APNewsBreak: Higher enrichment at Iranian site GEORGE JAHN Published: 18 minutes ago World powers negotiators arrive at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Negotiators from the U.S. and five other world powers sat down Wednesday with a team of Iranian diplomats to try to hammer out specific goals in the years-long impasse over Tehran's nuclear program.(AP Photo/Mohammed Ameen, Pool) VIENNA (AP) - The U.N. atomic agency has found evidence at an underground bunker in Iran that could mean the country has moved closer to producing the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles, diplomats said Friday.The International Atomic Energy Agency has found traces of uranium enriched up to 27 percent at Iran's Fordo enrichment plant, the diplomats told The Associated Press.That ... Continue reading →
The list of candidates for the post of Director-General was closed at midnight on Friday, 9 March 2012, at which time the following nine candidatures had been received: Mr Gilles de Robien, Mr Angelino Garzón, Mr Ad Melkert, Mr Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Mr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Mr Assane Diop, Ms Mona Sahlin, Mr Guy Ryder and Mr Charles Dan. Continue reading →
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's presidential campaign has been full of startling moments. At one point, ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister rode into a rally on a white horse like a knight, promising to restore Mubarak-era stability and ensure secular rule.A veteran of the old regime, Ahmed Shafiq was himself booted from office by protests weeks after his former boss fell last year. Now he's a presidential candidate, his dramatic entrance before a cheering crowd typifying the choices facing Egyptians in this week's landmark vote, between voices from the authoritarian past and Islamists promising an uncertain future.Egyptians can choose from an unimaginable range of 13 candidates following decades of fixed contests that guaranteed Mubarak's re-election. Perhaps most surprising, the election is completely up in ... Continue reading →
The list of candidates for the post of Director-General was closed at midnight on Friday, 9 March 2012, at which time the following nine candidatures had been received: Mr Gilles de Robien, Mr Angelino Garzón, Mr Ad Melkert, Mr Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Mr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Mr Assane Diop, Ms Mona Sahlin, Mr Guy Ryder and Mr Charles Dan. Continue reading →
INCHING through the crowded streets of Bangladesh’s capital brings both exhilaration and frustration. Dhaka’s garishly painted tricycle rickshaws, battered buses, occasional goats and luxury cars somehow all manage to creep onward. Drivers skilled at furious honking are also masters of compromise and smiles. If only the bitter politicians could prove so deft. Some 18 months before a general election, Bangladesh suffers street protests. Opposition leaders are sent to jail, and disappearances and murders are widely blamed on an old rivalry for power. A confrontation over the next poll—who should oversee it, and whether it will be fair—is already so strident that some observers doubt a contested one will be held at all. Meanwhile, Bangladeshis fret over prices of food and fuel, chronic power cuts and ... Continue reading →
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles. Foreign investors in Haiti have largely directed their efforts at rebuilding from a devastating 2010 earthquake, focusing their funds on Port-au-Prince and the overlapping cities that make up the capital and the country's sleepy coastlines. But ex-Haiti soccer star Robert "Boby" Duval, the mastermind of the $5 million project, developer Delos LLC and architect Carlos Zapata are looking elsewhere - at a city of tin shacks and open sewage canals shunned by investors, avoided by diplomats and ... Continue reading →
Unfortunately this disparity is one of the cons of capitalism. The easier you can be replaced, the less your pay would be. Forget CEOs, what about the wealth management and financial people? What service to society do they bring about other than being the middle man and moving around other people's money and following trends? Principle holders take all the risk and they get the reward. louie000000000000000 1 hour ago Continue reading →
