Secretary of DefenseLeon Panetta has pointed out that in the 21st century, "The reality is that there are environmental threats [climate change, sea level rise, dangerous weather conditions, etc.] which constitute threats to our national security." Fifteen senior military leaders fear climate...
Spanish prime ministerMariano Rajoy said government reforms had avoided yesterday's €100bn eurozone loan to save its ailing banks from being a bailout for the country. Mariano Rajoy said: 'If we had not done what we have done in the past five months, the proposal yesterday would have been a...
TweetKabul, June 10 (IANS) At least 45 Taliban militants have been killed in operations carried out by Afghan and NATO-led troops, the interior ministry said Sunday. The forces launched 10 "clean-up" operations in Kabul, Laghman, Parwan, Helmand, Uruzgan and Farah provinces, in which 33 militants...
by Fu Jing BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhuanet) -- China's outbound foreign direct investment could hit the $2-trillion mark by 2020, with the private sector playing an important role, according to a report by US-based research firm Rhodium Group. The report said if Europe continues to attract the same...
London: Eighty-eight years after Vladimir Lenin's death, Russia may bury the embalmed corpse of the founder of the Soviet Union. The revolutionary's body remains on public display in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, more than two decades after the break-up of the former USSR....
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez said Saturday that he has undergone tests following his cancer treatment and everything came out well. Chavez said the exams included imaging tests, which are used to check for the reappearance of tumors. "Everything came out absolutely...
