Italy speaker refuses to resign, deepens crisis The Star | ROME (Reuters) - The influential speaker of Italy's lower house refused to step down on Friday after being censured by his own party, and said his supporters could vote against the government of former ally Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) talks with M...
Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25 The Star | MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) - Forest fires sweeping across European Russia on Friday killed at least 25 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago. Men walk in front of a burning building outside the town of Vyksa, some 150 km (93 miles) s...
Italy speaker refuses to resign, deepens crisis The Star | ROME (Reuters) - The influential speaker of Italy's lower house refused to step down on Friday after being censured by his own party, and said his supporters could vote against the government of former ally Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Italy's...
Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25 The Star | MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) - Forest fires sweeping across European Russia on Friday killed at least 25 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago. Men walk in front of a burning building o...
Berlusconi Splits With a Coalition Ally The New York Times | ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi split with one of his major allies, Gianfranco Fini, on Thursday night, weakening Italy’s governing coalition and raising the possibility of early elections. | Mr. Berlusconi said at a news confer...
China finds a friend in Germany Asia Times | Jul 31, 2010 China finds a friend in Germany | By Jian Junbo | SHANGHAI - China and Germany are moving toward a closer and friendlier partnership, a process that seemed highly unlikely just three years ago and which could p...
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Unholy trinity sets up bank failures Asia Times | Jul 31, 2010 Unholy trinity sets up bank failures | By Chan Akya | Three discrete events over the past couple of weeks have confirmed the worst suspicion...
Serbia's Tadic signs law allowing politicians to keep two jobs m&c | Belgrade - President Boris Tadic on Friday brushed aside criticisms from the Serbian anti-corruption agency and signed a controversial law into effect paving the way to lawmakers...
Italy in political turmoil as Berlusconi party implodes The Star | ROME (Reuters) - Italy was in political turmoil on Friday after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dramatically split with his one-time most powerful centre-right ally, putting the...
Italy speaker refuses to resign, deepens crisis Deccan Herald ROME, AFP: | The influential speaker of Italy’s lower house refused to step down on Friday after being censured by his own party, and said his supporters could vote against the government of his former ally Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | &ldquo...
Poland to cut Urals shipments from Transneft in Aug The Guardian MOSCOW, July 30 (Reuters) - Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft said on Friday that Poland would cut shipments of Urals crude via the Druzhba pipeline in the first ten days of August. Poland has been trying for a long time to diversify the crude oil ...
Gay Games in Cologne set to welcome 10,000 competitors The Guardian | German city gets ready to host gay and lesbian athletes from more than 70 countries for eighth quadrennial event A runner wearing rainbow socks at the Gay Games VII in Chicago in 2006. Photograph: Nick Laham/Getty Images | Around 10,000 gay and les...
Berlusconi Splits With a Coalition Ally The New York Times | ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi split with one of his major allies, Gianfranco Fini, on Thursday night, weakening Italy’s governing coalition and raising the possibility of early elections. | Mr. Berlusconi said at a news conference Thursday that Mr. Fini’s positions were “absolutely incompatible with the founding ...
Unholy trinity sets up bank failures Asia Times | Jul 31, 2010 Unholy trinity sets up bank failures | By Chan Akya | Three discrete events over the past couple of weeks have confirmed the worst suspicions of non-Keynesians that governments remain not just beholden to banks around the world but positively scared of them. | Exhibit A is the cartoonish European bank "stress...
