MEPs back Kenya cash freeze
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The European Parliament has called on the EU to halt direct budgetary aid to the Kenyan government.
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Sri Lanka on Tuesday welcomed a European Union ban against the island's Tamil Tiger rebels that diplomats said would freeze the their assets, saying it hoped it would convince the rebels to resume peace talks.
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Britain, with United States backing,  called on Tuesday for a freeze on foreign debts owed by the  countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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London's Metropolitan Police return some money seized from impeached Nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 13 (IPS) - The European Union's freeze on direct aid to  the Palestinian Authority has led to sharp increases in debts  owed by families in the West Bank and Gaza, the relief agency  Oxfam has alleged.
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An EU court reverses a four-year-old decision to freeze the funds of an Iranian opposition group.
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The Hungarian parliament approved tax rises at the core of an austerity plan aimed at reducing a swollen public deficit that threatens economic stability and blocks adoption of the euro.
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The Bank of England has frozen the assets of a London-based Saudi opposition group whose leader is suspected of being a supporter of terrorist group al-Qaeda.
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The European Union's chief election  monitor in Kenya on Friday condemned clashes that have killed  hundreds and displaced thousands in the run-up to a December 27  presidential and parliamentary election.
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PARIS, Jan 17 (IPS) - The richer nations have made much of the freeze  they have offered on debt repayments from tsunami-hit countries,  but many of the affected countries do not seem to want this  concession.
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Business & money: Norwich Union tipped as next to impose freeze on withdrawals by small savers
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Kenyan MPs vote to give themselves a $22,000 bonus each, despite public condemnation.
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The G7 nations, led by the UK, agree to freeze debt repayments from countries hit by the Asian tsunami.
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The UK government on Friday directed financial institutions to freeze the funds of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA) with immediate effect.
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KISUMU, Kenya  - Protests and looting flared in Kenyan opposition strongholds on Saturday as delays announcing a presidential election result prompted rigging claims in east Africa's economic power.
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The Kenyan government on Wednesdayevening confirmed the release of its three nationals who had been kidnapped in Iraq more than a month ago, saying they will return home soon.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown  said on Thursday he has full support from other major  industrialized nations to freeze debt repayments from countries  afflicted by the Asian tsunami disaster immediately.