Greece to Sell Assets to Help Pay Down Deficit Greece announced Wednesday its plans for a big sale of state-owned assets, as the struggling government moved to shrink its huge budget deficit and fulfill the terms of an international rescue package.
The government will sell 49 percent of the state railroad, list ports...
Israel’s Strategic Failure Outrage reigns as Israel writhes, impaled on the horns of the same old dilemma once again.
It is an old and familiar story. Pursuing its security in a hostile environment, Israel takes a risky and perhaps a radical step. (...) Waves of international outrage flood the...
North Korea: The Plot Thickens A warship mysteriously sunk, the ailing, ageing Dear Leader trundles overland for frank words from his benefactor. What next? The dying days of the world's only hereditary Stalinist state, or a standoff just like all those before?
After a period of relative quietness,...
Can Kosovo Make it Without NATO? Back in 2003, when U.S. officials optimistically predicted that American forces would be "greeted as liberators" by the Iraqi people, their minds probably conjured images of the mass euphoria that welcomed NATO troops to Kosovo in 1999. During that war, cheering...
Ukraine-Russia relations: Why Kiev made a dramatic U-turn back to Five years after the Orange Revolution turned the huge post-Soviet state toward the West, newly elected President Viktor Yanukovich has turned it back toward Moscow in just a few months.
Some describe the twist as a pragmatic move to restore the economic synergies of the...
Turkish-Russian strategic depth in South Caucasus Turkey’s recent shuttle diplomacy between Moscow, Baku and Tbilisi has indirectly confirmed the strategic depth of its foreign policy as the country seeks to become a regional leader and increase its role at the Eurasian level. Cordial relations with the South Caucasus...
EU says 'progress possible' on nuclear swap deal with Iran A Turkish-Brazilian deal to help Iran swap nuclear fuel cannot be considered a breakthrough unless it is fundamentally based on a fuel-swap proposal made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last year, a senior EU diplomat said (...).
After talks with Brazil...
NPT Meet Draws Thousands of Anti-Nukes Activists UNITED NATIONS, May 3, 2010 (IPS) - Japanese women in kimonos carrying signs urging "No More Hiroshima", an 80-year-old grandmother, and 18 mayors from around the world were just some of the almost 15,000 people who marched in New York City Sunday to rally for the...
Nuclear Talks at U.N. Open,With Focus on Iran UNITED NATIONS — The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the United States and other nuclear powers on Monday of trying to intimidate non-nuclear countries and said the Americans were the “main suspect” in the stockpiling, spread and threat of...
A Green President for Colombia by J. Restrepo BOGOTA, Apr 29, 2010 (IPS) - Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus of the Green Party has been gaining as many as 10,000 new fans a day on Facebook. From just 200 friends at the start, he now has more than 450,000.
But his popularity is not limited to social...
