Japan announced a Y7,200bn ($81bn) stimulus package that will help shore up the economy's fragile recovery, but also further strain state finances in a fiscal year when debt issuance will outstrip tax revenues for the first time since 1946.Tuesday’s
WASHINGTON - Questioned by skeptical lawmakers, the U.S. general running the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday he did not get as many troops as he wanted and must work under a schedule he did not recommend, but he insisted the Obama administration's r
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama was elected ona promise to fix the problems at home. Americans praise himinstead for escalating the war in Afghanistan and disapprove ofhis handling of the economy and health care. A Bloomberg National
MSPs are being asked to change the law and criminalise the purchase of sex.The End Prostitution Now campaign, launched by Glasgow City Council, aims to create no hiding place for the pimps, punters and brothel keepers . It is pushing for legislat
TOKYO - Japan announced a huge 274 billion dollar stimulus Tuesday to jump-start a fragile recovery in the world's second largest economy, including more than 80 billion dollars in direct spending. The pump-priming is meant to boost a gradual retur
TOKYO, Dec 8 – Japan’s ruling coalition government finalised a Y7,200bn ($80.6 billion) stimulus package on Tuesday after a tiny coalition partner backed down from its call for larger spending to bolster the economy. The spending – which amounts to
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Minerals Management Service on Monday conditionally approved plans by Shell Oil Co. to drill three exploratory wells next year in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the deci
Oleg Deripaska is likely to have to give up his attempt to launch a $2bn initial public offering of his UC Rusal aluminium group before Christmas after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced a further delay on Monday.The exchange’s decision that it
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