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India's Singh seeks better intelligence ties in war on terrorism
Washington - The United States and India should seek to improve intelligence sharing and cooperation to combat terrorism, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. While Washington and New Dehli already have a solid relationship when it comes...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ India (World) ]

Hungarian premier seeks to ease investors' concerns over corruption
Budapest - Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai met the ambassadors of nine wealthy nations on Monday, five days after they issued an open letter warning that corruption in the country could scare off foreign investors. The letter ... did not crit...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Germans have 'special responsibility to Israel: Westerwelle - Update
Jerusalem - Germans have a special responsibility toward Israel, visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Jerusalem Monday, as he toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Jordan's king dissolves lower house, orders early elections
Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday issued a decree dissolving the lower house of parliament as of Tuesday, according to a royal court statement. The monarch also issued another decree ordering early elections to be held for the election of a...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Singh: Global coordination must continue as India's clout grows
Washington - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh touted his country's rise as a global economic power Monday and said coordination of economic policies was critical as the world emerges from its deepest recession in a generation. Speaking to the US ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Iraqi parliament sends elections law back to presidency - Summary
Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers on Monday returned a new elections law to the Iraqi presidency without including amendments the vice president had requested when he vetoed a previous version. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim, vetoed a previo...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

DNA proves remains found in Lebanon are of British journalist
Beirut - A British forensic team in Lebanon said DNA results proved that the body found last week in eastern Lebanon is that of a British journalist kidnapped by Palestinian militants 24 years ago. A British embassy spokeswoman in Beirut said the bod...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Political situation in Bosnia 'bleak,' UN diplomats say
New York - United Nations Security Council members said Monday the political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina has further deteriorated because of continued divisions in the top leadership in Sarajevo. A report by High Representative Valentin Inzko, th...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ US (World) ]

US acknowledges possible delay in Iraqi elections
Washington - An Iraqi parliamentary election scheduled for next year could be delayed because of disagreements over a law to govern the elections, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. Clinton expressed confidence that the Iraqis ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ US (World) ]

Tehran threatens to enrich uranium locally if IAEA deal fails
Tehran - Tehran on Monday warned that if a uranium exchange deal proposed by the international community failed, Iran would enrich uranium by itself, the official news agency IRNA reported. If the uranium for the Tehran reactor is not provided via t...

[Posted on : 2009-11-23 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

 

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