Talks on how to approach U.S. corporate tax reform are stirring to life again as Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor backed of push to give multinational companies a break on money imported to the U.S. from their subsidiaries owned in other countries.
Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Charles Plosser gave a speech titled “Exit” on Friday – referring to the Federal Reserve’s eventual need to exit from the extraordinary level of liquidity it has provided to financial market in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
At least one person has died and more than 100 were injured after an anti-government protest in Amman, Jordan turned violent.
The Japanese government said it will unveil a plan by April on how it will cope with an expected energy shortage this summer as a result of the destruction of the nuclear plants in Fukushima following the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe.
Bret Baier, the host of Special Report on the Fox News cable channel in the U.S., said on Thursday that his program has strong journalists and defended his network from charges of bias, saying viewers can easily distinguish between news and opinion.
According to media reports, at least 20 people were killed in the southern town of Deraa by government troops as part of the state’s brutal crackdown on protesters.
A Chinese activist who published pro-democracy articles online has been handed a 10-year jail term, reports said, as edgy leadership went about killing dissent in the wake of the 'Jasmine Revolution.'
here is the latest update from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the ongoing nuclear power crisis in Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.
Graffiti art and placards reveal a divided world over the Libyan crisis, with some protestors backing Gaddafi, some opposing Gaddafi and some others opposing the U.S.-led action in particular.
The Japanese government is urging residents who live between 20 and 30 kilometers from crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to voluntarily evacuate the region, citing the difficulties of daily life there and the possibility of more radiation leaks.
At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour.
Australian defense minister Stephen Smith has apologized to his Afghan counterpart after footage of racial abuse involving Australian troops in Afghanistan were aired by television channels.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan gave no indication as to when he thought the nuclear crisis might be brought under control.
Pakistani immigrants in Bahrain are facing increased violence from locals who believe the kingdom uses them as security forces and police to help quell anti-government demonstrations.
In the biggest demonstration against the President yet, many thousands of Yemenis have gathered in capitol city of Sanaa demanding the immediate resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The triple disaster in Japan and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa likely would have only a limited impact on the global economy - provided the twin shocks of higher oil prices and the supply chain disruptions from Japan do not get much worse, market research firm IHS said.
From lecturing handpicked group of young western women on Islam to his fear of flying over waters, and from virgin bodyguards to maniacal imperial delusions, Muammar Gaddafi’s traits are as strange and funny, or even more so, as his weird dress sense. The following are some of his idiosyncrasies, peculiar hatreds, strange loves and manifestations of borderline psychosis:
The swelling ranks of protesters in the Syrian city of Deraa demanded the end of the cancerous regime of Bashar al-Assad and warned that the country was a bomb ready to explode.
A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake killed at least 26 people in Tali village in north-east Myanmar on Thursday night, while one woman was reported to have died in Thailand, reports say.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said on Thursday that he is considering a run to be the Republican party's presidential candidate in 2012, but it depends on whether his father Rep. Ron Paul of Texas runs.
Sarah Palin said on Thursday that she would no longer whine about the liberal press.
The United States is staging high-profile submarine exercises in the Arctic Ocean this month as evidence mounts that global warming will lead to more mining, oil production, shipping and fishing in the world's last frontier.
The following is text of a proclamation on the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire issued by President Barack Obama on March 24, 2011
U.S. Military officials are working on details on the transfer of command and control power for enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya.
NATO, with all its 28 member nations in agreement, agreed on Thursday that it will take over command and control of operations to enforce a no fly zone over Libya and all necessary measures to protect civilians, with the United States handing over the heavy lifting to its partners.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke by phone on Thursday morning, discussing developments in the Middle East at length, with a particular focus on Libya, the White House said.
As the western powers and some of their allies in the Middle East impose a no-fly zone over Libya in an effort to protect civilians from Moammar Gaddafi’s armies, many questions have been raised about the campaign and its long-term implications.
IBTimes Daily Edition: Thursday March 24, 2011
In what appears to be a dramatic change of heart, Turkey has agreed to allow NATO to takeover command of the Western alliance’s military campaign in Libya.
Islam, like Christianity, does not refer to any ethnic group or nationality. And, like Christians, Muslims come in all shapes, sizes and colors.
