JOHANNESBURG - The Red Cross says they need $32 million to feed 220,000 Zimbabweans who cannot access hard currency in the collapsed economy. The Red Cross' Zimbabwe representative Stephen Omollo said Wednesday the International Federation of Red Cr
The government has announced a £60m aid package to help Teesside recover from the loss of 1,700 jobs at the Corus steelworks plant in Redcar.Business secretary Lord Mandelson said the support would be a combination of direct and immediate he
Federal prosecutors charged a Chicago resident Monday with serving as an advance man for Islamist terrorists who carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai bombing, underscoring what they said is the potential for international terrorists to gain a foothold
South Africa offered Monday to slash the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 42 percent by 2025, but in exchange wants rich nations to expand aid for poor countries to cope with climate change. President Jacob Zuma's offer, announced in a stat
The UK's refusal to extend the winter fuel allowance for people with chronic illnesses is absolutely outrageous , a leading cancer specialist has said.Professor Karol Sikora said sufferers facing spiralling winter fuel bills should be given urgent
Tim Geithner on Friday rejectedGoldman Sachs’ claim that it could have withstood the financial crisis without government intervention, adding that all banks were at risk of being wiped out.“None of them would have survived a situation in which we ha
MEXICO CITY The United States has spent a fraction of the money pledged just $24 million of $1.3 billion appropriated to help in its bloody three-year-old battle against the drug cartels that have turned parts of country into a zone and left 15
The European Central Bank on Thursday night embarked firmly on dismantling the exceptional measures it has taken to shore up the eurozone’s financial system, even as it remained highly cautious on the region’s economic prospects.Jean-Claude Trichet,
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