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Analysis
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
By Sinikka Tarvainen -
Spain was bracing for a power struggle within its governing Socialist Party after Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that he will not seek a third term in the 2012 elections. The power struggle was expected to pit Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalc
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
By Phil Stewart and Caren Bohan -
As Libya adds a third war to President Barack Obama’s growing list of foreign policy challenges, a big question is how soon a long-anticipated shakeup of US defence leadership might unfold.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the military’s top officer, is expected to retire af
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
By Patricia Velez and Caroline Stauffer -
The two most polarising candidates in Peru’s presidential race, Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori, could face each other in a run-off vote as a moderate majority splinters among three other candidates.
In a tight five-way race before the first-round vote
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
By Linda Sieg -
Japan’s two biggest parties look as though they might put aside bitter rivalry and join hands to recover from the devastation left by last month’s massive earthquake and tsunami, which triggered a nuclear crisis that is still far from under control.
But partisan bickering could st
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
By Aseel Kami and Serena Chaudhry -
Frustrated by little support from his government and chasing a dream of having his own business, Iraqi nurse Sabah Jassim pooled his savings and turned to a private bank to develop a medical clinic in Baghdad.
Jassim is one of hundreds of entrepreneurial Iraqis
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
By Nicholas Vinocur -
French President Nicolas Sarkozy might just recover from dire poll ratings to avoid an early exit when he seeks re-election next year, but first he must tackle unemployment and restore the nation’s sense of pride.
Bruised from conservative losses in local elections last week
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
By Gleb Gorodyankin -
Belarus’s struggle to pay rapidly mounting Russian oil bills will probably lead to a new oil pricing dispute with Moscow as early as October, potentially jeopardising huge oil and gas flows to Europe. Russia, which has been trying to wean former Soviet states off subsidised e
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
By David Fogarty -
An Australian scheme to generate farm- and forest-linked carbon credits for sale to polluting firms will start slowly when it comes online later this year, as the government struggles to garner support for a national carbon price seen as crucial to the plan’s long-term success.
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Monday, 4 April, 2011
By Amy Coopes -
Floods, cyclones, earthquakes — even a nuclear crisis and trouble in the Middle East have been unable to slow the Australian dollar’s record-breaking ascent. Known among traders as the “Aussie”, the commodities-linked currency surged to new highs against the greenback last week, to
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Monday, 4 April, 2011
By Peter Muhly -
Politicians on all sides in Northern Ireland have insisted the killing of a policeman will not be allowed to derail the peace process, as the province gears up for elections. Ronan Kerr, 25, and who completed his training only three weeks back, was killed on Saturday by the booby-
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