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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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