Wednesday, January 4, 2012

US POLITICS: Bachmann quits, Romney wins Iowa by a whisker

US POLITICS: Bachmann quits, Romney wins Iowa by a whisker

US POLITICS: Bachmann quits, Romney wins Iowa by a whisker

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:53 PM PST

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney won the party's first caucus in Iowa Wednesday, beating rival Rick Santorum by just eight votes. Hours after the poll, fellow Republican contender Michelle Bachmann announced that she was quitting the race.

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FRANCE: Socialist rival Hollande attacks Sarkozy on economy

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:10 PM PST

Socialist opposition leader François Hollande staged his strongest attack yet Tuesday on conservative rival President Nicolas Sarkozy, accusing him of economic and moral blunders during his five-year term in office.

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IRAN: EU agrees 'in principle' on Iranian crude embargo

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:15 PM PST

European governments have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian oil, EU officials have said, while French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said a final decision could be taken by the end of the month.

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INTERNET: Yahoo gets new CEO with ex-PayPal boss Thompson

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:21 AM PST

Troubled Internet giant Yahoo has named Scott Thompson, president of eBay's PayPal division, as its new chief executive. Yahoo has been without a permanent CEO since September.

UK - JUSTICE: Stephen Lawrence's killers sentenced to life in prison

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:00 AM PST

A British judge has sentenced two men to life in prison for stabbing a black teenager to death in London almost two decades ago - a crime that exposed racism within the police and set the victim's family on a long quest for justice.

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NIGERIA: Nigerian unions threaten strike in fuel price anger

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:22 AM PST

Nigerian trade unions have called for a national strike and mass demonstrations to shut down oil production and other sectors starting from Monday unless the government restores a fuel subsidy it scrapped this week.

FRANCE-TURKEY: French senate to vote on Armenian genocide law

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:15 AM PST

France's Senate will vote later in January on a controversial bill to outlaw denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey. The proposed law, which sparked fury in Turkey, was passed by the Lower National Assembly in December.

FRANCE: France's Société Generale to slash 1,580 jobs

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST

French bank Société Generale has announced it plans to shed 880 jobs nationally and 700 abroad, in cuts targeted at the group's Corporate and Investment banking division.

ARGENTINA: Argentina's Cristina Fernandez undergoes cancer surgery

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:15 AM PST

Argentina's popular president Cristina Fernandez was successfully operated on for thyroid cancer on Wednesday. Doctors predicted a complete cure without chemotherapy, since preoperative tests showed the cancer had not spread.

TALIBAN: Karzai welcomes Taliban office in Qatar

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:52 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has welcomed a possible deal that would allow Taliban insurgents to open an office in the Gulf nation of Qatar with the aim of holding talks with the United States.

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US POLITICS: Rick Perry to ‘reassess’ White House run

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:11 PM PST

Governor Rick Perry plans to return to Texas to consider "whether there is a path forward for myself in this race," after ending up a disastrous fifth in the Republican caucus in Iowa. Perry foundered after several poor TV debate performances.

EGYPT: Islamists pledge to work with rivals as Egyptians vote on final day

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:43 PM PST

Egyptians go to the polls for a second day Wednesday in the final round of elections expected to put the country's new parliament in Islamist control. The leading Muslim Brotherhood promised late Tuesday to work with all rival political parties.

THE INTERVIEW: Titra Parsi, President and Founder of the National Iranian American Council

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:49 AM PST

Melissa Bell speaks to Titra Parsi, President and Founder of the National Iranian American Council. He is an expert in Middle East policy, particularly US-Iranian relations. They discuss US President Barack Obama's diplomacy towards Iran and the renewed tension over the past couple of weeks between the two countries.

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