Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz on Saturday 21 June:
(1) Oil prices jump after report of Israeli drill for Iran attack
Iranian cleric: Israel to receive ’slap in face’ if it strikes; IAEA chief ElBaradei: I will resign if Iran is attacked.
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“Friday’s spike was not the first caused by tensions between Israel and Iran. Oil prices soared $11 on June [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, Global Economy, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, Israel
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Bloomberg News reported today that “The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global growth this year and said there’s a 25 percent chance of a world recession, citing the worst financial crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression”.
Bloombert said that it found this prediction in “a document obtained by Bloomberg News at a [...]
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Filed under: Global Economy
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“What’s rare is that the spikes are hitting all major foods in most countries at once”., the AP has reported today.
The story says that “In the long term, prices are expected to stabilize. Farmers will grow more grain for both fuel and food and eventually bring prices down. Already this is happening with wheat, with [...]
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Filed under: Global Economy, Human Rights, Millennium Goals
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The spokesperson for the President of this annual General Assembly told journalists at UNHQ/NY on Tuesday that the President is, indeed, disappointed that there was not sufficient high-level attendance at the meeting that opened Tuesday.
The President’s “disappointment”, the spokesperson said, “reflects is the fact that he was expecting them, probably based on assurances, to be [...]
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Filed under: Global Economy, Millennium Goals, UN General Assembly, United Nations, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Reuters is reporting on Wednesday evening that the Bank of Israel is proposing to supply shekels to Gaza.
The story said that “Israel’s central bank has proposed using a state-owned institution to supply funds to Gaza banks after private lenders began severing ties to a territory that Israel labels an enemy entity, officials said on Wednesday. [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Global Economy, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on March 8th, 2007 by Marian Houk
…and the UN goes all-out in its lip-service to the idea of promoting women’s equality, still without being able to practice it, within its own Secretariat.
The “public information” units of every UN body and Agency churn out the press releases. Roundtable discussions are organized in every major UN office, with smiling women and pro-forma [...]
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Filed under: Global Economy, Human Rights, International Tribunals, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment
Posted on January 12th, 2007 by Marian Houk
A slowdown of the world economy is expected in 2007, José Antonio Ocampo, the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said at a press conference at UNHQ/NY on Friday, at the launch of a joint United Nations report, the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2007. The cause he gave for this was the weakening of the United States [...]
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Filed under: Global Economy
