International Business News - us http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The U.S. is set to suspend a trade deal with Bolivia that is worth 20,000 Bolivian jobs and $150 million a year, but President Evo Morales says South America's poorest country shouldn't worry. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/146996-bolivia-morales.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/morales-bolivia-should-not-fear-us-blockade.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/morales-bolivia-should-not-fear-us-blockade.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:24:48 EDT As of Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4-180.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:11:52 EDT In an effort to help the United States counter al-Qaida after the 9/11 attack, Iran rounded up hundreds of Arabs who had crossed the border from Afghanistan, expelled many of them and made copies of nearly 300 of their passports, a former Bush administration official said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/former-officials-say-iran-helped-on-al-qaida.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:23:30 EDT A Serbian court has freed a former diplomat suspected of helping a student facing assault charges in the United States flee to Serbia, a court official said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/detention-revoked-for-diplomat-in-us-fugitive-case.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:12:27 EDT The U.S. military says an American soldier has been fatally shot by an al-Qaida in Iraq extremist. An Iraqi policeman was also killed in the fighting. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/us-soldier-killed-in-iraq.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:03:08 EDT A top Iranian military official on Tuesday urged Iraq to reject a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal, calling the agreement a "disgrace." Gen. Masoud Jazayeri's comments came as Iraq's parliamentary speaker arrived in Tehran to discuss the deal and as Iraq's foreign minister told reporters in Baghdad that Iraq and the U.S. were close to reaching an agreement, though obstacles remain. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/iran-opposes-us-iraq-security-deal.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:02:35 EDT A planned multibillion dollar U.S. arms sale to Taiwan threatens China's national security and has cast a pall over military relations between Beijing and Washington, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/146640-taiwan-us-china.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/china-says-us-arms-sale-to-taiwan-harms-ties.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/china-says-us-arms-sale-to-taiwan-harms-ties.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:27:51 EDT South Korea's foreign minister has called for a quick parliamentary ratification of the country's free trade deal with the United States to prevent a new U.S. administration from demanding a renegotiation of the pact. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/skorean-fm-calls-for-ratification-of-korea-us-fta.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:55:47 EDT As of Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, at least 539 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Monday at 10 a.m. EDT. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/us-military-deaths-in-afghanistan-region-at-539.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:11:03 EDT As of Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, at least 4,178 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4-178.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:50:29 EDT A North Korean defector gave a piano recital Monday at the State Department, telling assembled diplomats and officials that the ability to freely listen to music from other countries can influence repressed North Koreans' view of the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/nkorean-defector-gives-piano-recital.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:08:40 EDT A North Korean defector gave a piano recital Monday at the State Department, telling assembled diplomats and officials that the ability to freely listen to music from other countries can influence repressed North Koreans' view of the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/nkorean-defector-gives-piano-recital.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:53:56 EDT China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned $6.5 billion package of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, American officials told The Associated Press on Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/pentagon-china-cancels-some-military-contacts.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:38:06 EDT The United States has opened a trade office in Libya, authorities in Tripoli said Monday, in the latest step in a concerted push to normalize relations after three decades of confrontations and sanctions imposed by Washington on the Arab nation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/us-opens-trade-office-in-libya.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:35:03 EDT Iran says it has not received any request from the United States to establish a diplomatic outpost in Tehran. Hasan Qashqavi, spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, told reporters on Monday that Washington has not made a "formal" request to assign diplomats in the Iranian capital. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/iran-no-us-request-on-diplomatic-post.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:34:34 EDT As of Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, at least 4,177 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4-177.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:05:18 EDT A Pakistani wish list for the next U.S. president might read something like this: an end to cross-border strikes on militants, more aid for the country's battered economy and greater support for its elected government. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/pakistanis-eye-us-presidential-candidates.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:07:31 EDT As of Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008, at least 4,177 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/us-military-deaths-in-iraq-war-at-4-177.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:31:48 EDT President Evo Morales said Saturday that Bolivia does not need U.S. help to control its coca crop, stepping up his anti-Washington rhetoric days after rejecting an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over the South American nation's territory. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/145324-aptopix-bolivia-us-drug-flights.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/morales-ups-rhetoric-against-us-anti-drug-aid.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/morales-ups-rhetoric-against-us-anti-drug-aid.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:40:20 EDT China hopes a historic $700 billion U.S. government bailout of the financial industry will help stabilize global markets and restore investor confidence, the central bank said in a notice on its Web site Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/china-hopes-us-bailout-bill-can-stabilize-markets.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:49:55 EDT