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Canadian investor Arthur Wong is buying condos in Las Vegas and Phoenix like a shopper at Costco: In bulk, with slashed prices.
Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets rose in September as China and other countries boosted their holdings of Treasury securities.
The Obama administration nominated a young former executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to run the nation's top foreign assistance program Tuesday, ending months of speculation and complaints about who would take the vacant post.
A bill designed to keep foreign countries from disposing their nuclear waste in the United States is taking a small but significant step toward getting a U.S. House committee vote for the first time.
Federal regulators told Congress on Friday that they have no power to stop Italy or any other country from dumping tons of radioactive waste in the United States.
Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets rose in August even though China trimmed its holdings of Treasury securities.
A Vietnamese court has sentenced six people to up to 4 1/2 years in prison for arranging more than 300 fraudulent adoptions, a court official said Tuesday.
When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work.
Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets fell in July, but China boosted its holdings, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.
Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets rebounded in June even though China and Russia trimmed their holdings.
American presidents rewarding top campaign fundraisers with plum ambassadorships has long been common practice for both parties. But should "bundlers" get these jobs? Are they qualified?
A Pennsylvania woman charged with placing foreign exchange students in filthy homes with little food has turned herself in to authorities.
Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets dropped by the largest amount in four months in May, as Japan and Russia trimmed their holdings of Treasury securities.
U.S. agents trying to stop contraband, arms and drug smuggling at the port of Los Angeles will soon get a new partner in their decades-old battle — an officer from Mexico.
Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets fell in April as both China and Japan trimmed their holdings of Treasury securities.
President Barack Obama will stress what the White House calls his personal commitment "based upon mutual interests and mutual respect" to strengthening U.S. ties to the Muslim world in a much-anticipated speech in Egypt next week.
An increasingly emboldened Iran is both complicating and giving promise to the Obama administration's efforts to forge peace in the Middle East.
Foreign demand for long-term U.S. financial assets rose in March as both China and Japan bought more Treasury securities.
Western Illinois University senior Eric Skelton planned to spend part of May and June in central Mexico. The 23-year-old business management major had already paid a $200 deposit and was excited about the prospect of traveling to Queretaro.
As President Barack Obama embarks on his first overseas trip as president, he is vowing to listen to his foreign counterparts and strengthn alliances when world powers meet in Europe this coming week to address the economic crisis and work to stem future financial catastrophes.
President Barack Obama telephoned the leaders of Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and Argentina on Friday to discuss working together on the world's economic crisis, among other issues.
China is looking to next month's meeting of world leaders in London to boost confidence and global coordination in dealing with the world financial crisis, its foreign minister said Saturday.
After Ukraine's currency collapsed in the global meltdown, so did Valery Ilyin's household finances — and, he fears, his family's dream of a bigger home.
Voters in Switzerland approved an expanded labor deal with the European Union on Sunday that allows Romanians and Bulgarians to work in the Alpine republic.
Pakistan says the United Nations will help organize an international effort to overcome the country's massive security and economic problems.
Iraq VP vetoes new election law One of Iraq's two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country's new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt.
Topic : Auditor General's report - thestar.comAuditor General Sheila Fraser, an Officer of Parliament, audits federal government departments, agencies and most Crown corporations and makes regular reports to the House of Commons.
Ron Paul: Government Can Quarantine the PeopleA national emergency has been declared in the United States! But it has nothing to do with the war in Afghanistan, the economic crisis, or the Iranian nuclear situation. Instead, it's all about the H1N1 virus.
Omar Khadr case cost Ottawa $1.3 millionOttawa has spent more than $1.3-million fighting against Toronto-born captive Omar Khadr, who has been held at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre for seven years, the government has revealed.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | A state of denialThe GHQ attack has drawn accusations from several quarters in Pakistan that it was inspired by foreign powers; some have named India and the US among the usual suspects.
German teens to recreate Berlin WallGerman teenagers create about 1,000 oversized, colorful dominos to rebuild the Berlin Wall - before they're toppled, 20 years after the original fell.
4,000 foreigners join Taliban, minister saysThousands of foreign fighters have poured into Afghanistan to bolster the Taliban insurgency, the country's defense minister says in a plea for more international troops.
South America: Will defense spending trigger an arms race? | csmonitor.comVenezuela's Chavez recently bought tanks and missiles from Russia. Several South American countries - including Brazil, Colombia and Chile - are increasing their defense spending in a region that faces no external threats.
Israel bombs Gaza smuggling tunnels | csmonitor.comIsrael launched airstrikes against two smuggling tunnels on the Gaza border Wednesday in response to a rocket fired into Israel. The Israeli aristrike is the latest is several days of cross-border hostilities, breaking a cease-fire that had mostly held since last January.
Afghans on troop surge debate: It's the corruption, stupid. | csmonitor.comAfgan leaders say that any effort that does not address election fraud and corrupt officials will fail.
Obama's Strategic Confusion His move on missile defense raises troubling questions.
Obama feeds allies to bear by Ralph PetersObama's foreign policy embodies a line from "Animal House": "You [screwed] up -- you trusted us!"
Mark Steyn: Obama helping Putin restitch Iron CurtainScrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar.
Iraq's vice president says Iraq should call on US for security help | csmonitor.comIraq should consider calling for more help from US forces in the wake of August's devastating suicide truck bombings in Baghdad, says Vice President Biden.
Facebook nearly as large as U.S. populationFacebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit.
Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World - T.R. ReidIn many ways, foreign health-care models are not really "foreign" to America, because our crazy-quilt health-care system uses elements of all of them.
Pentagon Worries Led to Command ChangeThere was no formal agenda. McKiernan, a silver-haired former armor officer, began with a brief battlefield update. Then Gates and Mullen began asking about reconstruction and counternarcotics operations.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Pakistanis shot at Somali mosqueI find the Pakistani link to Somalia peculiar, though Pakistan does have a history with Somalia.
U.K. chief rebuts claim spies helped tortureBritain's foreign spy chief denied in an interview broadcast Monday that agents tortured terror suspects or that Britain colluded with countries that use torture.
Diplomacy for Visa LustThe currently imposed radical visa strategy is a part of Nazism, which is imposed by so called developed world over the developing country.
Fisher & Phillips LLP - Solutions at Work - Cross-Border BenefitsForeign companies with U.S.
Briton in Iraqi custody after contractor killingsIraqi authorities arrested a British contractor on murder charges over the shooting deaths early Sunday of a British and an Australian contractor in Baghdad's protected Green Zone.
Immigration ExplorerSelect from a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States over the past 130 years, by county map. View by percent of foreign-born in population or number of foreign-born in population.
Portugal taking 2 Syrian Guantanamo detaineesPortugal has agreed to take two Syrian detainees from Guantanamo prison, the foreign ministry said Friday.
U.S. Recruit Reveals How Qaeda Trains ForeignersBryant Neal Vinas, the once-aimless young man who journeyed from Long Island to Pakistan to join Al Qaeda, agreed to carry out a suicide bomb attack last year.
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