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As a citizen, a father and a physicist, climate change tops my list of worries. As chief executive of the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the country's largest energy companies, I'm also finding it to be a...
President Obama's trip to China yielded precious little Chinese cooperation on the Administration's key concerns, ranging from currency issues to Iran. "I underlined to President Obama that given our differences in national...
Earnings are higher, the retailer is making acquisitions, and an IPO is expected early next year When a trio of private equity buyers snapped up Toys "R" Us in 2005, many predicted the retailer wouldn't survive. Instead, Toys...
Iran's largest refinery will start issuing bonds on Sunday worth a total of 2.5 trillion rials (about $250 million) to help finance expansion of gasoline production, state broadcaster IRIB reported on Saturday. Iran is the...
Americans Seek Up to 7,000 Extra NATO Troops for Ramp-Up in Afghanistan By PETER SPIEGEL and STEPHEN FIDLER WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is in advanced talks with its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for a...
As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
Prospects for reaching a deal in the eight-year old Doha Round of global trade negotiations were remote; now, they’re truly distant. On Nov. 30, trade ministers of the 153-nation World Trade Organization (WTO) hold their...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday his administration would strive to increase American exports to Asia-Pacific countries to create jobs back home. "If we can increase our exports to...
The warning came as the latest evidence on the supply of credit to the British economy showed little sign of radical improvements. The Bank of England's Trends In Lending Report confirmed that British consumers were still...
MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation,...
