Archive for December 2012
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"I particularly appeal to our intelligentsia and Muslim students to come forward and rise to the occasion. You have performed wonders in the past. You are still capable of repeating the history. You are not
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A joint venture consisting of US company CB&I and Japan's Chiyoda Corporation has been picked to participate in a liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, CB&I said Monday. "CC JV, a joint venture comprising of
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Iraq and Jordan agreed on Monday to extend an oil pipeline to the Red Sea city of Aqaba for the export of Iraqi crude, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said after a fleeting visit to Amman.
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Some US lawmakers voiced concern on Sunday that the country would go over "the fiscal cliff" in nine days, triggering harsh spending cuts and tax hikes, and some Republicans charged that was President Barack Obama's
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Japan's new government led by incoming prime minister Shinzo Abe has suggested it may join a US-backed Pacific-wide free trade deal, a report said Monday. Tokyo has previously shown interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Government and opposition deputies brawled inside Macedonia's parliament and their supporters hurled stones and bottles at each other outside on Monday in an escalating dispute over the proposed 2013 state budget. Thousands of pro- and
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Spain's recession-battered economy will grow and create jobs in 2014, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy predicted in an interview published Monday. The Spanish leader told the conservative daily El Mundo that he hoped an improving economy
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Borusan Mannesmann, Turkey's leading steel pipe manufacturer, said it would invest $150 million in building a plant in the United States to tap the shale gas boom. "This will be an investment to benefit from
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Russia has completed its largest infrastructure project since the Soviet Union by expanding its eastern oil pipeline to the Pacific Ocean as it seeks to carve out a bigger share of the Asian market. It
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US firearm sales have sky-rocketed since the Newtown school massacre, as debate over gun control rages and enthusiasts fear certain assault weapons and high-capacity magazines could be banned. President Barack Obama basically has put gun
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