BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone leaders agreed on Thursday to create a joint financial safety net with the IMF to help debt-ridden Greece and to try to restore confidence in their common currency after weeks of wrangling. Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou arrives at a meeting of the European Socialists (PES) ahead of a European [...]
The Obama administration is to send a senior envoy to North Korea for direct bilateral talks on the country’s nuclear programme, the US state department has confirmed. Stephen Bosworth will visit Pyongyang at a date yet to be announced but most likely by the end of the year, US officials said on Tuesday. North Korea [...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders agreed an offer to put on the table at global climate talks in Copenhagen in December after healing a rift over how to split the bill. A dust storm blankets Sydney’s iconic Opera House at sunrise September 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne/Files) Developing countries will need 100 billion euros ($148 [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan — Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai conceded Tuesday that he fell short of a first-round victory in the nation’s disputed presidential election, and agreed to hold a runoff election with his top challenger on Nov. 7. Flanked at a news conference in Kabul by Senator John Kerry, the head of the [...]