By Vasilije Gallak on Oct 9, 2008 in Asia, Featured | 0 Comments
Jakarta - Trading on the Indonesia Stock Exchange was suspended for a second day Thursday although it might resume Friday if conditions allow, a cabinet minister said.
By Vasilije Gallak on Oct 9, 2008 in Featured, Italy | 0 Comments
Rome - The Italian government late Wednesday forged a stabilization package as a “precautionary” measure to secure banks and bank deposits.
By Vasilije Gallak on Oct 2, 2008 in European Union, Featured, Spain | 0 Comments
Madrid - The Spanish parliament Thursday approved a controversial plan to encourage immigrants to return home amid rising unemployment.
By Vasilije Gallak on Oct 2, 2008 in Featured, United States | 0 Comments
Washington - The US Senate approved a 700-billion-dollar financial rescue package Wednesday night that members said was essential to keep the world’s largest economy from near-total collapse.
By Vasilije Gallak on Oct 1, 2008 in European Union, Featured, Russia | 0 Comments
Tbilisi/Moscow - EU observers started their mission Wednesday to monitor the Russo-Georgian ceasefire agreement one and half months after conflict flared between the two countries over Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
By Vasilije Gallak on Sep 20, 2008 in Featured | 0 Comments
Copenhagen - The Danish foreign ministry confirmed that a Danish diplomat was among the injured in the apparent suicide bomb attack on the five-star Marriot hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday.
By Vasilije Gallak on Sep 20, 2008 in Featured | 0 Comments
Islamabad - At least 50 people were killed and around 200 injured Saturday in an apparent suicide bomb attack on the five-star Marriot hotel in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, witnesses and officials said.
By Vasilije Gallak on Sep 19, 2008 in Featured, Russia | 0 Comments
Moscow - Russia’s military successfully launched its Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea to hit a target in the Pacific thousands of miles away, the Russian Defence Ministry said Thursday.
By Vasilije Gallak on Sep 18, 2008 in Featured, General News | 0 Comments
Sydney - Australian shares gave up 3.3 per cent at the opening bell Thursday in response to the plunge on Wall Street.
By Vasilije Gallak on Sep 18, 2008 in Featured, Israel | 0 Comments
Tel Aviv - Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz will demand a recount of Wednesday’s primary vote in Israel’s ruling Kadima party, supporters said early Thursday after he narrowed his gap behind front-runner Tzipi Livni.