Premier Wen Jiabao, the country’s top economic official,
said Wednesday growth appeared to be stabilizing and he
expressed confidence the country can meet its official
targets for the year. Wen gave no growth forecast or a
possible time frame for a recovery.
“Economic growth is stabilizing and we are confident through
our efforts we can achieve the full-year targets for economic
and social development,” the premier said in a Cabinet
statement.
Federal authorities have arrested a man they say was plotting
to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City,
just blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Authorities say 21-year-old Quazi Nafis was arrested
Authorities say 21-year-old Quazi Nafis was arrested
Wednesday morning after a sting operation that involved the
FBI and New York Police Department. The suspect parked a van
filled with what he believed were explosives outside the
building and tried to detonate it.
But his associates were actually undercover officers who
arrested him at the scene — and the bomb was not real.
Federal prosecutors say the man was monitored closely by the
FBI in New York and members of the Joint Terrorism Task
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The world’s oldest profession is giving a whole new meaning
to love of the game.
Players on a cash-strapped Greek soccer team now wear pink
practice jerseys with the logos “Villa Erotica” and “Soula
’s House of History,” two bordellos it recruited as
sponsors after drastic government spending cuts left the
country’s sports clubs facing ruin.
