President Barack Obama attempted on Thursday to inject fresh momentum into efforts to pass gun-control legislation, pleading with U.S. lawmakers not to forget those shot to death in Newtown, Connecticut three months ago. Amid signs that he may have to accept a scaled-down version of gun legislation, Obama sounded a note of frustration in calling
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– Lindt, Riegelein fighting case since 2000 – EU court already ruled against Lindt last year – Lindt determined to defend gold-wrapped bunnies Swiss premium chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli has lost a court battle to protect its gold foil-wrapped Easter bunnies from imitation by a German rival. Lindt, which traces its origins to a
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. By Dr Olga Kandinskaia, CIIM Business School It has been a truly sad experience for me to watch the dramatic series of events unfolding in the last ten days here in Cyprus. Being Russian and having lived through a number of crises in Russia before I moved to Cyprus eleven years ago, I thought
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. By Jim Leontiades Cyprus International Institute of Management Henry Kissinger once asked : “Who do I call if I want to call Europe”. Today he would find a ready answer, forget the EU and the European Parliament, call Berlin and more specifically Mrs. Merkel and Dr. Schauble. The focus in Cyprus these past few
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. By Fiona Mullen, Director of Sapienta Economics As I write this I do not know when the banks will open again. And from the rapidly changing policies of the past 48 hours it is clear that there is a big debate going on about capital controls and how to handle them. Here I shall
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Twelve Syrian students were killed on Thursday when rebel mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University's College of Architecture, two pro-government television channels said. Al-Ikhbariya showed images of doctors pumping the chests of at least two young men and blood splattered on the floor of what appeared to be an outdoor canteen. One
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European shares rebounded and the euro edged off a four-month low on Thursday after banks in Cyprus reopened to relative calm following the island's hard-won bailout. There was no sign of the mass panic that Cypriots and investors had feared might be triggered when banks reopened after a forced closure of almost two weeks, albeit
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Oscar Pistorius, charged with murdering his girlfriend, was granted permission to travel abroad by a South African judge on Thursday. "The applicant is entitled to use his passport to travel outside the Republic of South Africa," Judge Bert Bam said. The 26-year-old Olympic and Paralympic track star, a double amputee since infancy, also no longer
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. By Fiona Mullen Director, Sapienta Economics If we fall out of the euro, the Argentina crisis suggests that the new currency will fall by 75%. That means that our personal and state debts will quadruple overnight, the value of our savings will fall to a quarter of what they were, and the price of
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. A lot has been said about the persona of some of the key figures of the Troika who have “pillaged” our economy and desecrated our sovereignty, but few have had the courage to say that “we had it coming.” It’s been a glorious two weeks of every politician with a chip on his shoulder
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