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  • Sovereign debt and the euro: All for one

    Eurocrats offer up half-baked ideas to prevent a future sovereign-debt scare

    NOW that Greece has given in to pressure from its peers for a more austere budget, the euro zone’s policy brass suddenly seems more sympathetic towards its most troubled member. On reflection, perhaps the fault with Greece’s parlous public finances...

  • The Israel-Palestine peace process: More than just a charade?

    The Israeli-Palestinian peace process resumes, after a fashion

    IT WAS a wretched beginning to what had been hailed as the hopeful resumption of peace talks, albeit indirect ones, between the Israelis and Palestinians under the aegis of an American mediator. Barely had America’s vice-president, Joe Biden, begun a visit to Israel...

  • Life insurance: Snoopy sniffs an opportunity

    AIG reluctantly hands its crown as America’s global life insurer to MetLife

    ANOTHER week, another opportunity for AIG’s rivals to expand at the American insurer’s expense. Days after sealing a $35.5 billion deal for its Asian life-insurance operations with Britain’s Prudential, the firm, which is being dismembered to recoup bail-out...

  • EADS and America: Accusations fly

    Did protectionism force EADS to scrap a $35 billion bid to supply the American air force?

    THE announcement on Monday March 8th that Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS were pulling out of a bid for a $35 billion contract to build air-refuelling tankers for the United States Air Force...

  • Brazil, America and trade: Picking a fight

    Brazil fires another salvo in its dispute with America over cotton subsidies

    HOW serious is the decision by Brazil’s government, announced on Tuesday March 8th, to raise duties on a number of American-made imports? The increases are sizeable for goods such as cosmetics (tariffs will double, to 36%) and many household...

  • Sectarian violence in Nigeria: Deadly reprisals

    Sectarian violence kills hundreds in Nigeria

    THE number plates in Nigeria’s Plateau State declare it to be the “Home of Peace and Tourism”. This has seemed ever more optimistic in recent years, as the state capital, Jos, has been battered by brutal violence, with fresh attacks over the weekend reportedly leaving...

  • Iraq's election: Defiant Iraqis

    Counting begins after Iraq's modestly hopeful general election

    DESPITE a wave of violent attacks, millions of voters took part on Sunday March 7th in the second full parliamentary election in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. In a country slowly emerging from years of bloody fighting, voters faced a choice between a...

  • The coming days: The week ahead

    Renewed diplomatic efforts over Iran's nuclear activities

    • AFTER Iran announced that its long-delayed Bushehr civilian nuclear plant will be operational within a few months, American diplomats will renew efforts to obtain further sanctions against the Islamic republic over its suspected efforts to build a nuclear bomb. Hillary Clinton, the American...

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