In certain sensitive situations the Japanese answer is a smile, as the chairman of Germany's main industry association BDI, Michael Rogowski, found out when he asked Toyota Chairman Hiroshi Okuda to name the...
Egypt’s army has ousted Mohamed Mursi. Concern intensified in mid-June when the president attended a rally that called for “holy war” in Syria and was said to have called for foreign intervention. The army responded by suggesting its duty was to guard Egypt’s borders. The powerful, largely secular...
(Reuters) - Army concern about the way President Mohamed Mursi was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said.
At the June...
In 2013, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union at that time organized a summit to address Africa’s need for information communication technology, or ICT, an endeavor they called “Transform Africa.” More than 1,200 delegates from...
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The growing realities of world geopolitics have given non-traditional languages an elevated profile in the US-waged war on terrorism. The recent revelation that over 123,000 hours of FBI-collected audiotapes of terrorist "chatter" had been left untranslated has further sparked a movement...
MONTEREY - If the United States is going to win the war with Islamic
extremism, it will need a lot more soldiers like Aimee Sullivan. Her weapon
of choice is not an automatic rifle or an armored...
Confronted with US evidence, North Korea has admitted to developing a nuclear weapons program. The country's admission shows a blatant disregard of a 1994 agreement in which it promised to halt nuclear weapons research, and the issue poses a serious set-back for the global effort to prevent...
The divided Korean peninsula appeared to be heading towards a fresh crisis on Thursday after the US said North Korea had for the first time admitted to developing weapons of mass destruction.
In a surprise...
US companies that move part of their operations abroad continue to report big financial gains. Defense contractors like United Technologies, for example, report a spike in foreign sales and increased stock prices. Increasing numbers of multinational companies based in the US – including United...
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Chinese workers could soon receive a pay raise. To combat rising prices for food, energy and other basic goods, the government mulls proposals to address income inequality. Guidelines for salary reform mostly target private companies, report a team of authors for the Economic Observer Online,...
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For a few short decades, Europe was viewed as a model for human rights and economic security. Many Europeans were eager for the continent to become an influential geopolitical actor, acting independently of the United States, notes Chris Miller, a Yale doctoral candidate and research associate at...
European discord: Putin views Russian exercise near Ukraine border while Russian invasion of Crimea has divided Europe (top); Greek demonstrators dressed as Nazis demonstrate against German call for austerity
NEW HAVEN: Europeans have control over...
