GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations scientific agency backed on Friday a proposal to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, saying the ...
Negotiations between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebel groups must be completed within two months, ahead of Sudan's presidential and legislative elections, a ...
Martinez Sanchez beats Oudin to give Spain a 1-0 lead over Americans at Hopman Cup Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beat Melanie Oudin of the United States 6-4, 6-4 Sunday to give Spain a 1-0 lead at the Hopman Cup mixed teams tennis ...
French world number 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has pulled out of the season-opening ATP event in Doha starting Monday with a wrist injury, organisers said Friday. "I am really disappointed not to be able to participate in this tournament owing to a wrist ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. plans to negotiate a free trade pact in the Asia Pacific region pose no threat to the successful conclusion of longrunning world trade talks, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday. "We actually think it might help ...
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The United States supports taking "early action" to liberalize trade in products that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and believes that could spur progress in broader world trade talks on environmental goods and services, a U.S. trade official said on Wednesday. ...
The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on Wednesday called for the alignment of gas prices with oil prices at the opening of a forum of gas exporting countries. "The increase experienced by the oil price this year has not ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Impatience with the glacial pace of global free trade negotiations prompted calls this week for the Doha round to be smashed into smaller and more digestible mini-deals that could be agreed quickly. At a World Trade Organization meeting in ...
Ministers failed Wednesday to end a stalemate on reaching a global trade pact, with the WTO chief warning that a breakthrough was needed by March to meet a 2010 deadline set by world leaders. Some developing nations produced a deal to reduce ...
Ministers failed Wednesday to end a stalemate on measures to reach a global trade liberalisation pact ahead of a 2010 deadline, with some developing countries moving to seal their own tariff-slashing deal. A group of 22 developing nations produced a deal to ...
The United States came in for criticism Wednesday from trade and diplomatic officials after extensive ministerial talks failed to break an impasse on framing a global tariff-busting pact. Whether it is trade in commodities such as cotton or bananas or manufactured goods ...
Trade ministers were set to wrap up three days of WTO talks Wednesday with no compromise in sight for ending an eight-year stalemate on framing a trade liberalisation accord ahead of a 2010 deadline. Parties appeared unwilling to budge on the level ...
