Cyprus has struck a last-minute agreement with international lenders to save its banks from insolvency and keep it in the eurozone. The deal, though, comes at a significant cost for some. The deal, which came in the early hours of Monday after more than 10 hours of negotiations in Brussels, will...
BRUSSELS: The eurozone struck a deadline-day deal with Cyprus Monday to resurrect a bailout for its government, but only after a radical downsizing of the island's financial sector. Cyprus PresidentNicos Anastasiades battled for 12 hours with his euorzone partners and the IMF. In the end however,...
AYE AYE WINAssociated Press= YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in Myanmar's predominantly Buddhist heartland over the weekend, destroying mosques and burning dozens of homes despite government efforts to stop the nation's latest outbreak of sectarian violence...
Hong Kong’s top court rejected the final appeal of a foreign maid who said the city’s denial of her application for residence rights is unconstitutional. Foreign domestic helpers are “told from the outset that admission is not for the purposes of...
* Deal to shut Laiki bank, transfer insured deposits * Clinched hours before Monday deadline to seal EU bailout * Without deal banks faced collapse, possible euro zone exit By Jan Strupczewski and Annika Breidthardt BRUSSELS, March 25 (Reuters) - Cyprus clinched a last-ditch deal with international...
VIENTIANE, Laos — On the 100th day since the disappearance of a prominent American-educated Laotian agriculture specialist, Secretary of StateJohn Kerry on Monday urged the government here to make public the results of an investigation into what had happened to him, and to return him to his...
