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The Week Ahead: July 12 – July 18 2010

Posted on July 11th 2010 by


The World Cup is now over after Spain beat the Netherlands 1-0 in the final, giving Spain its first ever World Cup title. While the final match will certainly remain in memory for some time this also opens up the news agenda for other stories. Here are some of those coming up in the week ahead.

China will be in the spotlight as it releases its yearly figures for GDP, inflation and production. With China’s increasingly important role in the global economy these figures will affect the faith put in the giant country’s economy. The figures will be released on Thursday July 15th.

France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy will be holding a live interview to the nation on Monday July 12th to address the accusations that he had received an illegal donation from the richest woman in France, Liliane Bettencourt.

Former Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba will go on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Court on July 14th. He stands accused of three charges of war crimes and two of crimes against humanity.

Also in the news next week:

On Thursday India’s and Pakistan’s foreign ministers will be meeting  and on Tuesday the Finance Ministers in the EU will convene. The US Senate will be meeting this week to vote on the nomination of Elena Kagan for Supreme Court justice.

Watch these stories and more develop on Livestation.

The Week Ahead on Livestation: 5 – 11 April

Posted on April 4th 2010 by


Here are some of the stories that should make the headlines  next week.

US president Barack Obama will be meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Prague on Thursday, 8 April, to sign a strategic arms reduction treaty. The new START treaty will reduce strategic warheads by a third.

China’s and India’s foreign ministers Yang Jiechi and S. M. Krishna will be meeting in Beijing on Monday, 5 April to hold bilaterial talks on a number of themes. Among them is likely to be a discussion on making a case to give India a seat in the United Nations Security Council.

The Financial Crisis Inquriy Commission will be holding its next public hearing on Wednesday, 7 April until Friday 9 April, with members of Citigroup and Alan Greenspan.

Also in the next week:

Tim Geithner, America’s Treasury secretary will be going to India on Tuesday 6 April to meet with India’s financial minister Pranab Mukherjee, to launch a US-India Economic and Financial partnership

Sudan will start its elections on Sunday, 11 April. This is in spite of a number of parties in the region asking for the elections to be postponed and threats of election boycotts.

Stay in the loop with these stories and more on Livestation.