Panetta defends military budget plan Breitbart | FILE - In this Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.... | LOLITA C. BALDOR (AP) - Associated Press WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending his department's slimmed-down, $614 billion budget plan, telling senators that it's time to step up and show they are seriou...
Good news is bad news for Romney Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | When good news happens to a bad candidate like Mitt Romney, it makes an already difficult situation worse. He has enough trouble communicating any message, much less a mixed one. | What's he to do with good economic news, a source of joy to most of his fellow Americans but a real downer for the se...
Panetta defends military budget plan Breitbart | FILE - In this Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.... | LOLITA C. BALDOR (AP) - Associated Press WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is defending his department's slimmed-down, $614 billion budget plan, telling senators ...
Iraq pumps oil to new Gulf terminal to boost export capacity Middle East Online | FAW (Iraq) - Iraq began pumping oil on Sunday to the first of five floating terminals in the Gulf in a move that will increase its export capacity by 850,000 barrels per day. | Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki symbolically opened the valve of a pipeli...
Iraq opens new oil export terminal in Persian Gulf Atlanta Journal | BAGDHAD — Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing sorely needed cash for reconstruction after decades of war and international sanctions. More business news | Now that Southwest is...
Iraq opens new oil export terminal in Persian Gulf Palm Beach Post | BAGDHAD — Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing sorely needed cash for reconstruction after decades of war and international sanctions. | Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad says ...
Iraq's Sunni MPs lift their boycott of Maliki cabinet The Independent | The government of the Shia Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, set off the political crisis in December by issuing an arrest warrant against the country's most senior Sunni official, Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi, and charged him with running death ...
Iraq to award $3b in power plant projects Gulf News | Doha: Iraq will award seven contracts this month with a combined value of $3 billion (Dh11.01 billion) to build 7,000 megawatts of electricity generation, part of a three-year plan to expand power capacity, an Electricity Ministry official sai...
Commercial traffic resumes on Iraq's Shatt al-Arab France24 | AFP - Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. | Part of the 200 kilometre (120 mile) long waterway forms a se...
Afghanistan and US in 'secret Taliban talks' Al Jazeera | The US and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. | "There have been contacts between the US government and the Taliban, there have been contacts between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and there have been some contacts that we have made, all of us together, including ...
Venezuela primary to set up Capriles-Chavez showdown The Star | CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition supporters vote on Sunday in a primary likely to anoint youthful governor Henrique Capriles as the candidate to face socialist President Hugo Chavez in an October election that is already shaping up as a fierce fight. Opposition frontrunner presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski speaks to the f...
