China economic policies under fire at Davos forum The Himalayan | DAVOS: Political leaders, central bankers and financiers at the World Economic Forum have attacked China's monetary and trade policy and questioned its ability to tackle an overheating economy. | Top Chinese officials face an increasingly difficult task insisting that Beijing is acting in the inte...
OPEC Unlikely to Cut Supply at March Meet: Qatar ABC News By Stanley Carvalho and Luke Pachymuthu | January 18, 2010 | ABU DHABI (Reuters) - OPEC is unlikely to cut oil supply at its next meeting in March, Qatar's oil minister said on Monday. | U.S. crude traded at $78.45 a barrel on Monday, within the $75 to $80 a barrel range that top oil exporter Saudi ...
A pact with France will keep us fighting fit The Times | Our Armed Forces are not, and never have been, an end in themselves. They have several distinct purposes. | The prime one is, of course, to defend the country and its people if we are subject to actual or threatened invasion. But our Army, Navy and...
China economic policies under fire at Davos forum Zeenews Davos: Political leaders, central bankers and financiers at the World Economic Forum have attacked China's monetary and trade policy and questioned its ability to tackle an overheating economy. | Top Chinese officials face an increasingly difficult t...
China economic policies under fire at Davos forum The Himalayan | DAVOS: Political leaders, central bankers and financiers at the World Economic Forum have attacked China's monetary and trade policy and questioned its ability to tackle an overheating economy. | Top Chinese officials face an increasingly difficult...
Rising oil prices help cushion impact of recession on GCC Arab News | Arab News | JEDDAH: At the start of 2009 the economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), especially its large oil producers, faced a daunting year. Oil prices had fallen precipitously from a high of $145 a barrel in mid-2008 to around $35-$40 ...
Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' to hang for 1988 gas attack The Examiner Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday and sentenced to hang for ordering the most infamous of his crimes, the attacks against the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed more than 5,000 peopl...
Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' to hang for 1988 gas attack The Press Democrat | The fourth death sentence against Ali Hassan al-Majid for crimes against humanity serves as a reminder that victims of Saddam's atrocities remain determined to seek justice, as some politicians stoke the lingering bitterness toward the old Sunni-le...
Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' to hang for 1988 gas attack Houston Chronicle | BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday and sentenced to hang for ordering the most infamous of his crimes, the attacks against the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed more than 5,000 people in clouds of pois...
Saudi stocks expected to 'recoup losses' Arab News | Khalil Hanware & Abdul Jalil Mustafa | Arab News | JEDDAH/AMMAN: Saudi shares lost fresh ground last week with additional pressure coming from China's restrictions on bank loans, which renewed concerns over receding demand for crude oil by the world's second largest economy. | The Tadawul All-Share Index (TASI) shed 2.03 percent last week, crashi...
