Hard bargaining is intensifying over Europe’s efforts to regulate hedge funds and private equity funds on a pan-European basis for the first time. Six months of furious lobbying by the fund management industry has resulted in two heavily amended ver
The United States and Russia are unlikely to finish a pact to cut Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons by a December 5 deadline but still aim to close the deal by year-end, Russian and U.S. sources said Friday. Diplomats from the two biggest nuclear
MOSCOW - Russia on Sunday published its proposal for a new Euro-Atlantic security treaty that would restrict its ability to use military force unilaterally if the United States and its European allies agreed to do the same. President Dmitry Medvede
NANJING, China - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is urging China and other countries to make more ambitious commitments on curbing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Barroso welcomed fresh emission pledges by China and plans b
WASHINGTON - Outstanding issues between the United States and Russia have made it less likely that a deal to cut vast Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons will be finished by a December 5 deadline, a U.S. official said Friday. The official, speakin
MINSK - The United States and Russia will sign a deal this year to cut vast Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons but may miss an early December deadline, a Kremlin source told Reuters on Friday. Diplomats from the two biggest nuclear powers are try
ISTANBUL - The European Union urged Turkey Thursday to open its ports to Greek Cypriot vessels, ahead of a summit that may turn up pressure on Ankara over its refusal to comply with the terms of a trade pact with the bloc. It is very clear that th
WASHINGTON Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remai
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