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Hagel Starts Mideast Tour in Israel
Chuck Hagel, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, started a weeklong five-country tour in the Middle East when he arrived in Israel Sunday morning. The trip for Hagel will focus on the civil war in Syria, the nuclear program in Iran and sales of weapons to allies UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Hagel will use this [...]
Middle East Important for U.S. Export Growth
As the U.S. looks to increase its exports and sustain continued growth, the Middle will be a key region. This came from Emaar Properties chairman Mohamed Alabbar who made the comments after accepting the Arab Bankers Association of America Achievement Award for 2012. The real estate tycoon was given the award at a New York [...]
U.S. Ambassador Attacked In China
An angry mob of people attacked the vehicle carrying the U.S. Ambassador to China during the largest protests against the claims by Japan over the islands located in the East China Sea. Close to 50 protesters from China surrounded a United States official state car carrying Gary Locke the U.S. Ambassador to the country. The [...]
NATO Protestors Gather in Chicago
Law enforcement authorities, protesters and the media all geared up for one of the largest protests of the year in Chicago on Sunday. NATO is holding a summit and thousands of protesters are expected to march to a lakeside convention center from downtown to protest the world leader’s summit meeting. Protestors were starting to gather [...]
Obama Denies Arming Rebels
The White House Administration denied shipping arms to the outgunned rebels in Syria. It is something they have expressed for months. The Obama administration said that by doing so, it would only escalate the already bloody conflict in the Middle East nation. However, a prominent newspaper on Wednesday reported that the U.S. has helped coordinate [...]
Putin willing to go far with U.S.
The president-elect of Russia, Vladimir Putin said he was ready to go as far as needed to develop better ties between his country and the United States. However, he is willing to do that as long as the relationship between the two is equal. In a meeting that was closed-door with Tom Donilon, a top [...]
Clinton Visit Overshadowed by Human Rights Activist
On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton the U.S. Secretary of State arrived in Beijing to have high level economic and strategic talks with the Chinese government. However, those talks were close to being overshadowed by the recent escape from house arrest of blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng. The activist, 40-year old lawyer has exposed forced sterilizations [...]
Bin Laden Schemed To Assassinate Obama
While holed up in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Osama bin Laden schemed to assassinate President Barack Obama to trigger a crisis in the United States. Included in his assassination plans was General David Petraeus. Last May when the U.S. attacked the compound where bin Laden was hiding, they found materials that showed that the leader of al-Qaeda [...]
Troubled TSA Continues to be Criticized
The Transportation Safety Administration has had its share of problems this year and they seem to be mounting each week. Last week the agency received criticism after two current and two former screeners for the agency were arrested for allegedly helping the flow of drugs to pass security checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport. The [...]
Napolitano Says Scandal was Inexcusable
Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security Secretary, said that the scandal in Cartagena, Colombia involving prostitutes and secret service agents did not cause any risk to the President of the United States. She made her comments to a Senate panel on Wednesday. She faced questioning for the first time since the prostitution scandal erupted in early [...]
As the shareholders in Germany opposes the re-election of Mr Flint as Chairman and Mr Gulliver CEO of HSBC Holdings ...
Since Obama seems to never know anything about any issue at any given time on any given subject from any ...
a one year high of $63.82? On May 15th?
What a nonsense, the shares were at $77.11!