Posts Tagged ‘institution’

AP – German prosecutors said Friday they have dropped an investigation of a Russian businessman who had been suspected of transporting a radioactive substance used in the fatal poisoning of a former Russian agent in London in 2006.

AP – A suicide bomber in a pickup truck attacked the northwestern regional headquarters of the Pakistani spy agency overseeing a campaign against militancy, killing 10 people Friday. Another suicide assault in the area killed six more.

AP – Iran’s closest allies in the Middle East are seizing on a deadlock in U.S.-backed peace efforts to try to sway a frustrated Arab world to their side.

AP – In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay detainees.

AP – A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan’s main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much of the country’s anti-terror campaign.

Time.com – Last year, Irish voters sent shock waves through the European Union by rejecting a critical referendum on reforming the institution. With another vote coming up, Ireland’s reeling economy may be causing a change of heart

AP – Defending a costly plan to revitalize the economy, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said the government’s sweeping stimulus effort “is in fact working” despite steady Republican criticism and public skepticism.