax breaks as part of sweeping overhaul of US taxation system
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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Tapie investigated over alleged fraud

Tapie investigated over alleged fraud

Tapie investigated over alleged fraud

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:54 PM PDT

Allegations relate to settlement of commercial dispute during Sarkozy presidency that has dragged in members of French elite. Tapie denies claims
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Tahrir spirit gives way to protest fatigue

Tahrir spirit gives way to protest fatigue

Tahrir spirit gives way to protest fatigue

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT

On the eve of anti-government protests, dread over potential fallout is palpable among ordinary Egyptians as concerns grow over country's economy

Clashes erupt as tensions soar in Egypt

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:46 AM PDT

Rival demonstrations by Islamists and opponents in Cairo attracted thousands as tensions soared in the run-up to anti-Morsi protests on Sunday

Searching for Snowden in Terminal E

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:55 AM PDT

Conspiracy theories fly inside transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport as NSA leaker continues to evade public view and diplomatic pressure builds

S Africa gripped by Mandela’s health

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:31 AM PDT

South Africa is intently following the ups and downs of the former president's more than 20 days in hospital as rumours sweep the country

French minister in new attack on Barroso

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:49 AM PDT

Bricq reignites row between Brussels and Paris saying EU executive head did 'nothing' and argues reappointment 'was not necessarily good'

Supreme Court justice hits out over gay rights ruling

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:34 AM PDT

Third branch of government, at its most conservative in more than 50 years, flexes its muscles as House and Senate lurch from crisis to crisis

Immigration a big test for Republicans

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:50 AM PDT

On immigration, Republicans in the House are torn between the future of their party and the safety of their own seats

Art imitates life of Irish fiscal crisis

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:25 AM PDT

A new play focusing on Dublin's disastrous decision to give a blanket guarantee to its banks – a move that cost taxpayers €64bn – is on tour across the country

German politics slow EU machine

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 10:41 AM PDT

Officials say foot dragging on fiscal union is due to complacency among EU leaders and the stifling effect of Germany's elections

Vatican rocked by fresh laundering claim

Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:07 AM PDT

The arrests come at a sensitive time for the Vatican as Pope Francis presses ahead with reforms to bring the Holy See into line with international financial standards
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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad

Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad

Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 11:22 AM PDT

Three main allies supporting international financial transactions, delivering $500m a month in oil and extending credit lines, says senior economy minister

Gains give Syria’s regime new swagger

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:19 AM PDT

Story of the government's resurgence after 27 months of conflict is as much one of lowered expectations as it is of its own durability

EU reaches €960bn budget deal

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:17 AM PDT

Deal allows for greater flexibility demanded by MEPs to carry over unspent funds from one year to the next and to shift it among headings

Greece faces second sell-off collapse

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 09:14 AM PDT

Greece is struggling to avoid the collapse of the sale of state gaming monopoly Opap amid threats and pressure from bidders to change key terms of the deal

Teflon Merkel sees off Steinbrück in Bundestag

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 07:23 AM PDT

Peer Steinbrück faced an unfair fight at what was billed as the last great confrontation with Angela Merkel before German election campaign begins

Mandela ‘much better today’, says Zuma

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 06:16 AM PDT

South Africa's president has cancelled his trip to Mozambique but says Nelson Mandela is 'much better today' than on Wednesday night

EU bows to Berlin on car emissions

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 11:55 AM PDT

Chancellor obtains delay to EU decision on rules to limit car emissions after lobbying to have the matter dropped from Thursday's meeting in Brussels

Central banks told to hold steady on exit

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:15 AM PDT

Jaime Caruana of the Bank for International Settlements says market volatility is part of the process and should not deter central banks

Obama says no deals in exchange for Snowden

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:53 AM PDT

Barack Obama said the US still had 'a whole lot of business that we do with China and Russia' which should not be jeopardised by one extradition case

Nigerian blockade hits gas industry

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:31 AM PDT

Nigeria is holding its own multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas industry to ransom in a dispute over unpaid fees that has seen shipments blockaded
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Supreme Court boosts same-sex marriage

Supreme Court boosts same-sex marriage

Supreme Court boosts same-sex marriage

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:09 AM PDT

Historic ruling compels federal government to recognise gay and lesbian couples who have legally married in a state that sanctions same-sex wedlock

Rome launches probe into derivatives

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:46 AM PDT

Inquiry into reports that state faced potential losses of billions of euros on contracts that were restructured during the eurozone debt crisis

China’s crunch impact to last for months

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:56 AM PDT

The promise of a backstop helped restore calm to financial markets but the central bank hints at new rules in the Chinese banking industry

‘Buy America’ complicates US-EU talks

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:02 AM PDT

'What we are trying to establish in negotiations is free trade . . . that means not discriminating between European goods and American counterparts'

Sluggish US growth gives Fed cause for caution

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:51 AM PDT

Lower revision of US GDP data offers evidence that growth remained quite sluggish even as the Fed began contemplating slowing its pace of support

Commission to review Vatican bank conduct

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:31 AM PDT

The commissioners have started work gathering documents and information on the activities of the bank and will bypass its secrecy rules if required

Rudd return threatens to upset Abbott

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 03:57 AM PDT

The opposition leader looks set to win a landslide in a September election but Rudd's victory in the Labor leadership vote may still change matters

Coal lobby will be key in US midterm elections

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:19 AM PDT

Republicans were quick to accuse the president of waging a 'war on coal' after he placed climate change at the top of his agenda

EU reform puts onus on farmers to be green

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:07 AM PDT

Overhauled common agricultural policy requires 30 per cent of €278bn in direct subsidy payments to depend on satisfying environmental rules

China’s Xinjiang riots leave 27 dead

Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:37 AM PDT

Knife-wielding mobs attacked police stations in Lukqun township, leaving 17 dead including policemen, before authorities shot and killed 10 rioters
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Qatar emir hands over power to son

Qatar emir hands over power to son

Qatar emir hands over power to son

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:34 PM PDT

In a highly unusual move among the hereditary monarchies of the Gulf, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa has stepped aside to allow his son to take control

Qatar shows how to manage a monarchy

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:34 AM PDT

The gas-rich emirate's infusion of new blood contrasts with the hardened arteries next door in Saudi Arabia and the rulers claimed by the Arab spring

China in fresh bid to calm shaken markets

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT

Central bank pledge to guide interest rates to 'reasonable range' was enough to help Shanghai Composite index recover from early loss to end day flat

Putin rules out sending Snowden back to US

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:04 PM PDT

Russia and China say US accusations that they helped fugitive US former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden escape are unacceptable

Obama lays down conditions for Keystone pipe go-ahead

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 05:31 AM PDT

President announces his first big policy on greenhouse gases with executive orders on emissions and push for co-ordinated international action

Brazil’s love of cars begins to backfire

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 08:26 AM PDT

Protests in Brazil demonstrate the political cost of the ruling party's decision to stake the country's economic future on the automobile

Progress report: EU banking union

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 08:14 AM PDT

Peter Spiegel, Brussels bureau chief, outlines how many of the main elements of the EU's path to banking union have either been water down or delayed

Blow to US Voting Rights Act

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 09:25 AM PDT

By invalidating the central provision of the Voting Rights Act, the US Supreme Court has curbed federal civil rights oversight of state voting law

Berlin and Ankara signal EU compromise

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 04:51 AM PDT

Face-saving compromise agreed to delay new membership talks until later this year in the wake of turbulence on international markets

China factory workers hold US boss hostage

Posted: 25 Jun 2013 06:26 AM PDT

Chinese factory workers are holding the American boss of their small company hostage, accusing him of owing wages and fearing he will default
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Monday, June 24, 2013

Berlusconi found guilty in sex trial

Berlusconi found guilty in sex trial

Berlusconi found guilty in sex trial

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 12:07 PM PDT

Former premier sentenced to seven years in prison and banned from holding public office after being convicted in Milan trial that lasted more than two years

Qatar emir poised to abdicate

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 08:22 AM PDT

Rare voluntary handover seen as a move to cement stability in state that has backed Arab uprising but is yet to hold parliamentary elections

Organised crime soars in wake of crisis

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 10:58 AM PDT

Black market in counterfeit foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals and machine parts doubled to a value of about €2bn in the early years of the recession

Parts of world becoming ‘uninsurable’

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Insurers are concerned that increasing number and value of properties being built along waterways and coastlines is pushing up costs when disasters strike

US-China relations at risk over Snowden

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:44 AM PDT

White House says new push to build 'strategic trust' has been dealt a 'serious setback' over China's decision to let Edward Snowden leave Hong Kong

Egyptian activists refuse to negotiate

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:33 AM PDT

Tamarrod, which says it has collected 15m signatures calling for early presidential elections, says 'departure of Morsi' is only, and final, demand

Warring Republicans endanger Obama agenda

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 06:19 AM PDT

Republican Speaker John Boehner's inability to control his caucus is bad news for backers of comprehensive immigration reform and a debt deal

Barroso responds to French attack

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 09:42 AM PDT

The European Commission president has hit back against Arnaud Montebourg, the leftwing industry minister, who accused him of fueling rightwing populism

Activist who fled China visits Taiwan

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 06:21 AM PDT

Chen Guangcheng, the activist lawyer who fled to the US last year, uses his trip to Taipei to draw regional attention to human rights in China

Fed fights back against ‘feral hogs’

Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:24 AM PDT

Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve, warns that markets should not think the Fed will end up propping up the economy indefinitely
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

India toll rises from ‘Himalayan tsunami’

India toll rises from ‘Himalayan tsunami’

India toll rises from ‘Himalayan tsunami’

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 08:04 AM PDT

India's northern state of Uttarakhand is battling to rescue thousands amid speculation flood disaster is partly linked to overdevelopment of region

Erdogan sees ‘same protest game’ in Turkey and Brazil

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 04:50 AM PDT

Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells rally of supporters in Samsun town that the same outside forces are behind protests in both his own country and Brazil

Snowden fallout hits China and Russia

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 10:45 AM PDT

Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's leaks on cyber surveillance are raising tensions between the US and its big geopolitical rivals

‘Climate bomb’ warning over China coolant release

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 04:25 AM PDT

Some of the world's leading refrigerant producers are threatening to release large amounts of a byproduct that is one of the most potent greenhouse gases

Central banks told to head for exit

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 10:21 AM PDT

Bank for International Settlements' annual report calls on members to re-emphasise focus on inflation and press governments to do more on return to growth

Spanish frustration with Germany grows

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 09:44 AM PDT

Surveys highlight a feeling in Spain that Germany has become too powerful in Europe, and at the same time too reluctant to help the periphery

Stinging French attack on Barroso

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 10:39 AM PDT

Leftwinger Montebourg says the EU has become 'immobile, paralysed' and 'does not respond to any popular aspirations in the areas of industry, the economy and budgets'

Malaysia declares emergency in haze areas

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 05:52 AM PDT

Schools in and around the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur will remain closed and a state of emergency has been declared in parts of Johor

Cleaner air boosts hurricane frequency

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 08:21 AM PDT

Link between higher numbers of Atlantic hurricanes and cleaner air in Europe and North America uncovered by scientists at UK's Met Office

Nine tourists dead in Pakistan attack

Posted: 23 Jun 2013 10:24 AM PDT

Islamic militants wearing police uniforms killed nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani in a remote mountainous area of north Pakistan
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Time for ‘ever closer’ EU over, say Dutch

Time for ‘ever closer’ EU over, say Dutch

Time for ‘ever closer’ EU over, say Dutch

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT

Coalition lends support to moves by UK premier to curb bloc's powers. Netherlands paper lists 54 competencies that should stay at national level
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Friday, June 21, 2013

China pulls bank system back from brink

China pulls bank system back from brink

China pulls bank system back from brink

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:57 AM PDT

Financial strains are the state's own making since it still controls the banks, but even if a crisis is improbable, the cash squeeze is unsettling

Obama and Kerry split on foreign policy

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 10:30 AM PDT

The main division in the US approach to international affairs, from Syria to Israel-Palestinian talks, is between the president and secretary of state

Party quits Greek coalition in state TV row

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 06:40 AM PDT

Democratic Left party quits the governing coalition after a row about the future of the state broadcaster

Putin seeks to revive Russian economy

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:25 AM PDT

President says trans-Siberian railway will be upgraded to become 'artery linking Europe to Asia Pacific' as Moscow pivots towards China

Rousseff struggles to stop Brazil protests

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 11:01 AM PDT

Brazil's president held talks with ministers on emergency measures to deal with the biggest demonstrations sweeping Brazil in decades

Obama orders release of spying details

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 09:44 AM PDT

Administration's defence of US intelligence runs in tandem with disclosures based on leaks by former contractor to National Security Agency

Rama aims for victory at Albanian polls

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 09:54 AM PDT

Socialist leader says corruption has worsened during eight years of rule by Berisha's pro-business Democratic party. 'There is no rule of law'

Fed decision not timed well, says FOMC member

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 07:15 AM PDT

James Bullard, St Louis Federal Reserve president, says he wanted to signal more strongly the Fed's willingness to defend inflation goal

Tapie investigation draws in French elite

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 08:54 AM PDT

France's most colourful businessman denies allegations of favour-peddling, to the tune of $400m, at the heart of Nicolas Sarkozy's former administration

China and Taiwan agree services trade deal

Posted: 21 Jun 2013 01:19 AM PDT

The new pact, signed in Shanghai on Friday, will open areas such as financial services, retail and travel to greater levels of cross-strait investment
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