A gaggle of foreign ministers and heads of the international community are convening here today to discuss the future of Libya, most importantly how to pave the way for Moammar Gadhafi’s exit. The meeting this afternoon will include more than 40 foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban [...]
Italy’s interior minister says investigators believe anarchists may have been behind the package bombs that exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies. The ANSA news agency quoted Minister Roberto Maroni as saying the bombings Thursday, which injured the two people who opened the packages, were similar to the mail bombs sent to 14 embassies in [...]
LONDON—The cost of insuring Greek sovereign debt against default fell Monday after French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the European Union would support Greece if required to do so. Greece’s five-year sovereign credit-default-swap spreads, or CDS, fell to 2.83 percentage points from Friday’s closing level of 3.01 percentage points, according to CMA DataVision. It is the [...]
The French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been warned by friends to give up a ‘severe’ diet and rigorous exercise after his collapse while jogging raised questions about his wife’s influence on his fitness regime. Mr Sarkozy, 54, left the Val-de-Grace military hospital in Paris on Monday after being kept in overnight under cardiological observation, a [...]