ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Italian coffee maker IllyCaffe SpA is making a move on Starbucks. Illy is a closely held company based in Trieste, Italy, that makes really delicious coffee. We love it hot or iced. Now Illy is expanding its reach and negotiating deals to be the only coffee served at selected cafes. For the shops, aligning with a premium brand is a way to differentiate themselves from chains and other independent...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
BHUBANESWAR: Director of National Institute of Science, Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, T.K. Chandrasekhar has been formally inducted as fellow of TWAS, an autonomous international organisation based in Trieste, Italy that ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
HYDERABAD: Ch. Mohan Rao, Deputy Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), has been elected as a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy. The academy is an international organisation with ...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
"Israel is being iced out of the negotiating process. If Israel does not capitulate to dividing Jerusalem and to retreating to indefensible borders," Ken M wrote, "Look for Obama and the Quartet to recognize the Palestinian State, and Israel will become an international pariah state. President Obama used the forum of the United Nations to abandon Israel and embrace the unfounded demands...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
TRIESTE, Italy (Kyodo) Japan vigorously pushed to have North Korea's recent belligerence discussed at this year's meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Eight nations. But amid concerns over the violent crackdown on protesters over a disputed presidential election, Iran stole the spotlight, even from Afghanistan, which host Italy had sought to highlight. Read the full story
Mallica Vajrathon (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
At Trieste, Italy, the High-level representatives of the Russian Federation, the European Union, the United States and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, known as the “Quartet”, issued a common statement on Middle-east peace at the end of their meeting on 26 June. This Statement covers the calling on Israel and the Palestinians to implement [...]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
TRIESTE, Italy, June 27 (UPI) -- The United States will shift its policies in Afghanistan away from poppy eradication to legal crop development, a top U.S. envoy said Saturday. Speaking at an international conference in Trieste, Italy, Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, confirmed the United States would stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ineffective efforts...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
TRIESTE, Italy — The United States has announced a new drug policy for opium-rich Afghanistan, saying it was phasing out funding for eradication programs while significantly increasing its funding for alternate crop and drug interdiction efforts. The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, told The Associated Press on Saturday that eradication programs weren't working and were only driving...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
TRIESTE, Italy (Reuters) - Washington is to dramatically overhaul its Afghan anti-drug strategy, phasing out opium poppy eradication, the U.S. envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan told allies on Saturday.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Trieste, Italy - Afghanistan needs farms which produce something other than opium, free elections and the chance to trade with its neighbours and the rest of the world, the foreign ministers of the world's eight leading industrialized economies said ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Trieste, Italy - The United States is to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in funding away from efforts to destroy opium poppies in Afghanistan towards policies encouraging farmers to grow other crops, G8 officials said Saturday. US special envoy...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:48 a.m. ET TRIESTE, Italy (AP) -- The U.S. has announced a new drug policy for opium-rich Afghanistan, saying it was phasing out funding for eradication efforts and using the money for drug interdiction and alternate crop programs instead. The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, told The Associated Press on Saturday that eradication programs weren't working...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Trieste, Italy - The foreign ministers of the world's eight leading industrialized nations praised Pakistan's domestic war against Taliban-linked militants at a summit in the Italian city of Trieste on Saturday. The G8 supports Pakistan's decisive a...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
TRIESTE, Italy -- The U.S. has announced a new drug policy for opium-rich Afghanistan, saying it was phasing out funding for eradication efforts and using it for drug interdiction and alternate crop programs instead.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
TRIESTE, Italy, June 26 (UPI) -- The group negotiating peace in the Middle East, meeting in Italy, reaffirmed its desire to see the Arab-Israeli conflict resolved with a two-state agreement. The Middle East Quartet -- representatives of the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States -- met in Trieste Friday during the Group of Eight ministers meeting. The diplomats said the solution...
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