
PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and Japan are leading a fragile economic recovery among developed countries that could yet be blown off course if the euro zone fails to contain the damage from its problem debtor states, the OECD said on Tuesday. In its twice-yearly economic outlook, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development forecast that global growth would ease to 3.4 percent this year from 3.6 percent in 2011, before accelerating to 4.2 percent in 2013, in line with its last estimates from late November. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:40:21Z
Greece's caretaker prime minister will convene a meeting of Cabinet members ahead of this week's summit of European Union leaders that's expected to look into spurring economic growth across the continent. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:22:04Z
The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a "severe recession," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday, as it called on governments and Europe's central bank to act quickly to keep the slowdown from dragging down the global economy. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:24:36Z
German officials say they've taken security measures at a popular German magazine and for members of a small far-right party after a known terrorist called for them to be attacked in a video online. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:08:34Z
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced five policemen to 10 years each in prison on Tuesday for their role in killing protesters in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the first such conviction against the force that was blamed for hundreds of deaths. Two more policemen were sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence, while 10 others were acquitted, one of the judges involved in the case before the court in the Cairo district of Giza, Mohamed Darwish, said. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:41:02Z
DAKAR (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has promoted his farms and forestry minister son, who is wanted in France for alleged money laundering, to deputy prime minister, a government statement said on Tuesday. The promotion was part of a cabinet reshuffle and reform of the constitution which critics of the oil-rich Central African state believe is aimed at ensuring a future handover of power to Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, widely known as "Teodorin". The reform notably creates a vice-president position which Teodorin is tipped to fill in the future. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:17:08Z
Opening a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX on Tuesday became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:36:43Z
A bomb that apparently targeted a restaurant in the Syrian capital killed at least five people, the state-run news agency said Tuesday, as activists reported intense clashes between army defectors and soldiers in the restive north. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:18:57Z
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