LONDON, July 25, 2006 (AFP) – British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett called Tuesday for Syria and Iran to stop supporting the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon as a key part of efforts to end the current conflict.
"We call on Syria and Iran to stop their support for Hezbollah and end their interference in Lebanon’s internal affairs," in line with UN resolutions, Beckett said during questions in the House of Commons.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 20, 2006 (AFP) – Internet giant Google reported Thursday its second-quarter earnings more than doubled as online advertising revenues rocketed.
The Internet search leader said its net profit for the April-June period came to 721 million dollars, compared to 343 million dollars in the same quarter of 2005.
NEW YORK, July 21, 2006 (AFP) – US shares swung lower Friday as investors remained cautious about Middle East violence and technology shares were pressured by a warning of lower earnings from computer giant Dell.
NEW YORK, July 21, 2006 (AFP) – Wall Street shares ended lower Friday, weighed down by a profit warning from computer giant Dell and amid ongoing concerns on violence in the Middle East.
NEW YORK, July 21, 2006 (AFP) – Wall Street shares ended lower Friday, weighed down by a profit warning from computer giant Dell and amid ongoing concerns about the violence in the Middle East.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2006 (AFP) – South Korea’s top online video game website announced plans on Monday to become a player in the US market this year.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2006 (AFP) – Computer hackers built a fake Google Tool Bar website to trick people into downloading a malicious program that could turn machines into "zombies," a US Internet security firm said on Friday.
VOA, Jully 19 – The U.S. Secretary of Energy says it may take about six months to restore Iraq’s oil output to pre-war levels of 2.5 million barrels a day.
Middle East Times, July 19 – The US commerce secretary and his Iraqi counterpart signed an agreement on Monday to enhance commercial relations and improve Iraq’s investment climate as the massive American reconstruction program draws to an end.
Dar Al-Hayat, July 18 – Only a tiny handful of the members of Ambassador Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority knew anything very much about the modern history of Iraq and fewer still anything about its twentieth century social and economic development. This had the apparent advantage of allowing them to treat the whole country as a blank sheet on which to impose their own highly ideological projects. But wiser counsels now prevail and many of the same persons have come to regret both their own ignorance and the absence of any real historical bench-marks by which to tell how well, or how badly, the American-led Iraqi reconstruction project is doing compared with the country’s past economic performance.
