“Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened Friday to seize all Western-owned investments in the country unless their governments remove targeted sanctions imposed on him and his senior ZANU-PF party members. The 86-year-old former guerrilla leader spoke at his party conference in Murare. ‘This conference must come with a real program, a solid program of how we [...]
“The U.S. government’s main code-making and code-cracking agency now works on the assumption that foes may have pierced even the most sensitive national security computer networks under its guard. ‘There’s no such thing as ‘secure’ any more,’ Debora Plunkett of the National Security Agency said on Thursday amid U.S. anger and embarrassment over disclosure of [...]
“Competition between India and China as they seek bigger shares of the world’s dwindling supply of oil is likely to accelerate the rise in oil prices, economists say. It also has the potential to ignite lingering tension between the two countries going back to China’s 1962 invasion of India and exacerbated by hundreds of border [...]
“Moody’s has downgraded debt-stricken Ireland by five notches just days after the Irish parliament approved a multi-billion euro international bailout. The credit ratings agency cited increased uncertainties over Ireland’s economy and public finances for cutting its foreign and local-currency government bond ratings from Aa2 to Baa1. The action follows similar but less drastic downgrades by [...]
“U.S. officials say they have no specific and credible information about planned terror attacks on the United States, but they have issued an intelligence bulletin to state and local law enforcement warning terrorists could target large crowds at holiday gatherings. The Department of Homeland Security and FBI issued an intelligence bulletin Wednesday to encourage law [...]