Washington (dpa) – The World Bank announced Friday it would consider three candidates from the United States, Colombia and Nigeria to lead the international development lender.
The bank's board of directors said they would consider Jim Yong Kim (...)
Washington (dpa) – The US State Department on Monday confirmed the killing of US citizen Joel Wesley Shrum in Yemen.
He was shot dead on Sunday by two assailants in southern Yemen, according to reports from the country. Shrum was driving to a (...)
WASHINGTON (dpa) – The US Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee left interest rates unchanged Following a Tuesday meeting in Washington.
The rate-setting central bank has kept its key federal funds rate at zero to 0.25 per cent since December (...)
Washington (dpa) – Congress voted Friday to extend to the end of 2012 a reduction in the payroll tax, paid by nearly all US workers into the public pension system.
President Barack Obama said he would sign the measure, which also extends jobless (...)
Washington (dpa) – Passing a major reform of the US health insurance system was President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement, the culmination of decades of efforts by center-left Democrats to change the system.
But the measure has (...)
Sana'a (dpa) – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived in the United States for medical treatment, the US government and the Yemeni embassy in Washington confirmed late Saturday.
State Department spokesman Noel Clay told broadcaster CNN that (...)