Posts Tagged ‘crisis’

Quote Roundup: World Leaders Discuss Ongoing Libyan Crisis
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged African states to drop their support of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi this week as new fronts open in western Libya. Despite a lengthy standoff along the eastern front, rebels have reportedly advanced outside of Misrata toward Zlitan on the road to Tripoli, gained new towns in the mountains, and uprisings have been reported in Sabha, Ghadames …

A huge party that led to a massive hangover. That is how many people describe what happened to the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the time they joined the European Union to the global economic crisis. Read more about how the Baltics defied predictions that they would have to devalue their currencies at blog-imfdirect.imf.org

Estonia’s euro joy dampened by EU debt crisis
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – Despite a hellish year for the euro, the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia will be joining the single currency club as the champagne corks pop at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

West African bloc threatens force in Ivorian crisis
West African heads of state threatened on Friday to use force to oust incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo unless he cedes power to a rival widely credited with having won a presidential election.

EU team in Naples for garbage crisis as health risks rise
(ROME ) – The EU sent a team of inspectors to garbage-strewn Naples on Monday to assess whether Italy remains in breach of European legislation regarding waste disposal management.

UN warns prolonged global jobs crisis could spawn global unrest
Fairness must be the compass guiding us out of the crisis, says official, as workers and unemployed protest across Europe The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned of growing social unrest because it fears global employment will not recover until 2015. This is two years later than its earlier estimate that the labour market would rebound to pre-crisis levels by 2013. About 22 …

Bulgaria’s Population Crisis Worsens Despite Rising Birth Rate
Bulgaria was the country with the highest death rate of all 27 EU member states in 2009 – 14.2 per 1000 inhabitants. The average EU 27 death rate in 2009 was 9.7 per 1000 (a total of 4.8 million deaths).

Rape crisis centre issues tips to reduce risk of assault
A RAPE crisis charity has issued a set of tips which they hope can help prevent the upsurge of sexual assaults linked to better weather and outdoor events.

Kiwis stranded by volcano ash crisis
A giant ash cloud over Europe causing havoc around the world has Kiwi exporters and travellers among those waiting in limbo.

Europe’s air travel crisis enters fourth day
Air travel across much of Europe was paralyzed for a fourth day on Sunday because of a huge cloud of volcanic ash, but Dutch and German test flights carried out without apparent damage seemed to offer hope.