The new coalition government of Greece, elected a scant three months ago on a pro-Euro, pro bail-out platform, finds itself between a rock and a hard place as 50,000 protesters took to the streets in Athens demonstrating against austerity measures they say are bringing the Greek population to its knees.
President Obama spoke before the United Nations General Assembly this morning in New York. He began and ended his speech speaking of Chris Stevens, Ambassador to Libya, who was killed in the recent violence at the embassy in that country.
TSURUGA, JAPAN — There has been an ongoing debate in Japan on the best way to obtain a safe and affordable energy supply for the island nation. The nuclear option suffered a setback in March, 2011, when a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami caused a meltdown in reactors at Japan's main Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.
BEIJING — Japan’s deputy foreign minister is in Beijing for consultations with China about a group of hotly contested islands in the East China Sea known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku by the Japanese.