Putin ally warns on cost of sanctions

Putin ally warns on cost of sanctions
Austria arrests Ukrainian oligarch at US request
Missing airliner puts Malaysia to test
Rouhani seals gas deal with Oman
Bayern Munich boss jailed for tax evasion
Italy tax-cutting plans fuel debt worries
Japan to end ban on weapons exports
Malema bids to turn SA division into votes
Gaza militants agree to ceasfire
Fischer defends time at Citi

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:31 AM PDT

Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister, says Russia faces the prospect of no economic growth if the west imposes sanctions against Moscow

Austria arrests Ukrainian oligarch at US request

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:39 AM PDT

Officials say the action is linked to an ongoing FBI investigation but the move is seen as putting pressure on Russia over its intervention in Crimea

Missing airliner puts Malaysia to test

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:01 AM PDT

The country's opaque political system is put in the spotlight amid conflicting statements from officials about the disappearance of flight MH370

Rouhani seals gas deal with Oman

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:19 AM PDT

Tehran will supply natural gas to its ally following the signing of a deal during the visit of Iran's leader to Muscat, his first to an Arab neighbour

Bayern Munich boss jailed for tax evasion

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:49 AM PDT

Embarrassment for football club's blue-chip sponsors as Uli Hoeness is jailed for three and a half years after admitting to evading €28.5m of taxes

Italy tax-cutting plans fuel debt worries

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:53 PM PDT

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's planned reforms have triggered concern in Brussels and Frankfurt that targets for deficit reduction will be missed

Japan to end ban on weapons exports

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 04:07 AM PDT

The government seeks to cut away postwar restraints on the military and bolster its defence industry after ruling LDP produces looser guidelines

Malema bids to turn SA division into votes

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:54 AM PDT

'The only thing that has changed is the government of white people has been replaced with a government of black people'

Gaza militants agree to ceasfire

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 03:17 AM PDT

Rockets fired by Islamic Jihad militants and Israel retaliation marked sharpest hostilities between the two sides since Operation Pillar of Defence in 2012

Fischer defends time at Citi

Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:19 AM PDT

Smooth progress through Senate hearing – and recent rule change that allows passage of nominees by a majority – suggests he will rapidly be confirmed