On July 26th, 2009, Colombia officials stated that they had found and captured three anti-tank rocket launchers sold to the Venezuelan army by Sweden, but were in a...

Ever since Syria and Turkey lifted their visa restrictions in September, Turkish visitors have poured into this picturesque northern city. Hawkers in Aleppo’s ancient...

President Barack Obama faces tensions with China over trade and Tibet on his first visit to the emerging superpower for a summit that will grapple with economic...

Afghanistan; once famous for its productivity and prosperity, life, and traditions had suffered and is still paying the price of a war enforced on them. Before this...

In an act of solidarity with the Palestinians, and the BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) movement against Israel; the Brazilian parliament has refused to ratify a...

Both governments face domestic pressure to take a tougher stand against the other on economic issues. But the trade frictions are increasing political tensions between...

Turkey was the second Muslim country to recognize Israel. And, unlike Egypt and Jordan, it did so back in 1949 (one year after Iran) and recognized Israel normally as...

The abrupt shutting of a giant wholesale market in Moscow dominated by Chinese merchants has stirred trade tensions between Moscow and Beijing. The market’s...

There may not be a more pointless American foreign policy than the Cuban embargo. When Fidel Castro declared himself a community in 1961, President Kennedy crabbed a...

We know that it is a politically delicate topic because Americans truly appreciate their constitutional rights, and particularly those that are part of the Second...

One of the most perplexing aspects of American foreign policy is the Cuban embargo, which is nearing its 70th year. It was Kennedy who instituted the embargo back in...

Since the day that Barrack Obama was elected as the first black president of United States of America, the world is expecting a change. They look at him to bring the...

India, as of now, does not have a well laid-out foreign policy worth the name. The strange faux-passe that the nation finds itself in since the most despicable...

In their recent paper on Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why have poor countries regulated sooner?, Mary Lovely and David Popp observe that late developers have...

Julie McCarthy’s description of a 100,000 acre soy farm in Brazil seems to symbolize peace, progress, and economic development: trends for a new Latin America. From...

More than a century after construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway line by the British colonial government and almost half a century after the two nations attained...

Singaporean retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung could probably afford to buy almost anything. But in early July, Singapore authorities alleged that Tang tried to make an outré...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that an accord in stalled global trade talks was only a question of time and that a deal was essential...

Ken Griffey Jr. agreed Thursday to accept a trade to the Chicago White Sox, leaving it up to the commissioner’s office to approve the deal because money is involved,

The computer glitch that hit the Johannesburg stock exchange yesterday cost billions of rands in potential trade.