Monthly Archives: January 2012

‘We are concluding the year with greater levels of unity and cohesion in our ranks, which will help us confront the daunting challenges of 2012’, the COSATU union federation said in its end of year message. It added: ‘This year was most disappointing when it comes to hardcore economic issues. ‘We...

German Chancellor Merkel, in her sombre New Year message yesterday, warned 2012 will be worse than 2011. Merkel said Europe was experiencing its ‘most severe test in decades’. Meanwhile, French President Sarkozy said the crisis was not finished, and Italy’s President Napolitano called for more sacrifices. With the country’s EU-imposed prime...

US President Barack Obama has just signed into law a major defence bill which includes tough new sanctions against Iran, as well as allowing the US military to detain indefinitely ‘terror suspects’ accused of planning attacks on the US. Obama stated that he had concerns about parts of the...