Published: Feb 16, 2012
Besieged by international sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program including a planned oil embargo by Europe, Iran warned six European buyers on Wednesday that it might strike first by immediately cutting them off from Iranian oil. Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said the threat was conveyed to the ambassadors of Italy, Spain,
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Published: Feb 16, 2012
WASHINGTON — A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week — assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of economic retaliation — suggest that Iranian leaders are responding frantically, and with increasing unpredictability, to
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON — China ’s next leader, Xi Jinping , may never have heard of American Superconductor Corporation before he arrived here Monday, but by the end of his visit United States officials hope to make the small Massachusetts wind-energy company an object lesson in the impact of Chinese trade secret theft on American business. Senator
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Published: Feb 14, 2012
BEIJING -- If the World Bank is correct, 2012 will be the second-weakest year for the global economy in a decade, at a level consistent with a world recession that like the 2008-9 financial crisis, will not spare Asia. Its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund, has warned that economic expansion in China could be cut in half this
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Published: Feb 13, 2012
FRANKFURT -- Few would begrudge Mario Draghi his boast last week that he and the European Central Bank had prevented a disastrous credit crisis by showering banks with cheap loans in December. But beneath the gratitude toward Mr. Draghi, the president of the central bank, lurks a fear that the easy money could simply be creating the conditions for
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Published: Feb 07, 2012
MUNICH -- When Thomas de Maizière described the state of the trans-Atlantic relationship to a packed audience in Munich, he shied away from unpalatable truths. Yes, the German defense minister conceded last Friday, there have always been ups and downs in the relationship, and there has always been criticism that Europe was not pulling its weight
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Published: Feb 07, 2012
WASHINGTON -- For years, scientists and policy makers have been trying to address two improbably linked problems that hinge on a single radioactive isotope: how to reduce the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation, and how to assure supplies of a material used in thousands of heart, kidney and breast procedures a year. They seemed to be getting
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Published: Jan 31, 2012
Lawmakers dissatisfied with the performance of the Transportation Security Administration are pushing to revive a proposal the agency has resisted -- allowing airports to use screeners hired by private contractors -- so the agency can focus more on its role as overseer, rather than operator, of airport security. Just 16 of the 450 or so commercial
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Published: Jan 30, 2012
STRATEGIC VISION America and the Crisis of Global Power By Zbigniew Brzezinski Illustrated. 208 pages. Basic Books. $26. The 2008 crash and America and Europe's continuing economic woes; the rise of China and worries about the decline of the West; and technology-fueled uprisings around the world from the Arab Spring protests to anti-Putin
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Published: Jan 26, 2012
DUBAI -- Masdar, a renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi, plans to spend millions of dirhams in clean energy projects in Scotland after signing an agreement with the Scottish government. Research will be coordinated through the Energy Technology Partnership, an alliance of 12 independent Scottish universities engaged in energy-related
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