Budapest - Financing for a proposed European gas pipeline that skirts Russia may be delayed by the global credit crunch, a Hungarian official was quoted Tuesday as saying.
But Mihaly Bayer, Hungary's special envoy for the Nabucco pipeline, insisted that governments could still be able to sign an agreement this year to launch the project, the MTI news agency reported.
The 3,300-kilometre line is slated to run Caspian gas via Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to an Austrian distribution hub. Gas is to start flowing in 2013.
Washington - The US treasury secretary and central bank head Thursday outlined details of a historic finance rescue plan that would help healthy finance firms and banks in addition to propping up weak or troubled companies.
Washington - Under pressure to rapidly adopt a rescue plan for the nation's finance system, US senators on Tuesday expressed anger at the prospect of bailing out Wall Street risk-takers but acknowledged the urgency of the issue.
Government for failing to control terrorism during its rule. Due to this, the image of the Muslim community and the state has been negatively projected throughout the nation. 
Bogota - Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was held hostage by leftist rebels for more than six years before her rescue in early July, said Monday that she is not yet planning to return to Colombia because of death threats issued by her former captors.
Paris - As expected, the lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, on Monday voted to prolong the presence of the country's troops in Afghanistan.
