كانون الأول 17, 2015 PARIS — The authorities in Belgium said on Wednesday that one of the Paris attackers may have been holed up in a house in Brussels two nights after 130 people were killed and hundreds more injured — but that he could have escaped because of a law ... Read More »
كانون الأول 17, 2015 The United States has delivered a fresh supply of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters ahead of an expected stiff battle with Islamic State as they push toward the Syrian town of al-Shadadi, a key logistics hub for the group, U.S. officials tell Reuters. The munitions were shipped ... Read More »
كانون الأول 15, 2015 German chancellor Angela Merkel challenged internal party critics of her liberal refugee policy on Monday, warning that cowards and pessimists had no place in her Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In a barnstorming party conference speech, which received a 10-minute standing ovation, the CDU leader conceded the refugee ... Read More »
كانون الأول 15, 2015 Barack Obama sought to reassert himself as commander-in-chief on Monday, standing with military top brass at the Pentagon and warning leaders of Islamic State: “You are next.” The blunt tone, with its echoes of President George W Bush’s reference to “Wanted, dead or alive” posters in the ... Read More »
تشرين الثاني 17, 2015 TOKYO- Asian stocks rose across the board on Tuesday following a surge on Wall Street overnight as investors clawed back losses that came on the back of last week’s Paris attacks. Meanwhile, expectations for a December rate hike by the Federal Reserve also kept the dollar on ... Read More »
تشرين الثاني 12, 2015 The European Union will announce a €1.8 billion emergency fund for Africa on Thursday in a bid to halt the flow of refugees entering the EU illegally, although leaders will stop short of establishing processing centres in Africa to register people before they leave the EU. Ireland ... Read More »
تشرين الثاني 04, 2015 The crisis at Volkswagen has deepened after the carmaker found “irregularities” in the carbon dioxide levels emitted by 800,000 of its cars. An internal investigation into the diesel emissions scandal has discovered that CO2 and fuel consumption were also “set too low during the CO2 certification process”, ... Read More »
تشرين الأول 27, 2015 The European Commission announced €5.9 million in emergency funding for Greece yesterday, a day after a mini-summit in Brussels agreed on a 17-point plan to deal with the refugee crisis unfolding in the Balkans. The new financing for Greece will be taken from the EU’s Asylum, Migration ... Read More »
تشرين الأول 19, 2015 Figures issued by the International Monetary Fund show that there were 294.2 borrowers per 1,000 adults at commercial banks in Lebanon at the end of 2014, constituting an increase of 4.8 percent from 280.7 in 2013 and compared to 179.1 in 2005. The borrowers’ penetration rate ranks ... Read More »
تشرين الأول 07, 2015 The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes and would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in U.S. taxes if they repatriated the funds, according to a study released on Tuesday. The study, by two left-leaning non-profit ... Read More »
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