Technology, including smartphones controlled by US companies Apple and Google, allow instant global connections that thwart efforts in nations like France to protect film, music and other industries. Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft also develop tech products indispensable for businesses worldwide....
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Almost 200 countries reached an historic agreement in December to reduce carbon emissions. The Obama administration imposed limits on power plants’ carbon emissions, but the US Supreme Court “took the unusual step to delay implementation of the Clean Power Plan until legal challenges to the...
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Foreign investors are not rushing to invest in India. Monthly foreign direct investment equity inflows to India have fallen by half in recent months, from $4.4 billion to $2 billion. Modi has promised economic structural reforms but a culture war over religious differences could also contribute to...
Despite the Modi government's international investment road-shows and warm invitations to ‘Make in India’, foreign investors continue to shy away. According to the latest figures from the ministry of commerce, monthly FDI equity inflow has fallen...
A newly released report on UN reform suggests that the path be cleared for the world organization to intervene in sovereign nations and send peacekeepers to places like Darfur or Rwanda. But before rushing the blue berets to the next political crisis, the international community would do well to...
Keeping the peace? UN troops manage botched nation-building efforts in Kosovo
ATHENS: The television images are haunting: children with bloated bellies and vacant eyes, flies swarming around their mouths. The statistics are...
Electoral politics continue to affect US policy toward Cuba. The focus of these policy debates are US restrictions on travel to the island nation. Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, citing election-year politics as a major obstacle, withdrew his initiative to ease such restrictions. "...
WASHINGTON - Opponents of U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba suffered a defeat Wednesday when an amendment that would have denied funding for enforcement was withdrawn from a House of Representatives bill, the first...
Having inducted ten new members into in May, the European Union (EU) will soon consider Turkey’s case. The EU first granted the candidacy in December 1999, and Turkey immediately set out to meet the accession criteria. In 2002, however, the EU responded to Turkey’s concerted reforms by delaying a...
For those harboring the illusion that the European Union can play a decisive role in the future of the Middle East, whether in Palestine or in Iraq, let them consider the case of Turkey. With the decision on whether...
The US effort to stabilize Iraq may not be going as planned, reports this article in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper. Several arguments have erupted of late that threaten to divide Iraq's Interim Governing Council (IGC) and the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority. Disagreements...
Monday's scheduled three-way meeting between the UN, Iraq's Interim Governing Council (IGC) and the occupying powers could accomplish more than just helping define a future UN role in Iraq.
It could also go...
The US has already offered contracts to American companies to rebuild Iraq even before the war has been won. And despite calls for more international involvement, it seems that the US ultimately intends to employ only American companies – the House of Representatives has already voted not to let...
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