Dazu wurde die Liste von Ländern gekürzt, die iranisches Öl kaufen dürfen, ohne dass sie dabei gegen das Sanktionsregime verstoßen würden.

Diplomaten erwarten beim EU-Gipfel zur Finanzierung der Europäischen Union von 2014 bis 2020 mühsame und lange Verhandlungen

Am Mittwochmorgen zeigte sich der EU-Ratspräsident Van Rompuy noch „zuversichtlich, dass der von mir am 22. November gemachte Vorschlag mit einigen Anpassungen die Basis für eine Einigung im Europäischen Rat sein kann“, zitiert ihn die Nachrichtenagentur AFP aus seinem Einladungsschreiben.

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Louisa Gouliamaki‘s image draws our attention to the plight of the Greek people

Board members at Monte dei Paschi are expected to say on Wednesday that Italy‘s third largest bank may have lost up to 1 billion euros on opaque derivatives trades, far higher than the initial estimate.

‚We can offer a big credit line and we are ready to put all our experience at the service of the Egyptian brothers‘, said Ahmadinejad. ‚If Egypt and Iran join forces, they can unite all countries in the region‘, the president also said.

What if the IMF officially admitted wrong multipliers and false calculations applied for the Greek austerity program. Horst Reichenabch, head of the EU Task Force rejects any discussion on a possible program modification.

If the euro zone loses the global ‚currency war‘, the price will be paid in growth and jobs and fresh tensions about the future of the bloc.

Spain‘s recession has led to an increasing number of families and companies which declared bankruptcy, obtaining the suspension of payments to creditors, according to data published on Wednesday by national statistics bureau Ine.

Griechische Bauern protestierten in Athen gegen hohe Steuern und Energiekosten, indem sie kostenlos Lebensmittel an die verarmte Bevölkerung der Stadt verteilten. Das Gedränge war groß – es gab etliche Verletzte.

The Social Democrat candidate for the German chancellorship, Peer Steinbrueck, was scheduled to meet with top Greek officials in Athens on Wednesday

Brennan diente als CIA-Chef in Saudi-Arabien, wo er die Einrichtung eines Drohnenstützpunktes organisierte, von dem aus Ziele im Jemen angegriffen werden.

For more than a year, the paper refrained from disclosing the location of a secret US military base in Saudi Arabia from which CIA drones were launched.

It did so at the request of the Obama administration

In the case of the Seychelles base, officials previously claimed that drones were being used to track pirates. But, according to the Post, the cables showed they‘ve conducted missions over Somalia hundreds of miles away.

The Obama administration’s targeted-killing program has relied on a growing constellation of drone bases operated by the CIA and the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command. (…)

The Washington Post had refrained from disclosing the specific location at the request of the administration

„We call on all the relevant sides to remain calm and exercise restraint and earnestly work hard to maintain peace and stability in the Korean peninsula,“ she told a daily news briefing.

“Actually, there was an initial explosion in the basement seconds before the plane hit. I spoke about it – they didn’t want me to talk about it,” said William Rodriguez, a janitor working for 20 years in the North Tower of the World Trade Center buildings during the attack.