Catherine Ashton, Europe’s top diplomat, has failed to provide the clout her office requires, a report by the European Parliament has concluded. Her successors are already jockeying for a position in the race to snag the EU’s most important foreign policy post.
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China took over management on Monday of Pakistan’s Gwadar port, en route to key Hormuz Straits oil shipping lanes, in a move which has prompted nerves in India about its fellow Asian giant’s growing strategic clout.
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The Multi Donor Trust Fund, working under the supervision of the World Bank, has approved million grant for Balochistan Disaster Management Project (BDMP).
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Just weeks before it was revealed JP Morgan Chase lost billions in “hedge” trading and speculation, it was announced that the bank has a new deal with Connecticut, Louisiana and other states to financialize their tax returns.
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As Republicans gathered for their national convention in Philadelphia a decade ago, Rick Santorum, who was then an up-and-coming senator from Pennsylvania, launched a charity that he said would improve the lives of low-income residents in his home state.
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What if, suddenly, ATMs weren’t issuing any more money, or airport security technology failed, or if hackers suddenly attacked critical infrastructure in Germany? Responses to scenarios like this were the subject of rehearsals by state and federal government in this week’s LUKEX crisis management exercise.
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