Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed on Sunday that his government would not recognize the results of the presidential election in Honduras, calling the voting a farce.
“We will not recognize any result of the election. For us, the only Honduras’ president is still Manuel Zelaya,” Chavez reiterated his position during the weekly broadcast “Hello, Mr President.”
Chavez [...]
A day after stock markets plummeted in the wake of the debt crisis in Dubai, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Saturday that there was no need to panic over the downturn in the Gulf city.
The impact of Dubai crisis over Indian economy is limited but it has to be as sessed, Mukherjee told [...]
New South Wales (NSW) Premier Nathan Rees revealed on Monday that Sydney will host the Forbes Global CEO Conference in September next year.
This is the second time Sydney has been chosen to host the event, which will be attended by about 450 chief executives from prominent companies in Asia, Europe, the United States and Australia.
“Securing [...]
New inflation data reveal the moderation in prices has come to an end, suggesting the Australian Reserve Bank (RBA) will raise its cash rate for an unprecedented third month in a row.
The TD Securities-Melbourne Institute monthly inflation gauge released on Monday showed prices rose by 0.3 percent in October, lifting the annual rate to 2.1 [...]
The arrival of about 12,000 families in the last few months in the territory of Masis and Rutshuru, in the province of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has aroused doubts about their origin and raised fear of infiltration of foreigners.
The authorities indicated that they may pose as Congolese [...]
Top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Il called for doing well on military training during an inspection tour to an army unit, the official KCNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Kim expressed great satisfaction about the unit’s successful soldiers training and stressed the importance of improving its combat capability every [...]
Britain is reported to be downgrading one of its two military bases in Cyprus, for security and economy reasons, according to state-run Cyprus Broadcasting Station (CYBC).
Usually well-informed CYBC said on Sunday that several hundred troops stationed at the Dekelia base near the southeast city of Larnaca were flown back to Britain and a smaller number [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday called on Western powers to impose real sanctions on Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program, local news service Ynet reported.
“The effort should lead to real pressure, real sanctions on the regime,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying at a journalism conference in Eilat, a southern Israeli city.
The Iranian regime was very [...]
Next year’s World Cup will leave a carbon footprint nearly nine times that of Germany in 2006, and that is before calculating the footprint for international flights to South Africa, the Cape Argus reported on Sunday.
The event will send 896,661 tons of global-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, with international travel contributing another 1,856,589 tons.
This [...]
Followers of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and police clashed on Sunday in San Pedro Sula, north of the country, during a protests against the general elections being held.
Local radio station Radio Globo reported on Sunday that it was a peaceful protest in the Cental Park of San Pedro Sula, of some 1,000 people against [...]
