The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan delivers a strategic review of the war in which he says the situation in the country is serious and that a new plan is needed to defeat the Taliban.
Friedrich Engels wasn’t born a revolutionary, but over the course of several beer-soaked days in Paris, he became part of “the greatest friendship in Western political thought.”
The Swedish furniture chain said it never expected such a backlash after switching typeface in its latest catalog.
Voters in Japan threw out the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for only the second time since the conservative party was formed, shortly after World War II. NPR’s Louisa Lim talks to Guy Raz.
Reuters – For corporate America and Wall Street, the second quarter may be a tough act to follow.
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U.S. second-quarter earnings tough to beat
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is quietly revolutionizing U.S. foreign policy. That was the thrust of a recent editorial in the Washington Post . Clinton’s top advisors say they don’t object to that characterization.
After more than a half-century in power, Japan’s ruling party has been ousted by the voters. Japanese media is reporting that the opposition Democratic party of Japan has scored a landslide victory will take control from the LDP — the party that has been ruling almost uninterrupted for the past 53 years. Host Liane Hansen talks to NPR’s Louisa Lim about the latest reaction.
Reuters – The roughly 370,000 employees of Volkswagen and Porsche are striving initially to acquire a stake of up to 5 percent in the automotive group, VW’s labor chief told a German newspaper.
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Reuters – China Investment Corp is investing as much overseas each month this year as it did in all of 2008, Lou Jiwei, the chairman of the $298 billion sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday.
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China’s CIC wealth fund muscles up as markets recover
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Mahmood Shivji, a professor of conservation biology at Nova Southeastern University and director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute, analyzed the DNA of more than 150 fish served at restaurants, and found many of them secretly substituted a cheaper fish for one advertised on the menu. Shivji says he finds that the “restaurant fish CSI work” makes for a good teaching tool.
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