2015-02-24

Real Economy

EU's 315 billion investment plan scrutinised

Critics say a pledge to pay for new infrastructure projects and to help small businesses won't work.

24/02/2015

Greece

Greece delivers economic reform plans as part of bailout extension

Greece has sent a list of economic reform plans to the International Monetary Fund and European institutions, according to Reuters, citing a source

24/02/2015

Business Series

Business Middle East:FED sways, the market prays

The Fed's decision to row back on a rate hike unsettled vulnerable Middle East markets already hit by low crude oil prices

24/02/2015

Indonesia

Indonesia rejects appeals for mercy for Australian death row inmates

Two Australian men due to be executed in Indonesia have had their appeals for clemency rejected by a Jakarta judge. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran

24/02/2015

USA

PLO ordered to pay for US victims of Jerusalem attacks

A US court has ordered the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority to pay out more than 200 million dollars for their role in

24/02/2015

Brazil

Rio slum dwellers protest over police violence

Residents of one of Brazil’s most dangerous slums launched a street protest on Monday against a recent increase in violence. They say that at least

24/02/2015

Mexico

Hundreds join Mexican orange throwing festival

Orange throwing is all the rage in a small central Mexican town at this time of the year. Locals in Alfajaycuan marked the beginning of the sowing

24/02/2015

Cuba

Cuban cigar firm eyes 30 percent of US market

Organisers of a week-long Cigar festival in Cuba are hoping for a large increase in buyers from the US, thanks to a softening of trade sanctions

24/02/2015

Economy

Greece set to send reforms to euro zone

Greece will deliver its latest economic reform plans to eurozone officials on Tuesday morning, after delaying their release by a day. The new

24/02/2015

Ukraine

Ukrainian troops say heavy weapons withdrawal would be 'a mistake'

Ukrainian soldiers offered a gun salute to four of their own war dead on Monday. The men were killed by landmines a few days earlier in Debaltseve

24/02/2015

Russia

War with Ukraine "unlikely" - Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin says a full war with Ukraine is “unlikely”. In an interview on Monday to mark a public holiday honouring Russia’s

24/02/2015

Hungary

Hungarian town Veszprém shake-ups politics for the Prime Minister in by-election

24/02/2015