Senior US official urges South Korea to cut crude oil imports from Iran The Washington Post | SEOUL, South Korea — A senior U.S. official is urging South Korea to reduce its crude oil imports from Iran to put pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program. | U.S. State Department official Robert Einhorn on Tuesday also urged Seoul to “unwind” its financial dealings with Tehr...
Bomb blast kills 26 in tribal Pakistan The Australian | A remote-controlled bomb blast killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 60 others in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan in the deadliest such attack in months, officials said. | The explosion took place in a market in Jamrud, one of the towns of the troubled Khyber tribal region, which a...
US says Pakistan 'too small an economy' to have free trade accord with Newstrack India | Islamabad, Jan 27 (ANI): The United States has said that a free trade accord is too big for Pakistan as there is no match between the economies of the two countries, a top official of the commerce ministry in Islamabad has said. | Commerce S...
Is Pakistan's economy facing potential collapse? BBC News Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has told business leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos that his government is stable and Pakistan is open for business. | Mr Gilani tried to convince corporate bosses that despite all the ...
Pak PM Says, He Wants To Work With India The Siasat Daily | Davos, January 27: Pointing out that Pakistan has “excellent” relationship with India, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said cooperation between the two to tackle climate change was “doable”. | He said Islamabad wants to work with Ne...
World Economic Forum Davos 2012: Things would soon fall in place in Pakistan, says Khar The Times Of India Describing Pakistani Parliament as the "new kid on the block", Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar today said a "little bit of elbowing" was taking place in Pakistan but things would "very soon fall in place". | "It is not such that as it may appear t...
Iraq oil law deal festers as crisis drags on Hartford Courant | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The political crisis engulfing Iraq's power-sharing government threatens to further delay a landmark draft of its long-delayed oil law - five years after the first version was submitted to parliament. | Political tensions are hi...
Insurgent bombing in central Iraq kills 10 people STL Today | Insurgents bombed a house belonging to two policemen and their families in central Iraq early on Thursday, killing 10 people inside in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal, officials said. | The house where the two policemen bro...
Army lieutenant from Mayville killed in Afghanistan Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MAYVILLE - Family and friends of an Army lieutenant from Dodge County were mourning his loss on Thursday morning after he was killed in Afghanistan. | First Lieutenant David Johnson, 24, was killed in action. | He was in command of an infan...
Soybean prices jump on worries over dry weather The News & Observer AP Photo This Jan. 6, 2012, image released by CBS News Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, shows Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Panetta and Dempsey discusses the impact of the new defense strategy on U.S. foreign policy. Email Print O...
