Barack Obama’s first envoy to North Korea flies to Pyongyang to try to coax the state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering any new incentives
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Japan’s ruling coalition government is set to agree on a Y7,200bn stimulus package after a tiny coalition partner backed down from its call for larger spending to bolster the economy
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President Barack Obama has been armed with new ammunition for the Copenhagen summit on climate change following a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency authorising a crackdown on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Parallels between Iraq and Afghanistan – let alone Vietnam – are highly misleading, according to David Petraeus, the general overseeing President Barack Obama’s troop escalation in Afghanista.
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A hat trick of electoral victories has made Evo Morales, Bolivia’s leftist president, one of Latin America’s most popular leaders, with a clear mandate to push ahead with plans to increase state control of the economy, grant greater autonomy to regions and improve the lot of the Andean nation’s indigenous majority.
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Greece’s financial difficulties escalated after it was warned of a possible credit rating downgrade and the ECB president said Athens would have to act ‘courageously’ to bring its budget under control
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US prosecutors charged a Chicago man with helping to plan the Mumbai terrorist attacks last year by reconnoitring the main sites in the strikes
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One banker said creditors were seeking to minimise the damage and continue to be paid interest throughout the process in order to avoid booking their exposure as non-performing loans
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Traian Basescu was declared the winner in Sunday’s presidential poll by a wafer-thin margin while his challenger’s supporters refused to accept the result
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Egyptian Nobel Laureate has become the target of ferocious attacks in the state press after his name was put forward as a potentially credible candidate for the next presidential poll in 2011
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