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In his “State of the Economy” speech today, delivered from the financial center of the world, President Bush aimed at bringing his economic message out of the shadows of the Iraq war. On his second day in a row he focused on the economy, the government reported faster-than-expected […]
The Federal Reserve Wednesday left interest rates unchanged where they have been since mid-2006 even as the economy showed surprising signs of bouncing back from a housing-induced slowdown.
After a two-day meeting to study the economy’s prospects for the year, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues left […]
Iraqi officials said Monday that 300 militants were killed in a fierce battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival. Elsewhere, bombings and mortar attacks targeting Shiites killed at least 15 people.
The fighting that began Sunday near the Shiite holy city […]
Iran plans to expand its economic and military ties with Iraq, including offering training to Iraqi forces and opening an Iranian bank branch in Baghdad, The New York Times has reported.
Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, told the Times in an interview conducted Sunday that his country was prepared to offer […]
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has invited rival Palestinian leaders to a meeting in Mecca aimed at ending a recent wave of factional fighting. In an open letter, the king described the clashes as a “disgrace” and urged leaders to make “dialogue prevail over the language of arms”.
Three days of clashes […]
Dutch authorities say an Iraqi-born Dutch citizen, suspected of plotting attacks on American forces in Iraq, has been extradited to the United States. Wesam al-Delaema was put on a plane and flown to an undisclosed location in the US after losing his final appeal against extradition in December.
He is set to become the first […]
The next milestone in the relentless pursuit of smaller, higher performance microchips has been unveiled. Chip-maker Intel has announced that it will start manufacturing processors using transistors just 45 nanometres (billionths of a metre) wide.
Shrinking the basic building blocks of microchips will make them faster and more efficient.
Computer giant IBM has also signalled […]
The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran’s influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the […]
President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday “I’m the decision-maker” about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his plan.
“I’ve picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed,” Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with […]
It was 1964, during a search of the eastern Louisiana swamps for three civil rights workers, when authorities turned up the weighted, badly decomposed remains of two black hitchhikers.
Two white suspects were arrested, but the FBI consumed by the civil rights workers’ case _ turned the case over to local authorities. […]