- Brilliant read! Statement of the Government of the Republic of Ecuador on the asylum request of Julian Assange
- In UK threat to Ecuador, experts see mistake--"It was a warning meant to remind Ecuador that Britain's patience has limits. But as the stalemate over Julian Assange settled, it appeared London's veiled threat that it could storm Ecuador's embassy and drag Assange out has backfired — drawing supporters to the mission where the WikiLeaks founder is holed up and prompting angry denunciations from Ecuador and elsewhere."
- US intends to chase Assange, cables show
- Global Food Reserves Falling As Drought Wilts Crops
- Potential grows for food crisis as prices surge-UN
- Attempts to avoid food crisis may worsen problem
- Millions more will go hungry as world struggles to respond to unprecedented food crises and sharply rising prices
- Commerzbank stops speculating on basic food prices--"Germany's second-biggest lender, Commerzbank, says it will no longer participate in market speculation on basic food prices. The bank says it has removed all agricultural products from its funds for moral reasons."
- For the first time since 1998 more money leaves China than enters it
- Even China Is Running Out of Money Now
- China's ghost towns and phantom malls
- Superpower Denied? Why China's 'Rise' May Have Already Peaked
- You'll Never Be Chinese: Why I’m leaving the country I loved
- IMF Says Bailouts Iceland-Style Hold Lessons in Crisis Times--"Iceland’s commitment to... a decision to push losses on to bondholders instead of taxpayers and the safeguarding of a welfare system that shielded the unemployed from penury helped propel the nation from collapse toward recovery,"
- How Finland keeps its head above eurozone crisis
- Canada: Harper rejects calls to bail out eurozone
- Germany and IMF to Refuse Greece Further Financial Aid, Reports Say--Greece has avoided a default... for now.
- German opposition leader talks tough on tax evasion
- More Abandoned Children as Europe Austerity Wears On
- Desperation in Spain: One Mayor's Hunger Strike against Austerity
- Eddie Izzard: 'Mo Farah is proof of great multicultural Britain'
- EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief
- Europe Needs a Multiethnic Miracle--"Why Jewish Poles, black Germans, and headscarf-wearing Italians are the continent's best hope."
- MEP of antisemitic Hungarian party discovers he is Jewish
- Neo-Nazi flash mobs strike German cities, aim to become 'immortal' on YouTube
- Chess master Garry Kasparov arrested outside Pussy Riot trial
- South Africa shocked by police shootings at mine--What's behind the Marikana Massacre?
- 'We Are Prepared to Die': Workers in Colombia at General Motors Plant Sew Their Mouths Shut to Protest Backbreaking Labor Conditions
