Gaza militants fire rocket into Israel Thai worker killed in Israeli farm close to the Gaza Strip in the first lethal attack from the coastal territory since the end of the war last year
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:27:33 GMT Russian graft claims hint at power struggle Police corruption is well known to most Russians, but the scale of the problem revealed in a recent article signals that a behind-the-scenes political struggle is under way
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:55:13 GMT Rating agency gives India vote of confidence India received a vote of confidence in its economy when Standard & Poor’s removed a negative outlook on the country’s sovereign credit rating, citing the prospect that the budget deficit will begin to fall
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:51:30 GMT US health reforms ‘will cut deficit’ The prospects for President Barack Obama’s
healthcare reform legislation brightened considerably, when the independent Congressional Budget Office reported that the final bill would cut the US deficit by more than $1,300bn over the next 20 years.
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:06:37 GMT Clinton arrives in Moscow for arms treaty talks The UN urges Russia and the US to agree a new arms control pact as soon as possible as Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, arrived in Moscow for talks on nuclear weapons and Iran
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:44:55 GMT Seoul cuts North Korean lifeline South Korea is phasing out sand imports from North Korea in a big blow to the impoverished regime which is already suffering a loss of revenue due to confiscated arms shipments and bungled currency policy
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:36:11 GMT Germany warms to IMF aid for Greece Berlin has not excluded an International Monetary Fund programme being drawn up to help Greece weather its debt crisis, in spite of strong political opposition to any such move, according to high-level sources in Berlin
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:02:20 GMT Mexican finance minister plans tax reform Mexico’s new finance minister is planning to present congress with what would be a third tax reform in as many years as the country struggles to overcome historically low levels of government income
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:34:58 GMT US consumer prices flat in February The declining cost of fuel kept inflation at bay, easing fears that stimulus measures might raise living costs
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:39:29 GMT China’s exports powerhouse lifts wages Guangdong, the province that produces about a third of China’s exports, is to raise its minimum wage more than 20 per cent, fuelling inflation fears and dealing a blow to manufacturers emerging from the credit crisis