Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked the Turkish parliament today to approve early national elections for June 24 and his party began to press for several constitutional changes that would bring it advantages in the coming political battle.
Cablevision Systems announced an agreement today to sell itself to its founding family, the Dolans, for more than $10.5 billion in cash.
President Bush vetoed a $124 billion war spending bill on Tuesday, setting up a second round in his long battle with Congressional Democrats who are determined to use the financing measure to force the White House to shift course in Iraq.
Octavio Frias de Oliveira, who published Brazil´s biggest newspaper and Web site and helped modernise the country´s media, has died of kidney failure, his company said yesterday. He was 94.
Influential U.S. senators vowed on Thursday to restore to foreign terrorism suspects the right to challenge their imprisonment, saying Congress made an historic blunder by stripping them of that right last year.
Japan´s top court on Friday rejected two compensation claims by Chinese who suffered at Japanese hands during World War Two, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tried to soothe anger in Washington over his comments on wartime sex slavery.
A trip on Air Force One and a talk between President Bush and Representative Charles B. Rangel as they traveled to Mr. Rangel’s home district in Harlem this week has suddenly lifted prospects for bipartisan agreement on trade legislation in Congress, officials on both sides said Thursday.
French chemical company Rhodia announced today that it will invest US$ 41 million in their Paulínia factory, in São Paulo, Brazil, which is Rhodia´s largest industrial complex in the country. The money will be used to increase the company´s production capacity by the end of 2008.
Carmaker Peugeot Citroen is hoping to axe 4,800 jobs in France this year as part of a cost-cutting drive.
The Supreme Court put defenders of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law on the defensive on Wednesday in a spirited argument that suggested the court could soon open a significant loophole in the measure
The Supreme Court put defenders of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law on the defensive on Wednesday in a spirited argument that suggested the court could soon open a significant loophole in the measure
The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to impose tighter restrictions on the hundreds of lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and the request has become a central issue in a new legal battle over the administration’s detention policies.
Brazil said Wednesday it could strip the patent on an anti-AIDS drug produced by German pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA if the company did not offer Latin America´s largest country a deeper discount.
European lawmakers backed new rules for stem cell and other advanced medical therapies on Wednesday, despite opposition from a key member of the European Parliament.
The Speech or Debate Clause in the Constitution protects a Congress member´s "legislative acts" from judicial inquiry, but Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wondered yesterday just how encompassing that term might be.
Last April, the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq) established a partnership with the China Machine Tools Builder´s Association (CMTB), its Chinese counterpart in the industry, based in Beijing, China.
Royal Bank of Scotland, the British bank, and two other European lenders today offered 72.2 billion euros, or $98.5 billion, for ABN Amro, the largest Dutch bank, triggering one of the biggest takeover battles in the banking industry.
New York State would more closely scrutinize its use of solitary confinement for mentally ill prison inmates under the proposed terms of a legal agreement scheduled for review by a federal judge on Friday.
An Indonesian court acquitted Newmont Mining Corporation and one of its senior executives of charges of polluting a bay here with toxic waste from a now defunct gold mine, in a case that became a litmus test of foreign investor confidence in Indonesia.
The Mexico City legislature approved a bill Tuesday to make abortion legal during the first three months of pregnancy, a watershed vote that set the stage for court battles and social clashes between religious conservatives and liberals.
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