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Maliki's own Dawa Party has close ties to Iran and has in the past deflected questions about Iran's support for the Shi'a militias, instead fingering Iraq's Sunni neighbors - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan - for aiding terrorist groups. "We don't deny that Iran has an interest...
Though Royal began with a highly non-Socialist reminder of the parlous state of France's finances (public debt amounts to 64% of gross national product, or 18,000 euros per citizen), she followed that up with a long list of new and expensive programs that will hardly give France...
That's easier said than done in a throbbing boomtown like Macau. In 2002 the Chinese government lifted a 40-year monopoly on casinos in Macau, prompting a gambling-and-tourism explosion that brought a record 22 million visitors to the territory last year. Fueled by punters from mainland China...
Stifling regulations, absurd lawsuits and ambitious prosecutors are pushing companies to raise money overseas, the scolds in pinstripes warn, and unless the rules loosen up, within a decade New York City could slip behind London, Hong Kong or, yes, Dubai as a center of global finance. President George W. Bush...
But the law should be the hero of this tale. U.S. stock markets still attract more money and investors than any in the world, mostly because of a reputation for operating fairly. The strict rules "give companies the opportunity to tell investors, 'Look at the scrutiny we undergo. That's...