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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded over $175 million for advance vehicle research and development to 15 states in response to President Obama’s call for more fuel efficient cars to reduce oil ...
China’s first aircraft carrier made its debut five-day voyage on August 15th, returning to a crowd who welcomed the giant vessel belonging to the resurgent People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with fireworks. However, at ...
Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, gave as good as she got on a popular American TV comedy show (August 15) answering questions both serious and off-the wall posed by host Stephen ...
The UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) presented a preliminary assessment (August 24) of the state of organization among UN member states when it comes to dealing with the possibility of cyber attacks. The report ...
Europe has reacted coolly to the demand (August 27) by International Monetary Fund’s new chief, Christine Lagarde, for Europe to inject more money into its capital-starved banks. In a speech to central bankers meeting ...
Republicans in the US House of Representatives have introduced legislation threatening to cut off US funding to the United Nations unless certain reforms are undertaken. The bill is expected to pass in the Republican-controlled House ...
Exxon Mobile, America’s largest company, won a major contract to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean (August 31), beating competitors such as BP (British Petroleum) which had been trying to land the deal ...
Switzerland has decided it will not hand over private bank data to the United States as demanded in a letter to the Swiss government published in two Swiss newspapers on August 31 from US Deputy ...
The US State Department has gone on the offensive to counter efforts by Republicans in the US House of Representatives to cut off funding to the United Nations unless specific reforms are made. In a ...
Even as the US House of Representatives approved a bill (October 14) to slash US dues to the United Nations by half, a recent national opinion poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans support ...
Trade negotiators meeting in Geneva are looking at accepting a mini trade deal in order to ward off sounding the death knell for the global free trade accord known as the Doha round by December ...
A US Embassy cable released by Wikileaks (September 01) has revealed that United Nations peacekeepers from Benin stationed in the Ivory Coast lured underage girls in the town of Toulepleu to engage in sexual activity ...
US environmental groups and progressive Democrats are furious at a decision by the Obama administration to abandon plans to impose stricter ozone pollution standards and stick with the looser Bush-era standards. The announcement (September 2 ...
China may have a convertible currency by 2015 according to reports in the state-run press and comments made to European Union officials in Beijing. If it happens, it would mean that the yuan would become ...
There may be a major shift in transatlantic relationships going on according to the Trans-Atlantic Trends 2011 survey released by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the private Italian foundation, Compagnia di ...
For young bloggers and activists from around the world, especially those participating in the Arab Spring revolts of 2011, there is no question that Internet connectivity has become the weapon of choice for waging cultural ...
Only weeks after the Obama administration denounced efforts by Congressional Republicans to slash US contributions to the United Nations, the world body announced a proposed budget for the next two years of $5.2 billion ...
Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's insistence that recent US actions regarding China will not trigger a trade war, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated that China would keep its currency stable in order ...
The candidate Obama vowed that he would address climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollutants. Copenhagen was an occasion when, besides opposition from the Chinese authorities, every one was ...
Seen from outside the box –the American one, that is– many wonder what the USA is or is not doing to move forward in the field of energy. Not so much what the giants of ...
Although no official dares state it openly, the subtext of trade talks going on in Geneva in mid-July indicated that if the Doha free trade accord is not actually dead, there is unlikely to be ...
An agreement signed between the US and Romania to base anti-missile interceptors on Romanian territory as part of a NATO missile-defense plan has caused renewed friction with Russia. On September 13 US Secretary of State ...
President Barack Obama has inaugurated a plan in an address to the UN to persuade emerging and established democracies to make their governments more transparent by getting citizens involved and using new technologies to make ...
The absence of 14 of the world's leading democracies at the UN-sponsored Durban III anti-racism review conference insured that the ten-year commemoration in New York (September 22) was largely a non-event. The US, Canada ...
In the two months since taking the helm of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde has shaken up the staid old boys club with a distinctive leadership style that includes telling some uncomfortable truths about ...
The world’s richest economies’ support for agriculture in 2010 was the lowest level in nearly three decades, according to new figures released by the Paris-based OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). The drop ...
According to a Geneva-based estate planning group, the main risk with the current eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the US deficit crisis is that they may both become ‘self-fulfilling prophecies’. Philippe Szokoloczy Syllaba, founder of ...
The United Nations has confirmed that the overall UN financial situation seems to have improved this year, despite the world economic downturn and despite non-payment by some of the UN’s biggest contributors, notably the ...
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