Bernanke points to reduced Fed bond buying this year
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank expects to slow the pace of its bond purchases later this year and bring them to a halt around mid-2014, comments that weighed on stocks and pushed bond yields to a 15-month high. Full Article
Switzerland buries U.S. tax law, banks seen at risk
BERNE - Swiss lawmakers dealt a death blow on Wednesday to a draft law which aimed to protect the country's banks from criminal charges in the United States for helping wealthy Americans evade tax.
Afghanistan to shun U.S. talks with Taliban
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his government would not join U.S. peace talks with the Taliban until they were led by Afghans and would suspend negotiations with the United States on a troop pact. Full Article | Video
Tea Party rallies as FBI says probe a top priority
WASHINGTON - More than a dozen FBI agents are assigned to a criminal probe into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative political groups, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. Full Article
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Syria's Islamists seize control, moderates dither
ALEPPO, Syria - During a 10-day journey through rebel-held territory in Syria, Reuters found that radical Islamist units are sidelining more moderate groups that do not share the Islamists’ goal of establishing a supreme religious leadership in the country. Full Article
Protests proceed as smaller cities join the fray
SAO PAULO/FORTALEZA - Protesters blocked roads in Sao Paulo and marched toward a stadium hosting a major international soccer game in a growing wave of nationwide demonstrations against poor public services, inflation and other woes in the country. Full Article
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Colombia peace hinges on drug corridors
As the Colombian government and FARC hold ongoing peace talks in Havana to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency, it will be in rebel fiefdoms like Cauca where peace will be hardest to build and hardest won. Full Article
Putin basks in isolation over Syria
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland/MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin scowled, lectured and fidgeted while resisting the forced bonhomie of the two-day G8 summit with the leaders of world's richest nations and relishing his isolation. Full Article
NSA head, lawmakers defend spying programs
WASHINGTON - The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as members of Congress also defended the use of the top-secret spying operations. Full Article
Breakingviews: Sprint to the finish line
June 19 - Breakingviews columnists say SoftBank and Sprint may seem closer to a deal since Dish abandoned its bid, but the satellite TV provider’s interest in Clearwire could still stir trouble.
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Meredith Whitney on America’s future
Forget the coasts. Meredith Whitney, author of the new book “Fate of the States," tells Breakingviews' Rob Cox that America’s interior states are the future growth engines of the U.S. economy. Video
Rohani: A survivor in the snakepit of Tehran
Rohani is the Beria of the Islamic Republic: He knows how to negotiate the pit of vipers that is Iranian politics. Commentary
David Cameron takes on the tax havens
There is nothing more likely to spark anger than an unfair tax regime. That puts Britain's prime minister David Cameron, who like most conservatives believes in low taxes, in a bind. Commentary
Trusting in our new security state
To adapt to our new surveillance status quo we have to trust the state, the government, the politicians, the businesses, the bureaucracies, the police, the security forces, the journalists and, yes, ourselves. Commentary
The price of ignoring climate change
Climate change endangers much of the world economy. Economists calculate that a 3.5-degree Fahrenheit rise in global temperature would reduce global gross domestic product by 1 percent. Commentary
Rate rigging costs more than money
In cash terms, the manipulation of supposedly objective reference rates and prices is a petty crime: relatively small gains for a few and microscopic losses for many. Ethically, though, the tolerance of untrustworthy behaviour makes the industry look particularly bad. Full Article
Snowden versus the dragons
One measure of our culture's disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus. Commentary
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