Tag: Deal

Republicans deal stinging mid-term rebuke to Obama

CHICAGO: Republicans won a big prize after making huge gains in state legislatures: a once-in-a-decade chance to literally redraw political maps.
The landslide which gave Republicans control of the US House of Representatives in one of the chamber's largest political swings also propelled Republicans to historic gains at the state level in Tuesday's key mid-term elections.
Republicans now control more state legislatures than at any point since 1928 and picked up a net gain

Russia, Poland sign gas deal, eyes on EU stance

WARSAW: Poland and Russia signed a new natural gas deal on Friday, after the EU rejected a previous one, that increases Russian deliveries to Poland's gas company by some 2.5 billion cubic metres to 10 bcm a year until 2022.
Poland would be short of some 2.5 bcm of gas annually without the deal, which was clinched after more than a year of talks and must still be approved by the European Commission.
The European Union executive had forced Warsaw to renegotiate after saying

US, Pakistan did discuss civil nuclear deal: Holbrooke

LAHORE
The United States and Pakistan have informally discussed the possibilities of a civil nuclear deal, US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said on Thursday, according to TV reports.
Holbrooke said that the meeting of the Pakistani delegation, which is in
Washington for the strategic dialogue with the Obama administration, had a very productive meeting with the US president. The special envoy said the US administration had sought the