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Google’s Schmidt: Piracy blocks harm free speech

Latest Personal Loan Offers: Eric Schmidt, executive chairman at Google Inc., has said proposed anti-piracy blocks on websites such as The Pirate Bay would be a disaster for free speech in Western countries. Speaking at Google’s “Big Tent” conference in London, he said the Internet giant would be prepared to fight against any laws that [...]

Djibouti sends troops to turbulent Somalia

Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent Djibouti, Djibouti (AHN) – Djibouti on Saturday announced that it will send two battalions of troops to the war-torn Somalia to join the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMSIOM). Mohamoud Ali Yusuf, Djibouti’s minister of foreign affairs, said that his government was hecticly training and preparing those [...]

Jordan Hunkers Down as Egyptian Gas Supplies Are Disrupted

The Media Line Staff Amman, Jordan (TML) – Jordanians are being asked to shut off air conditioners and turn off lights when they don’t need them as the country’s main source of fuel for electric power – natural gas piped in from Egypt – has been shut off for the second time in three months. [...]

BOJ Shirakawa warns Japan economic outlook “very severe”

Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Saturday that the country’s economic outlook was very severe and that the central bank would take appropriate action to support the economy. View full post on All Stories

What next for Compaoré?

Ouagadoudou, Burkina Faso (IRIN) – President Blaise Compaoré is increasingly cornered, and must adopt a series of urgent reforms to avoid further waves of unrest in the country, say West African analysts. In the latest uprising, police fired their guns in the air in the capital, Ouagadougou, on 27 and 28 April, and in the [...]

Record hydropower generation by Himachal plant

The country’s biggest hydropower plant in Himachal Pradesh has marked a record in power generation in the last fiscal, an official statement said here Saturday. View full post on All Stories

Israeli central bank determined to gain control of Israel’s growth engine

The Media Line Staff Jerusalem, Israel (TML) – The Israeli growth engine has powered the economy through wars, a global financial crisis and turmoil in the Middle East, but Stanley Fischer, the country’s central banker, is now determined to get a grip on the controls. Fischer took economists and the financial markets by surprise late [...]

Struggling to cope with rising prices

IRIN Staff – IRIN IRIN Staff Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (IRIN) – Vietnam’s inflation rate is among Southeast Asia’s highest and its population is struggling to keep up with sharp increases in food, fuel and electricity prices. On 1 March the government increased electricity prices by a record 15 percent to an average 1,242 [...]

Amid Internet boom, top banks expand services, add branches

McClatchy Newspapers Friday, February 11, 2011 FORT LAUDERDALE — With a surge in Internet banking, growth in automatic teller machines and a tight economy, you might think that new branches would be far from the focus of banks today. But many of the country’s big banks are opening more offices to try to sell existing [...]

Egypt’s Mubarak meets ministers, talks economy

CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reportedly met with his ministers on Saturday to discuss the current economic situation facing the country. It comes a day after reports suggest the country is losing hundreds of millions of dollars daily as a result of the ongoing demonstrations to oust the president and his government. He met with [...]

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