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. | Crude oil prices vaulted to a record high $80 a barrel on Wednesday as dealers focused on tight inventories in top consumer the United States ahead of peak winter demand.
A rash of fires at BP’s oil fields in Alaska’s North Slope added to the record run, though BP said the accidents had minimal impact to production that was already being curtailed by routine maintenance. |
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. | Russian President Vladimir Putin nominated Wednesday the head of the country’s financial regulator, Viktor Zubkov, for the post of prime minister.
The lower house of parliament could vote in the new premier on Friday, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said. |
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. | Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, has announced he is stepping down after less than a year in office that has seen his government rocked by a string of scandals and a humiliating election defeat.
“I have made my utmost efforts with my belief that we should not stop reforms,” Abe told a news conference in Tokyo. |
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. | Rukshin, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
“It is environmentally friendly, compared to a nuclear bomb, and it will enable us to ensure national security and at the same time stand up to international terrorism in any part of the globe and in How kind they are!! environmentally friendly bomb to kill people!!! |
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. | Acording BayBak, Cultural, economical and even geographical discriminations were condemned by a group of joint protesters. From Azerbaijan; DAK (World Azerbaijanis Congress), GAMOH and GAIP, together with Arabs, Turkmen’s, Balochis and Kurds have their message sent to Fars regime as one sentence: Stop the chauvinism! |
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. | Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country. |