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Market turmoil continues -Bernanke
Jul. 10 - The year-long disruption of financial markets sparked by the collapse of the subprime...
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Bank worries hit US consumers
Jul. 15 - After the collapse and reopening of IndyMac under federal control, consumers are facing...
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Anger after WTO talks collapse
Jul 30 - Recriminations fly across Asia as WTO talks fail while Latin America demand a banana...
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Is Doha collapse good for Brazil?
Jul. 30 - The collapse of the Doha trade talks may have been a setback for globalization, but...
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Fed keeps rates at 2 percent
The Federal Reserve held rates steady, despite calls for a rate cut to shore-up confidence in the...
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Wall St. sinks 4 pct post AIG
The federal rescue of troubled insurance giant American International Group did little to soothe...
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Russian bourses halt trading
Russian bourses halted trading after the biggest slump since the 1998 collapse with the...
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SEC clamps down on short sellers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled new rules, which go into effect on Thursday,...
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FBI Investigating Companies at Heart of Meltdown
The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose
collapse helped trigger a...
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Hypo's deal to avoid finance squeeze
German lender Hypo Real Estate secures 35 billion euros in credit guarantees from the German...
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Bailout passes
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a revamped $700 billion financial bailout bill Friday...
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The fall of Lehman
Lehman chief executive Richard Fuld told lawmakers that regulators were aware of everything that...
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Safe sales soar
Safe as houses - customers look for new places to keep their cash in case of a banking...
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Iceland negotiates loan in Moscow
After asking for IMF financing, an Icelandic delegation heads to Moscow to hammer out details of...
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Lehman fallout hits Japan's elderly
The collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers caused anguish in a small Japanese...
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Should GM file for bankruptcy?
The country's biggest automaker teeters on collapse, burning through $2b each month with consumer...
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Big Three autos plead for help
GM, Ford and Chrysler were on the hot seat on Capitol Hill as they pleaded with lawmakers to pass...
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Paulson on defense
Treasury Secretary Paulson defended his response to the financial crisis and said the government...
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Moscow's construction crunch
The global financial crisis hits Russian construction market, resulting in the freezing of major...
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Brokers get the blues
It's not just home buyers and sellers feeling the pain of the housing collapse, brokers are also...
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Mixed messages from UK High Street
A string of British retailers ease fears of a collapse in consumer spending but concerns linger...
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Former bankers find life in trash
Three former Wall Street bankers are using their expertise and following their hearts by creating...
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Leatherheads
In 1925, Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero who is determined to guide his team from...
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US banks turn to investors for cash after stress test findings
Washington - Major US banks turned to private investors Friday in the hopes of finding 75 billion...
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Clinton: US considers special protection for Haitian immigrants
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - The United States considers a temporary halt of deportations of about...
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Back in US, Obama turns to domestic issues
Washington - US President Barack Obama put the spotlight back on his domestic agenda Thursday after...
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Obama Europe trip hailed "great success"
Ankara - US President Barack Obama left Turkey on Tuesday at the end of his first major foreign...
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Obama wraps up Turkey trip with call to youth
Ankara - US President Barack Obama wrapped up a two-day visit to Muslim Turkey on Tuesday by...
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US seeks powers to take over non-financial firms in wake of AIG
Washington - US authorities need broad new emergency powers to take over non-financial firms whose...
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Obama unveils measures for small businesses at "heart" of economy
Washington - US President Barack Obama laid out a new effort Monday to help small businesses...
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Bernanke: US recession could end this year
Washington - US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a television interview aired Sunday...
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TV entertainment holds mirror to US during recession
Los Angeles - US viewers turning to their televisions for comfort and distraction from economic...
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Federal Panel: California Must Release 58,000 Inmates
Federal judges ruled yesterday that the state of California must reduce the number of inmates in...
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Al Gore: Stimulus Plan Will Help Counter Climate Change
With the economic crisis in focus over the past couple of months, many people probably forgot about...
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Bush defends "tough decisions" in farewell speech
US President George W Bush in his farewell address Thursday said there can be "little...
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Madoff faces new charges; Congress starts probe
Washington - Bernard Madoff, already awaiting trial in a 50- billion-dollar investment Ponzi...
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US Congress to start probe of Madoff Ponzi scheme
Washington - The US Congress on Monday was to open a probe into Bernard Madoff's alleged...
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Winter Storm, ‘Hazardous’ Traveling Conditions Make Victims
A powerful winter storm hit the US West Coast painting all landscapes in white. The storm featured...
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Obama names agriculture, interior ministers
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named his cabinet picks for the agriculture...
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Timothy Geithner Already Well-versed In Financial Crisis
Washington - Timothy Geithner, a career civil servant heavily involved in current efforts to bring...
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Obama's economic, foreign policy teams taking shape
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama has settled on much of his economic and foreign policy...
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Report: NY Fed chief Geithner to be named Treasury secretary
Washington - New York Federal Reserve Chairman Timothy Geithner is set to become US treasury...
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Obama fills White House positions, still vetting Clinton
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled new members of future White House...
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Obama still vetting Clinton, may pick Daschle for health secretary
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled who will develop his key policy...
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US automakers plead for bail-out with skeptical Congress
Washington - Chiefs of the three US automakers went before Congress on Tuesday seeking an emergency...
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Obama Wants To Help Automakers And Homeowners
Washington - In his first official appearance since the ellection, Barack Obama stated that a...
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Obama seeks help for automakers, homeowners; jokes over family life
Washington - In his first interview as president-elect, Barack Obama called for help for the ailing...
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If God shows the way, Palin says she's ready for White House
Washington - Sarah Palin is saying more than a prayer as she sheds the baggage of the 2008...
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Why the Minneapolis Bridge Collapsed…
Federal investigators on Thursday tried to establish what exactly caused the collapse of the...
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Now It's Up to Voters in Historic US Elections
Washington - After an historic 20 months of rallies, debates and countless commercials in the most...
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Obama's Star Rose Fast with Eloquent Speech, Steady Presence
Washington - Barack Obama's enigmatic smile has seen him through many difficult times - even when...
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The Candidates Positions on Key Issues
Washington - The US presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama, 47, and Republican John McCain,...
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Suicide Rates Up Among American Middle-Aged Women
Suicide rates in America are rising for the first
time since the early ‘90s, and the most affected...
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Building Collapses in Lower Manhattan
The New York City Fire Department confirmed the fact that a building in lower Manhattan has...
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Nobel laureate's papers found in rubble of German archives
Cologne, Germany - A novelist's papers, including the scroll awarding him the 1972 Nobel Prize for...
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Thai Police to Charge Owner in Night Club Fire that Killed 62
Thai police said it will charge the owner of the Bangkok night club in which 62 people burned to...
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Global Warming, A Security Issue?
There are so many opinions on global warming, green parties want a united effort to fight it, those...
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Christmas as We Know it is Richer Thanks to Charles Dickens
In his book, “The Man Who Invented Christmas” (2008), Lee Standiford keeps boasting the...
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Sony And Visa Help On Saving Money On Your Playstation
With the world in financial collapse, what is the best way to show that you don’t care? Another...
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Attorney General Is Fine After Collapse While Holding Speech
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey is said to feel better after his collapse while holding a...
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Owner of Collapsed Haitian School, Arrested
Friday was a grim day for Haiti, as the La Promesse Evangelique College in Petionville, which held...
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Google And Yahoo May Not Join Forces After All
The partnership between the world’s most popular Internet giants might not happen after all as...
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US voters to decide best leader in crisis: McCain or Obama
Washington (dpa) - The presidential battle between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain...
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San Francisco Marks the 75th Anniversary of Coit Tower, a City Symbol
San Francisco celebrates the 75th anniversary of Coit Tower, a city landmark that was built atop...
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DWTS’ Julianne Hough: ‘Everybody, I'm ok’
Julianne Hough is safe and sound after being hospitalized for severe stomach pain. She was rushed...
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Golden Gate Bridge Directors Vote for Suicide Safety Net
The magnificent Golden gate bridge, for all its beauty, or
maybe because of it, has always...
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A Good Cut and Grooming Can Make Hair Look Fuller
Hamburg - Most women crave fuller hair, but in reality the dream of having flowing tufts is...
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Lane and Gere Grow Sweeter as They Grow Old
Former unfaithful Diane Lane humbly reaches out to a now older, but still job dedicated Richard...
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Sharing Is Caring When It Comes To Fish
A global study presented in the journal Science reached the
conclusion that fisheries which use...
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Medical Students Avoid Internal Medicine As A Specialty
Internal medicine appears to be the last option of medical
students when it comes to choose...
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“DogTown” Shows How Michael Vick’s Pit Bulls Became Man’s Best Friends
Some save dogs for a living. They offer them medical care,
restore them to health and teach them...
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Don LaFontaine, "King of the Movie Trailers," Dies at 68
Don LaFontaine, the artist whose prolific voice has been heard in hundreds o commercials, passed...
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Fire Not Explosives Leveled Building 7 on 9/11
After a three-year long investigation conducted by the
National Institute of Standards and...
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Rielle Hunter Refused to Take DNA Test for Her Child
John Edwards explained in an interview recently that he
definitely didn’t have a baby with his...
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Ivins’ Psychotherapist Says He Was a “Revenge Killer”
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who supposedly killed himself this week, “was going to go out in a...
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City Crane Operations Suspended Through Weekend
It seems that New York City will suspend all crane construction until June 2, and hire 20 new...
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James Hook & Co. Lobster Company's Fire Incident
A fire that broke out around 3 a.m. today managed to destroy
the historic James Hook & Co....
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Supernova - The Death Of A Star Brings Hope For The Future
Theoretically, scientists have
managed to explain the death of a star by mere assumptions and...
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Windows Is Collapsing. Is It The End Of The World As We Know It?
In a conference held in Las Vegas, two Gartner analysts presented a
report titled "Windows Is...
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Science
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US tourist joins new ISS crew for second trip into space
Moscow - US software billionaire Charles Simonyi became the world's first two-time space tourist as...
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Mount Redoubt Calm, but Will Soon Erupt Again
Although everything seems to be tranquil now at volcano Redoubt after six explosive eruptions on...
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Scientists: Sea levels could rise 1 metre as Antarctic ice melts
Wellington - A large amount of permanent Antarctic ice could melt in the next 100...
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Archaeologists May Have Stumbled Upon King Solomon’s Legendary Mines
For decades, archaeologists and biblical interpreters have
been on a constant quest to find the...
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Dying Star Sent Energetic Jet Directly Towards Earth
On March 19, NASA’s Swift Burst Alert Telescope witnessed an
extraordinary burst of light 7.5...
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Hubble Space Telescope Provides a Better Understanding of NGC 1275
According to the announcement a group of British astronomers has released on Wednesday, the force...
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The Environment To Lose California To Global Warming
A recent study on some of the effects of global warming
presents some rather alarming results...
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The Global Warming Issue Needs To Be Addressed NOW
20 years ago, James Hansen, a highly respected NASA
scientist sounded for the first time the alarm...
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Crandall Mine Collapse - Instant, Fatal, Not Triggered By Quake
The latest geological investigation
on last summer’s Crandall Canyon mine collapse concluded that...
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Visionary Physicist John A. Wheeler Dies At Age 96
The world lost a remarkable scientific figure of the 20th
century on the morning of April 13,...
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Star Dies Halfway Across The Universe In Amazing Burst Of Light
NASA’s Swift satellite detected
the farthest burst of light visible to the naked eye on March 19....
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Thieves Go For Bees! Californian Beekeepers On Alert
One year after beekeepers have
had to deal with a mysterious disorder among their bee colonies...
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Planets, Resembling Earth, Raise Hopes of Extra-Terrestrial Life
Rocky planets, resembling Earth could be found around most sun
like stars in our galaxy, a new...
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Russia Launched Three New Navigation Satellites
On Tuesday night Russia sent three new satellites into space, in
a move that aims to extend the...
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Scientists: IAPV May Be A Factor In Honey Bee Disorder
According to a report being published by the journal Science
the scientists discovered that a...
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World
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Ukraine coal miners found alive days after shaft collapse
Kiev - Three Ukrainian coal miners were found alive days after a tunnel collapse trapped them...
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Argentina considers doping tests on polo horses after deaths
Buenos Aires (dpa) - The deaths in the United States of 21 polo horses belonging to the Venezuelan...
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Early Easter pain for Ireland as tough extra budget announced
Dublin - The sufferings of Easter week began Tuesday in Ireland with the announcement of an...
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Italian earthquake toll at 211 after students found dead
L'Aquila, Italy - The bodies of four students located Tuesday under rubble brought to 211 the death...
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Italian earthquake death toll now at 207
Rome - By midday Tuesday the death toll from an earthquake that struck central Italy early the...
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Architectural treasures damaged in Italian earthquake
Rome - While public attention in Italy continued to focus Tuesday on the human toll of the...
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Czech government faces confidence test during EU presidency
Prague - The Czech government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek faced a vote of no-confidence...
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Obama: US seeks aggressive action from G20 members
Washington - The United States will push for aggressive action to halt the global economic slide at...
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Ukraine Capital Short On Gas, Kievites Battle The Cold
Kiev - City managers in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Tuesday began energy conservation measures...
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Merckle Conglomerate Gets Transfer of 400 M Euros from Banks
The group of banks with which Merckle family negotiated the granting of a bridge loan, has...
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Can Anyone Win The Russia-Ukraine Gas War?
Brussels - "A strange game: the only way to win is not to play."
The quote comes...
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Japan's Stock Market Ends Worst Year In Trading History
Tokyo - For Tokyo's traders, it was the worst year on record for Asia's leading stock market -...
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Cuban Revolution Survives 50 Years Despite Changing World
Havana - Collapsed political systems, presidents who came and went, wars and attacks, broken...
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Europe Gears Up To Mark Decades Of Change
Berlin - Europe is gearing up to mark a series of major anniversaries next year, defining moments...
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Christmas Looks Grim For Jobless Migrants In Spain
Madrid - For Maria G., a 40-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant in Madrid, it is a grim Christmas ahead....
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Russia Pursues Ambitious Goals Despite Financial Crisis
Moscow - Russia set out its development goals until 2012 this year, but the four-year budget plan...
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Mugabe Party Jamboree Begins In Shadow Of Cholera
Harare - President Robert Mugabe's once indomitable Zanu-PF party gathers on Thursday for its...
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Pakistan Teetering In Fight Against Terrorism
Islamabad - In 2008, Pakistan wobbled in its fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who have...
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US In Year-Long Recession, Top Economic Arbiter Declares
Washington - The United States has been in a recession since December 2007, the country's official...
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Canadian Government Could Be Toppled By Opposition Coalition
Montreal - In a stunning reversal of political fortunes, the leader of Canada's official...
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Georgia, Ukraine Set For Disappointment At NATO Meeting
Brussels - Despite intense lobbying, Georgia and Ukraine look certain not to be offered a fast...
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President Bush Calls For Mugabe's Resignation
U.S. President George Bush has called for the end of President Robert Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe and...
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India’s Navy to Hunt Some Pirates
The Indian navy has received formal approval from the United
Nations to track down and destroy...
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Russia, China Strike Deals, Challenge US In Latin America
Lima - By the time United States President George W Bush arrived in Lima Friday for the annual...
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Icelanders In Shock After Financial Crisis
Reykjavik/Dieburg - Karlheinz Bellmann went to Iceland to find out what had happened to his...
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Spain's Officials Salute The Arrest Of ETA's Leader
Madrid/Paris - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero stated that the arrest of the...
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Divisions Deepen Within A Weakened
Madrid - When Txeroki, the suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA,...
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ETA's Chief Detained In France
Madrid/Paris - Last night, French and Spanish police officers managed to detain the suspected...
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Leaders meet as economic woes pile up
Washington - The world's 20 leading economies are holding an historic summit in Washington Saturday...
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G20 leaders open critical financial summit
Washington - The world's 20 top economies launched on Saturday an historic summit aimed at...
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Business
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CEO says AIG needs no more bail-outs, for now
Washington - American International Group Inc (AIG), the troubled global insurance giant that...
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Chrysler gets urgent court approval for loan
Washington - Perched on the brink of collapse, Chrysler LLC crept forward Tuesday with approval by...
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Boston Globe closure on hold as unions give way
San Francisco - The Boston Globe pulled back from the brink of closure Monday as its owner The New...
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Key US investor rejects takeover bid for Hypo Real Estate
Munich - A US private-equity investor, Christopher Flowers, rejected Thursday a takeover bid...
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Wall Street falls for second day on swine flu, banking fears
New York - Major US stock indices fell for a second straight day Tuesday as concerns over the...
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US consumer confidence jumps in April
Washington - Consumer confidence in the United States surged in April as governments have begun...
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Daimler warns of exposure to Chrysler collapse
Berlin - German automotive group Daimler, which is struggling with a slump in sales of its...
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US Treasury agrees on fresh support for auto suppliers
Washington - The US Treasury Department on Wednesday launched a new programme to aid US car...
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US seeks dramatic expansion of financial regulatory powers
Washington - President Barack Obama's administration, in a massive overhaul of the US financial...
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US unveils trillion-dollar toxic-asset rescue bid
Washington - The United States will use both private and public funds to buy up...
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AIG, Obama under fire as Congress, public take aim
Washington - The US Congress tapped into growing public ire over bailed-out insurance giant AIG's...
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Some AIG workers offer to return incendiary bonuses
Washington - In a conciliatory gesture, some AIG employees have offered to return some of the 165...
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US housing construction surges in February
Washington - The construction of new homes in the United States unexpectedly surged in...
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Chrysler, Fiat Reach Agreement to Bring 7 New Cars in U.S.
Chrysler LLC and Fiat S.p.A. reached a product-sharing agreement under which the two giant...
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Investors to buy failed US bank IndyMac
Washington - A group of private investors is to buy US bank IndyMac, which was seized by...
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US stocks slump over bleak corporate outlook
A 17.4-billion-dollar deal between Kuwait's state-run Petrochemical Industries Co and Dow Chemical...
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Obama urges car industry bail-out as Republicans balk
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama Thursday called on Congress to prevent a collapse of...
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No Christmas Gravy For Europe's Ailing Carmakers
Brussels - Ah, the style of an Italian Ferrari, the solidity of a German Mercedes, the flair of a...
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Half-price BMW, Anyone? South Africa Feels The Squeeze
Johannesburg - When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was...
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GM, Ford report massive losses; Obama assures support
Washington - The two major US automakers, Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp, reported massive...
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Fed slashes rates to 1 per cent in bid to shore up economy
Washington - The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates Wednesday by 0.5 percentage points to 1 per...
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Exelon offers 6.2 billion dollars for discounted NRG Energy
New York - Giant energy company Exelon Corp, the country's largest utility, has made an uninvited...
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Asian-Pacific Stocks Rising on South Korea Financial Rescue Package
Tokyo - Asia-Pacific stocks rose on Monday after South Korea announced a more than...
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“Collapse! Chaos” to be Launched on the iPhone
RealNetworks, a Seattle-based provider of Internet media
delivery software and services, has...
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Japan Sucked Ever Deeper into Financial Maelstrom
Tokyo - Never before has the Japanese economy been buffeted so severely by financial sources...
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Bank of Japan Injects Record $40 Billion into Market
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan pumped a record 4 trillion yen (39.8 billion dollars) into the money...
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AIG accused of hiding risks from auditors
Washington - Federal regulators and auditors warned American International Group Inc (AIG) about a...
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UK Increases Guarantees of Bank Deposits
London - Britain increased the upper limit of guarantees offered to savers on deposits to 50,000...
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Senate passes financial rescue plan; House to vote next
Washington - The US Senate approved a 700-billion-dollar financial rescue package Wednesday night...
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Britain nationalizes lender in latest rescue bid
London - The British government Monday averted another
direct blow to the crisis-hit banking...
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