EU ministers press Greece for budget cuts Al Jazeera | Eurozone finance ministers have pressed Greece to prepare new budget cuts and conclude negotiations with bank creditors on a massive debt writedown within days to avoid a damaging default. | The ministers called on Greece and its EU-IMF auditors "to agree the key parameters of an ambitious adjustm...
Conservative fantasies on the miracles of market Al Jazeera | - A central doctrine of evangelicals for the "free market" is its capacity for innovation: New ideas, new technologies, new gadgets - all flow not from governments, but from individuals and businesses, allowed to flourish in the market, we are told...
Failing upwards: Living in a bureaucratic world Al Jazeera | There are three main frames people use to understand why the world is the way it is. Each has truth in it, and each can be found among intellectuals as well as ordinary folks. A fourth way has a more underground existence, and is rarely seen as the...
Captain of Doomed Cruise Ship Says Course Change Was an Order The New York Times | GIGLIO, Italy — New evidence emerged Wednesday that suggested the captain of the Costa Concordia had been repeatedly ordered by superiors to deviate from its course on Jan. 13 and head toward picturesque Giglio Island off the Tuscan coast, wh...
Government to Open the File of Private Funds All Africa Egypt Online (Cairo)-Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri ordered opening the file of private funds and studying its conditions to uncover the truth for the public, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga announced on Thursday ...
ESE Gains Nation 16.4 Billion All Africa Egypt Online (Cairo)-The Egyptian stocks soared to a three-month high on Thursday 26/01/2012 after Wednesday's celebrations of the first anniversary of the January 25 Revolution passed peacefully. The value of gain realized by the bourse reached near...
New Programs to Support Exports of Various Economic Sectors All Africa Egypt Online (Cairo)-Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, Dr. Mahmoud Eissa said that the next few days will witness the finalization of new standards for the disbursement of support for exports to be submitted to the exporting councils for consid...
Negotiations With WB and ADB to Borrow U.S. One Billion All Africa Egypt Online (Cairo)-Following a meeting of the ministerial committee under Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri on Thursday 26/01/2012, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayza Abul Naga said that there are currently talks with the World...
Chronicle of a Revolution-in-Progress CounterPunch | 1 January : Egypt wakes to news of the attack on the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve. Twenty Copts are killed as well as the church’s Muslim police guard. More than 100 are injured. No group claims responsibility. | 1...
Violence surges in Homs as the U.N. debates a resolution on Syria Foreign Policy | Violence surges in Homs as the U.N. debates a resolution on Syria | Around 60 people have been killed in the restive city of Homs in the past two days in a brutal siege by Syrian security forces and shabbiha, militiamen, according to activists and ...
World Economic Forum Davos2012: Arabs to Davos: invest in us, don't fear us The Times Of India DAVOS, SWITZERLAND: Leaders of the Arab Spring sought to assure the world's elite in Davos that the rise of political Islam is not a threat to democracy, and pleaded for help creating jobs and satisfying the hunger of their people for a better life. ...
EU ministers press Greece for budget cuts Al Jazeera | Eurozone finance ministers have pressed Greece to prepare new budget cuts and conclude negotiations with bank creditors on a massive debt writedown within days to avoid a damaging default. | The ministers called on Greece and its EU-IMF auditors "to agree the key parameters of an ambitious adjustment programme as soon as possible," Jean-Claude Ju...
Muslim Brotherhood not in Egypt presidency race Zeenews Cairo: The Muslim Brotherhood, the big winners of Egypt's parliamentary vote, will not field a candidate for the Egyptian presidency, its leader Mohammed Badie said on Thursday. | "The Muslim Brotherhood will not support (former member) Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh or any candidate who has an Islamic reference in the Presidential Elections," he said, q...
