http://www.thenationalherald.com/ The articles in this RSS feed are comming from the home page of thenationalherald.com. Thu, 17 May 2012 06:48:49 EST en-us http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55118 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55118 Thu, 17 May 2012 06:48:49 EST By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt and Peter Spiegel in Brussels LONDON. (Financial Times). The European Central Bank has reacted to uncertainty over Greece?s future in the eurozone by excluding four of the country?s banks from its regular liquidity providing operations. The move raises the pressure on Greece to stick to its international bailout by highlighting the risk that eurozone central bankers could pull the http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55117 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55117 Thu, 17 May 2012 06:32:04 EST JIM FITZGERALD,Associated Press BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) ? Mary Richardson Kennedy's life had both highlights and troubled moments, just like other members of the famous political family she married into in 1994. She was an architect who struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, and was the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. The 52-year-old mother of four was found dead http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55116 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55116 Thu, 17 May 2012 06:12:47 EST LONDON ? The world's four largest economies all grew in the first quarter of this year. But that doesn't mean the global economy is immune to a Greek meltdown. On the contrary, economic expansion in the U.S., China, Germany and Japan looks decidedly fragile and highly vulnerable if Greece exits the euro zone. Of course, Germany is the most obvious casualty, as it and other euro zone economies would suffer http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55115 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55115 Thu, 17 May 2012 06:04:13 EST By NICHOLAS GAGE NEW YORK. (New York Times). Throughout their history, Greeks in times of crisis have rushed to embrace charismatic demagogues like lemmings throwing themselves into the sea. After the death of Pericles during the Peloponnesian War, Athenians allowed his seductive nephew, Alcibiades, then 35, to talk them into wasting most of their remaining military resources on a disastrous expedition in http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55114 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55114 Thu, 17 May 2012 05:58:30 EST ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Greece's caretaker Cabinet was sworn in Thursday and will lead the country into next month's election, after a deadlocked vote sparked more political turmoil and brought the country's use of the euro currency into question. The 16-member Cabinet was sworn in during a ceremony in the presidential mansion in Athens, followed by the swearing in of Parliament's 300 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55113 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55113 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:07:12 EST ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Panathinaikos is on course for a Champions League qualifying spot after beating Atromitos 1-0 in the Greek league playoffs on Wednesday from Sotiris Ninis' second-half goal. Ninis scored in the 65th minute to put Panathinaikos on 11 points with one round remaining. AEK Athens has nine points after beating nine-man PAOK 2-0 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55112 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55112 Wed, 16 May 2012 16:57:36 EST NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ? An early goal by Brazilian striker Andre Alves clinched the Cypriot Cup final for Omonia Nicosia, which won 1-0 against league champion AEL Limassol. Alves scored after latching on to a pass from Yuval Spungin in the 17th minute. AEL, which surprised many this season by securing its first league title since 1968, was reduc http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55111 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55111 Wed, 16 May 2012 11:49:04 EST PRAGUE (AP) ? The head of a major European Jewish group says his organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and the threat of a growing far right. Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, was meeting with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas on Wednesday to seek his support for 'emergency measures' to protect European Jewish communities from violent hate crimes. http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55110 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55110 Wed, 16 May 2012 10:08:23 EST ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkey is showing renewed interest in reviving its stalled bid to join the European Union, now that one of its key opponents is no longer the president of France. Turkey began its EU accession negotiations in 2005 but made little progress in its candidacy, thanks to a dispute with EU-member Cyprus and opposition from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Turkey's membership. Sarkozy argued that the predominantly Muslim country is not a part of Europe and wanted Turkey to accept some kind of a special partnership with the EU instead of full membership ? an offer Turkey rejected. http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55109 http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/55109 Wed, 16 May 2012 10:05:13 EST UN Secretary General`s Special Adviser on Cyprus Alexander Downer has said that the issue of holding a multilateral conference on the Cyprus problem during the summer is still on the table. In statements after being received by Cyprus President Demetris Christofias, Downer said that a multilateral conference ``is part of the process, is part of