
TTIP: a proposed trade treaty in troubled waters
Washington (AFP) May 3, 2016 - Will the ambitious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the world's largest trade pact, ever see the light of day?
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Washington (AFP) May 3, 2016 - Will the ambitious Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the world's largest trade pact, ever see the light of day?
May 3, 2016

Kuwait City (AFP) May 3, 2016 - The UN envoy has met delegates of Yemen's warring parties separately in a bid to restart peace negotiations after a protest walkout by the government, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
May 3, 2016

Baghdad (AFP) May 3, 2016 - An ongoing joint Iraqi operation against the Islamic State group south of the city of Mosul could displace 30,000 civilians in the coming weeks, the UN refugee agency warned Tuesday.
May 3, 2016

Aleppo, Syria (AFP) May 2, 2016 - Fresh air strikes hit Syria's Aleppo city early Monday, an AFP correspondent said, after US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva in a bid to halt the mounting carnage.
May 2, 2016

Washington (AFP) May 2, 2016 - The White House on Monday said it is still weighing a possible first presidential visit to Hiroshima, one of two Japanese cities bombed by a US nuclear weapon.
May 2, 2016

Brussels (AFP) May 2, 2016 - A massive US-EU trade deal would harm the environment and consumer safety, Greenpeace said Monday citing secret documents it leaked, as Brussels dismissed the release as a storm in a teacup.
May 2, 2016

Washington (AFP) May 2, 2016 - Admiral John Richardson, the US Navy's top officer, said Monday he hopes for a normalization of relations with Moscow in the Baltic Sea, where Russian jets have buzzed US planes and ships.
May 2, 2016

Geneva (AFP) May 2, 2016 - Fresh air strikes pummelled the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday as US Secretary of State John Kerry made a desperate bid to salvage a two-month ceasefire in the war-torn country.
May 2, 2016

Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2016 - The April issue of Springer's Journal of Maritime Archaeology (JMA) focuses on a single shipwreck as the lens through which maritime archaeology assesses the advent of the Atomic Age and the Cold Wa
May 2, 2016

London (AFP) May 2, 2016 - Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright on Monday identified himself as the creator of Bitcoin following years of speculation about who invented the pioneering digital currency.
May 2, 2016

Baghdad (AFP) May 2, 2016 - A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed at least 14 people in southern Baghdad on Monday, security and medical sources said.
May 2, 2016

London (UPI) May 2, 2016 - Britain's Ministry of Defense is procuring 20 advanced Predator B remotely piloted aircraft from the United States for about $606.2 million.
May 2, 2016

Baghdad (AFP) May 2, 2016 - The Iraqi authorities are holding often innocent terror suspects in dire conditions across the country and have no ability to process cases, Amnesty International said on Monday.
May 2, 2016

Canberra (AFP) May 2, 2016 - A mega deal to build Australian submarines was so important, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday, that he pledged to personally supervise the project as Paris and Canberra bolster defence ties.
May 2, 2016

Dusseldorf, Germany (UPI) May 2, 2016 - The German Army has ordered laser duel simulators from Rheinmetall AG for the Bundeswehr's Army Combat Training Center, Rheinmetall announced.
May 2, 2016

Berlin (AFP) May 2, 2016 - Greenpeace charged Monday that a massive US-EU trade deal would place corporate interests above the environment and consumer safety, as it released classified documents from the negotiations.
May 2, 2016