News

BEIJING: China and the United States share a responsibility for boosting global market confidence, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping told visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in talks Thursday that focused on shoring up trust between the two big powers. Xi (pronounced “Shee”), expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president from early 2013, will inherit responsibility for his nation’s vast, …

Following are profiles of Lebanese reportedly mentioned in the indictment by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. An STL delegation met with Lebanon’s state prosecutor Thursday, reportedly handing him a copy of the Lebanon portion of the indictment which includes four names. Mustafa Badreddine Mustafa Badreddine, the brother in-law of assassinated Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, is the prime suspect in the …

BEIJING  – Google has become a “political tool” vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. Internet giant’s statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business. The tough warning appeared in the overseas edition of the People’s Daily, the leading newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, indicating that political tensions …