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CAIRO, Egypt — An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year to perform a religious pilgrimage. He never returned.
Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on global industrial and oil powers Wednesday at the UN climate conference -- and lost.
A major rift surfaced at UN climate talks between emerging giants and countries most exposed to the ravages of global warming, as top polluter China took aim at rich nations for failing to act.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will submit to a grilling Thursday by furious MPs demanding to know how Al-Qaeda bombers slipped past security cordons to launch devastating attacks in Baghdad.
Iraqi insurgents linked with al Qaeda claimed responsibility for bombings this week that killed 112 people and said their campaign of violence would continue.
So much for "hope and change." With his address to the nation about Afghanistan, President Obama resembled his disastrous predecessors Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world’s largest producer, will supply full volumes of crude to refiners in China, South Korea and Japan for January.
COPENHAGEN — Two top Obama administration officials arrived Wednesday at U.N.-sponsored climate talks offering both diplomacy and a tough line: The U.S. is willing to be a full partner in fighting climate change, but the real problem is with China and the developing world.
WASHINGTON -- For the past week, I have been mulling over two intriguing things President Obama said the day he announced his Afghanistan policy -- one about the political strategy that underlies his presidency, and the other about the delicate question of negotiating with the Taliban . The setting was a luncheon for columnists in the White House library. It was Dec. 1, and the president was ...
China on Thursday tried to downplay a rift that emerged among developing nations at climate talks in Copenhagen, after Tuvalu called on big emerging economies to take on emissions reduction targets.
All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” . . . Whatever are they talking about?
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The following stocks may rise or fall in Persian Gulf markets. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are from the last close.
Amman - Islamic banks could be facing new pressures in the wake of the financial crisis that hit Dubai last month. The Islamic financial system expanded around the world during 2009 thanks to the relative immunity it appeared to enjoy as the conventi...
Amman - Arab stock markets suffered from inertia throughout 2009, failing to recover a major part of the losses they incurred due to the global financial crisis that erupted in late 2008...
The Greenwich Land Trust (GLT) held its annual meeting at the Round Hill Country Club and used the opportunity to take account of the 729 acres of woods, orchard, meadow and wetlands it has locked away for future generations.
Washington (AFP) Dec 9, 2009 - An Al-Qaeda group in Iraq claimed responsibility Wednesday for bombings the day before in Baghdad that killed 127 people, a US-based monitoring website said.
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