By Wayne Arnold International Herald Tribune November 21, 2007 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Rising oil wealth is lifting Islamic banking – banking that adheres to the laws of the Koran and its prohibition against charging interest – into the financial mainstream. Big banks like Citigroup, HSBC and Deutsche Bank, as well as financial capitals like London, […]
By Guy Faulconbridge Reuters November 20, 2007 MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned that Moscow would not remain indifferent to NATO’s “muscle-flexing” and said Russia’s nuclear forces would be ready for an adequate response to any aggressor. “We see that military resources of certain states and members of the NATO alliance are being […]
By James Kanter International Herald Tribune November 20, 2007 The volume of greenhouse gases emitted by industrialized nations rose to near-record levels in 2005, the United Nations said Tuesday, two weeks before political leaders meet in Bali, Indonesia, to agree on a road map for negotiations on a new global treaty to fight climate change. […]
By Carter Dougherty International Herald Tribune November 16, 2007 FRANKFURT: At a Group of 7 meeting this autumn in Washington, the United States persuaded Europe to join its strategy of leaning on China to revalue the yuan upward, a step that would help ease the pressure on the beleaguered dollar. Yet, turbulent currency markets are […]
Deutsche Welle November 12, 2007 In the wake of talks in Berlin, the leaders of France and Germany said they agreed on the need for diplomacy in dealing with Tehran, and pledged to do their utmost to keep nuclear weapons out of Iranian hands… more