Zhu Min, who assumed the office of the special adviser to the chief of the IMF in 2010 and has served as the vice president of the Bank of China and the vice governor of the People‘s Bank of China, Chinese central bank, has studied and worked in the United States for many years..

Spain is holding regional elections this weekend. Investors are afraid that the new politicians expected to take office will say that the country is even more deeply in debt than the current government had forecast, said Brown Brothers Harriman analyst Marc Chandler. That raises the possibility that Spain would need to seek a bailout, following the path of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

So soll das Renteneintrittsalter erhöht und die staatliche Rente um Beiträge aus eigener Tasche ergänzt werden. Auf Kritik stieß auch das von Gesundheitsminister Leos Heger forcierte Vorhaben, die Kostensteigerung im Gesundheitswesen mit Zusatzbeiträgen zu bremsen. Patienten müssten dann etwa bei teuren Operationen privat dazubezahlen. Einige Redner forderten sogar einen Generalstreik, um Neuwahlen zu erzwingen.

Die Protestbewegung denkt angesichts des Erfolgs inzwischen darüber nach, die Demonstrationen auf unbestimmte Zeit fortzusetzen. Ursprünglich sollten sie nur bis zum Wahltag dauern. „Es ist fantastisch, wir schreiben Geschichte. Darüber werden noch unsere Kinder und Enkelkinder lesen“, sagte eine Sprecherin der Bewegung am Samstag auf dem Platz der Puerta del Sol im Herzen Madrids. „Die Welt schaut auf uns“, meinte ein anderer Aktivist angesichts des steigenden Interesses internationaler Medien.

Die Agentur S&P hat Italien vor einer Herabstufung gewarnt und den Ausblick für das Rating auf „negativ“ gesenkt.

Die Ratingagentur Fitch hat ihre Bewertung für das hoch verschuldete Griechenland um drei Stufen gesenkt.

„It‘s the young who are leading this,“ says Alfredo Guerra, admiringly, as he listens in on one assembly. A hotel worker, aged 56, he also lost his job in the recession.

„Our life is practically over, but they are acting for their future. They have everything to gain and nothing to lose,“ he says.

Thomas Schulz, 28 años, de Stuttgart, es el creador de www.spanishrevolution.eu y confía en que los políticos, pero sobre todo los medios, no volverán a ser iguales en un futuro.

TD International is the same company Strauss-Kahn, then a private citizen, hired in 2007 to advise him on how to navigate international and Washington politics in his bid to become managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Documents filed in 2008 with the Foreign Agents Registration section of the U.S. Justice Department show that Strauss-Kahn, who is French, retained TD International as his „U.S.-based communications resource.“

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HARI SREENIVASAN: The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was released from jail in New York today. Law enforcement officials said he posted $1 million bail and was taken under armed guard to an undisclosed safe house.

Just a week ago Spain was known for the passivity of its citizens as they put up with one of the most depressing eras in recent history. Despite unemployment hitting 21%, widespread spending cuts and a socialist government bound to obey the diktats of Germany‘s chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the financial markets, they had refused to show their pain. Marches, sit-ins or riots were for the French – or British students. The real drama, anyway, was in North Africa. Spaniards stayed at home.

All that changed this week as demonstrations organised via Facebook and Twitter became static protests in city squares, mushrooming into something that caught politicians, unions and the media by surprise.

In joint remarks after a meeting with Netanyahu, Obama said the two had „discussed the situation in Syria, which is obviously of acute concern to Israel, given its shared border.“

Obama said he gave the Israeli prime minister more details about „significant steps“ the administration is taking to try to pressure Syria and regime of President Bashar al-Assad to reform, „including the sanctions that we placed directly on President Assad.“

The UN Security Council resolution on Libya, to which Russia voted, was manipulated by a number of countries, said President Medvedev, adding the development of events proved that such resolutions can be manipulated and consequently the UN position could be undermined

Syria‘s national news agency (SANA) said 17 civilians, police and security forces were killed on Friday after some armed groups exploited the „commitment of police forces to specific instructions by the Interior Ministry not to shoot to preserve the lives of civilians.

„These groups opened fire on police forces, vandalized and burned some public and private properties as well as some police units in a number of areas,“ SANA said, adding several security and police forces were wounded.

Heute ist das Land ein brutaler Polizeistaat. Es regiert die Angst, sagt Nabil Rajab, ein Menschenrechtler: „Ärzte wurden verfolgt, Krankenschwestern, Lehrer, Gewerkschafter, Menschenrechtsaktivisten, Blogger, Journalisten, Anwälte – alle, weil sie bei dem Aufstand mitgemacht oder mit ihm sympathisiert hatten. Schülerinnen waren eine treibende Kraft, deshalb wurden viele festgenommen und einige systematisch gefoltert, Lehrer auch. Es gibt Fälle sexueller Gewalt, auch gegen Schüler, aber vor allem gegen Schülerinnen.“