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Nine states pose fiscal threat to US recovery

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Nicole Bullock - Nov. 11 (News Report) - Some of the same financial troubles that have pushed California toward economic disaster are wreaking havoc in nine other states and posing a threat to the nascent recovery, according to research released

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Nobel committee defends Obama choice

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Andrew Ward - Oct. 11 (News Report) - US president credited with promoting international fraternity in multilateral diplomacy, nuclear arms reduction and tackling climate change

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Terrorist suspect linked to ‘big bang’ facility

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Ben Hall - Oct. 10 (News Report) - One of two men arrested in France on suspicion of having links with an Islamist terrorist group was working as a researcher at the Cern “big bang” laboratory on the French-Swiss border, the nuclear research body said

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Regulation: Doubts over political resolve for reform

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Norma Cohen - Oct. 08 (Special Report) - politicians of all stripes on both sides of the atlantic, spurred on by taxpayers' outrage....vowed to get tough. ....but just one year later...it is not clear that the political resolve remains as strong.

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Iran ‘has secret nuclear arms plan’

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By James Blitz, Daniel Dombey - Sep. 30 (News Report) - Britain’s intelligence services say that Iran has been secretly designing a nuclear warhead “since late 2004 or early 2005”, an assessment that suggests Tehran has embarked on the final steps towards acquiring nuclear weapons capability.

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Iran tests the world’s collective will

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Gideon Rachman - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Barack Obama normally likes to talk about hope. Last week at the United Nations he had the audacity to fear. The US president conjured up a vision of a dystopian world: “Extremists sowing terror ... Protracted conflicts that grind on and on. Genocide and mass atrocities. More and more nations with nuclear weapons. Melting ice caps and ravaged populations.” That is our collective future, according to Mr Obama, unless the world’s leaders co-operate to find “global solutions to global problems”.

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A shift in gear

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Tony Barber - Sep. 19 (News Report) - Amid queries on state aid and competition, the deal brokered by Germany to save carmaker Opel has raised the problem of how the EU handles a slowing but still significant sector

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EU calls on G20 to rule on bankers’ bonuses

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Tony Barber - Sep. 19 (News Report) - European Union leaders have called on the US and other G20 governments to impose binding rules on bankers’ bonuses, backed up by sanctions if necessary, when they meet in Pittsburgh next week. The EU’s 27 heads of government also said on Thursday that all nations, except the poorest, should contribute to financing the fight against climate change in developing countries.

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A lopsided world tilts upward, slowly

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - Sep. 19 (Editorial) - The world economy is shifting gears. It has gone from reverse to neutral – even the US is probably out of recession, says Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman. The task facing leaders at the Group of 20 nations’ summit in Pittsburgh next week will be to pick up speed – but safely.

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How Lehman collapsed

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Francesco Guerrera - Sep. 14 (Special Report) - A year on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Francesco Guerrera examines how and why the bank failed, providing the inside story from John Thain, Bob Diamond, et al.

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Fox News host sparks outrage

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Edward Luce - Sep. 02 (News Analysis) - If the White House is trying to figure how it lost control of the debate over healthcare in August, it could take a look at Glenn Beck’s television and radio ratings. The conservative talk radio host, who also has an hourly slot on Fox News every day, has seen his viewer numbers soar even as opponents have pressed companies to withdraw advertising from the show.

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Afghanistan is now Obama's war

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Clive Crook - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - Victory will be impossible without greater expense of lives and money, withdrawal involves great dangers and, to complete the president's quandary, his rationale for fighting does not convince

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Deficit fears put Obama's reforms in jeopardy

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Edward Luce - Aug. 26 (News Analysis) - Tuesday's sharply upgraded forecasts for growth in US national debt over the next decade could hardly have come at a worse time for Barack Obama.

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Afghan poll concerns threaten credibility

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Matthew Green - Aug. 25 (News Report) - Allegations of intimidation and cheating by officials in Afghanistan’s presidential election multiplied on Monday, threatening to sap credibility from a vote crucial to Barack Obama’s strategy for fighting the Taliban

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Abdullah alleges rigging in Afghan poll

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Matthew Green, James Lamont - Aug. 23 (News Report) - The main rival to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan’s presidential election accused the government of widespread rigging on Saturday but said he would use legal means to seek redress and not urge his supporters onto the streets. Abdullah Abdullah, who once served Mr Karzai as foreign minister, said preliminary results due in the next few days would reveal whether government officials had succeeded in their attempts to manipulate the vote.

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The prosaic professor

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Edward Luce - Aug. 22 (Opinion) - As Barack Obama battles to convince Congress and populace of the need to enact healthcare reform, lyrical rhetoric is eluding him and presidential approval ratings are on the wane

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We must face reality in Afghanistan

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Gilles Dorronsoro - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - America still has a limited and achievable objective in Afghanistan: securing a viable state and preventing al-Qaeda from regaining its lost base. But US planners must recognise that the public will not countenance an endless demand for more troops, says Gilles Dorronsoro

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US claims success in thwarting Taliban

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Farhan Bokhari, Daniel Dombey - Aug. 18 (News Report) - The US said that Taliban insurgents had failed to derail Afghanistan's elections, to be held on Thursday, with a wave of violent attacks.

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US looks to reduce reliance on Karzai

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Joshua Partlow, Karen DeYoung - Aug. 17 (News Report) - With a new round of elections one week away — and Mr Karzai favoured to win another term — a less-enamoured Obama administration is already looking for ways to lessen US reliance on the Afghan president by working more closely with favoured ministers and bolstering the authority of provincial and local leaders, according to US and Afghan officials.

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Leaders meet as recession bites deep in Mexico

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Ronald Buchanan - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Before heading off to Guadalajara for talks today with his two "amigos" from Canada and Mexico, US president Barack Obama blamed the weakened states of their economies as the reason for his promised reworking of the North American Free Trade Agreement being taken off the table.

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Swat refugees begin to take long road home

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Farhan Bokhari - Jul. 29 (News Report) - Siraj Khan and his family began making their way back by bus to Pakistan’s Swat valley last week, just three months after being uprooted along with 2m others by fighting between the military and Taliban.

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US seeks closer China ties

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Daniel Dombey, Sarah O'Connor - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Barack Obama sought to recast the US's relationship with China, urging Asia's rising superpower to forge deeper ties with Washington on the economy, climate change and nuclear proliferation.

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UK sets out plans for low-carbon economy

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - Jul. 15 (News Report) - Investments in renewable energy, nuclear power, fuel-efficient vehicles and other forms of low-carbon manufacturing were laid out by the government on Wednesday morning as it unveiled the UK's industrial strategy for fighting global warming

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Two cheers for US health reform

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Clive Crook - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - After a frazzled week, the politics of US health reform looks messier than ever. Yet the odds on a bill passing in the end are improving. It will be an untidy thing, but if it moves the country close to universal health insurance the administration will call it a success. And on the whole, despite the avoidable mistakes this legislation seems bound to embody, that will be a fair assessment.

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Deayton bug

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Ben Fenton - Jul. 12 (News Report) - On another occasion, Mr Deayton became suspicious that information from private phone calls was appearing in newspapers, and an investigation found a bug inside a telephone junction box on the pavement near his London home.

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