Government Ministers

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rallied to trade at a fresh 4-1/2-year high against the yen on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that holding interest rates too low for too long has its risks and raised the possibility the Fed...

TBILISI (Reuters) - Former Georgian prime minister Ivane Merabishvili was arrested on corruption charges on Tuesday in what the opposition said was a witch-hunt against members of the ousted administration of President Mikheil Saakashvili. Ex-...

By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has added four Syrian government ministers to a U.S. terror blacklist as well as the leader of an al-Qaida-linked organization fighting President Bashar Assad's (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) regime. Thursday's...

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday blacklisted four Syrian government ministers, an airline and a television station it said helped the Assad government in its two-year crackdown on opposition forces. The move follows broad U....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday blacklisted four Syrian government ministers, an airline and a television station it said helped the Assad government in its two-year crackdown on opposition forces. The same day, the State...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Three people were killed when the ceiling of a warehouse fell in at a shoe factory in Cambodia, a government minister said on Thursday, adding to concern about safety standards at Asian factories producing clothes cheaply for...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's foreign minister has resigned, the government said on Wednesday, days after he was criticized for contributing to a diplomatic spat with Venezuela. Rafael Roncagliolo, 68, resigned "strictly because of health reasons," the...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A senior Egyptian Finance Ministry adviser involved in talks on a vital IMF loan has resigned, suggesting that newly appointed bureaucrats loyal to President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood had meddled in his work. Sami Khallaf's...

JERUSALEM -- Embarrassing disclosures about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s household spending habits are stoking public anger as Israelis brace for new government-approved austerity measures, including tax hikes and reduced social benefits. A...

ATHENS, May 12 (Reuters) - Greece has threatened high school teachers with arrest if they go ahead with a nationwide strike that would disrupt university entrance exams that start this week, the official government gazette said. It is the third time this...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's economy minister said he did not believe additional tax hikes and spending cuts would be necessary in 2013, outlining the new government's plans for addressing a prolonged recession in the euro zone's third-largest economy. Asked...