Posts Tagged ‘world’

NJ: N.J. to repay federal government $350M spent on killed Hudson River tunnel project

Gov. Chris Christie cut New Jersey off from $5 billion in New York-based salaries and diminished its future role in the world’s second-largest regional economy when he stopped construction of a Hudson River rail tunnel he said taxpayers couldn’t afford. View full post on All Stories

Brazil Elects First Woman President

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Sao Paulo, Brazil (AHN) – Dilma Rousseff has been elected Brazil’s first woman president during a runoff. The former guerilla fighter was the Worker’s Party candidate and defeated opponent Jose Serra of the Brazilian Democratic Party. Brazil’s new leader has never held an elected office. Rousseff has acknowledged [...]

Australia’s questions over iPhone security: justified?

John Lawler, the CEO of the Australian Crime Commission, has spoken about the serious threat of online crime in today’s highly tech-savvy world, something that extends all the way to the iPhone. At the International Serious and Organised Crime 2010 event, the Australian Crime Commission’s (ACC) CEO, John Lawler, gave an excellent address on the [...]

Advice from 1999

Back in 1999, the dot-com boom seemed as inevitable and endless as the housing boom a few years later – the new economy would continue to create new wealth because everything was digital now and the world was different…. View full post on All Stories

World Bank, IMF Discuss Development Funds At Annual Meeting

The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) fund requires new resources from Western governments to adequately fight global poverty, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday during the annual meetings of the bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., the Guardian reports. The IDA “provides soft loans and grants to the 79 poorest [...]

Global rebalancing ‘not progressing’ enough: Geithner

The United States believes the rebalancing of the global economy “is not progressing as well as needed,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told world economic leaders Friday. View full post on All Stories

Khamenei Fatwa Plays To Sunni Sensitivities

The Media Line Staff Tehran, Iran David E. Miller/The Media – A new religious opinion issued by Iran’s foremost Shiite cleric has pleased Sunni leaders throughout the Arab world. Ayatollah ‘Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a new fatwa on Oct. 2 forbidding the denigration of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife, ‘Aisha, or any other [...]

10/10/10 kicks off call for change

On Oct. 24, 2009, International Day of Climate Action, citizens around the world joined 350.org in organizing more than 5,200 events in more than 180 countries in support of the 350 parts per million target. CNN called it the “most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.” The latest science says that 350 [...]

Somali Government: Islamic World Failing To Help Somalia

Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent New York, United States (AHN) – The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia on Thursday accused Islamic countries of failing to help reduce the worsening security situation in the war-devastated nation. Abdu-Rahman Hajji Adam Ibbi, the former Somali fishing minister now in New York, said if the world didn’t [...]

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