EZ Wealth and Money

Despite sustained heckling from far-right legislators that compelled Parliamentary leaders to call a temporary recess, the bailout was approved in the small Alpine country by a healthy 117 to 53 margin. The vote meant that Austria agreed to raise its share of the bailout to 21.6 billion euros, or roughly $29.4 billion, from 12.2 billion [...]

Consider, for instance, Humbert Wolfe, a poet and author, who offered generations of reporters this refrain in his doggerel lines from the 1920s: “You cannot hope to bribe or twist, / thank God, the British journalist. / But, seeing what the man will do / unbribed, there’s no occasion to.” Less derisively, Nicholas Tomalin, a [...]

The Obama administration had long argued that Mr. Awlaki, 40, had joined the enemy in wartime, shifting from propaganda to an operational role in plots against the United States, and last year it quietly decided that he could be targeted for capture or death like any other Al Qaeda leader. It was unclear whether the [...]

But instead, the summit appears set to be dominated by the fading prospects for democracy in Ukraine, and the authoritarian tilt of the government in Belarus. Awkwardly for diplomats, the meetings on Thursday night and Friday coincide with the end of the politically charged trial of Yulia V. Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister and [...]

Mr. Medvedev’s interview came at the end of a jarring week in Russian politics. Last Saturday brought the news that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin will run for the presidency, which he can now occupy until 2024. In what is referred to here as a “castling move,” a term used in chess, Mr. Medvedev will [...]

Consider, for instance, Humbert Wolfe, a poet and author, who offered generations of reporters this refrain in his doggerel lines from the 1920s: “You cannot hope to bribe or twist, / thank God, the British journalist. / But, seeing what the man will do / unbribed, there’s no occasion to.” Less derisively, Nicholas Tomalin, a [...]

But they cautioned, as well, that the proliferation of post-Qaddafi militias here represented a potential threat. The delegation, led by Senator John McCain of Arizona, also said American investors were watching Libya with keen interest and wanted to do business here as soon as the Transitional National Council, as the interim government is known, had [...]

President Obama and Uzbekistan’s president, Islam Karimov, discussed expanding use of the Central Asian country as a route to supply troops in Afghanistan, a United States official said Thursday, amid growing concern about the viability of Pakistan as a transit route. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also met with her Uzbek counterpart on Thursday, [...]

Few question the coming electoral success of religious activists, but as they emerge from the shadows of a long, sometimes bloody struggle with authoritarian and ostensibly secular governments, they are confronting newly urgent questions about how to apply Islamic precepts to more open societies with very concrete needs. In Turkey and Tunisia, culturally conservative parties [...]