While a United States Senate panel scrutinizes Apple's use of Ireland as a tax shelter, attention in Britain has focused on Google, which employs a similar system.
A11 Slow Start for U.N. Inquiry Paul A. Volcker, who heads a United Nations-appointed panel investigating charges of corruption in the oil-for-food program in Iraq, said he would probably need $30 million and another year to reach a determination.
In the meantime, an investigator associated with the independent United Nations-appointed panel looking into corruption in the oil-for-food program, said that his group had not begun investigating whether or how American and other oil companies had benefited.
A United States-Canadian panel put much of the blame on the FirstEnergy Corporation, which failed to shut off some clients protectively and apparently did not have a plan for doing so on short notice.
After the first round of voting, a United Nations-backed panel threw out nearly a million of Mr. Karzai's ballots — one-third of his total — on the ground that they were fake.
After testing alternative explanations, a United Nations-sponsored panel concludes in a draft of an upcoming report that "there has been a discernible human influence on global climate".
This is simply not the case, and the chair and panel are united in their determination to see this important work through to a conclusion".
A special House panel, unusually united across party lines, criticized the Energy Department on Friday, saying it did not follow Congressional guidance in creating an agency to oversee nuclear weapons programs.
"This adds impetus for governments of the world to find ways to live up to their commitments" to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, said Dr. Robert T. Watson, chairman of the United Nations-affiliated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which organized the meeting in Shanghai.
uSamp (short for United Sample), an Internet panel company with offices in Los Angeles, India, Connecticut and London, this morning announced that it has closed a $10 million Series C round of financing.
