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EU to suspend Sri Lanka trading privileges over rights: officials
Published on 6 Feb, 2010 at 1:38 in Politics | Viewed 4,429 times | 16 Comments
EU nations have decided to suspend Sri Lanka’s preferential trade status because of the island’s human rights record and will make the formal move later this month, officials said Friday. “European ambassadors have taken the decision. The EU Commission’s investigation showed Sri Lanka has not demonstrated that it has taken the steps that would allow
AP source: Christmas bomb suspect flips on cleric
A law enforcement official says the Nigerian suspect in the failed Christmas Day airliner attack has given up intelligence about a radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO’-mahr fah-ROOK’ ahb-DOOL’-moo-TAH’-lahb) has been cooperating with the FBI. He has provided information about Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric who has emerged as a prominent
Obama says unemployment drop “cause for hope”
President Barack Obama says an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate is cause for hope but not celebration. Speaking Friday at a small business in a Washington suburb, Obama took care not to trumpet the gains outlined in the new government report too loudly. He said the data shows modest progress toward “climbing out of
Where is tea party heading? Leaves are unclear
The “tea party” activists all agree: Government is too big. Spending is out of control. Individual freedom is at risk. And President Barack Obama’s policies are making it all worse. But that’s where the consensus ends among the diverse groups of frustrated Americans who count themselves part of this fledgling coalition. “We’re afraid and we’re
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