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Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis (08 October 12:20) |
| Some analysts say the case-by-case approach of national governments is undermining confidence rather than bolstering it |
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China's View of the Financial Mess: Alarmed But Confident (08 October 12:20) |
| In spite of the global financial mess, Beijing still wants to make its markets more like the West's |
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US Financial Quake Rocks Asia (08 October 12:20) |
| The region is losing confidence it can easily weather a US recession
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South Koreans Are Shaken by a Celebrity Suicide (08 October 12:20) |
| The "Nation's Actress" is found dead in her apartment after being attacked by aggressive online rumors |
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Thai Opposition Protests Heat Up (08 October 12:20) |
| With the new Thai PM doing his job in a defunct airport lounge, police step up action against protesters camped out in Bangkok's government headquarters |
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Amid Global Gloom, the Good News From Africa (08 October 12:20) |
| A continent best known for its symptoms of morbid decline is doing remarkably well by measure of economic growth and good governance |
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The Nobel Prize (08 October 12:20) |
| A look at Alfred Nobel's greatest legacy and its recipients |
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Mixed Results for Lula in Brazil Election
(08 October 12:20) |
| Supporters of the popular president do well in local elections, but not as well as expected |
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Europe Scrambles as the Credit Crisis Goes Global (08 October 12:20) |
| For all the rhetoric about a common front, Germany leads a new run of unilateral action to save institutions and reassure depositors |
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A Saggy-Pants Furor in Riviera Beach (08 October 12:20) |
| A black mayor tries to ban a street dress code but runs afoul of the courts. Could class politics be at work? |
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Europe Scrambles as the Credit Crisis Ricochets Around the World (06 October 05:45) |
| For all the rhetoric about a common front, Germany leads a new run of unilateral action to save institutions and reassure depositors |
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US Embassy in London to Move Down-Market (06 October 05:45) |
| A storied location will be abandoned for a new, more secure building in humbler surroundings |
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The Real Crisis in North Korea? Food (06 October 05:45) |
| While the world speculates on Kim Jong Il's health and whether Washington can get nuclear talks back on track, millions of North Koreans are running out of food |
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The Islamic Republic's Women at the Wheel
(06 October 05:45) |
| Iran's women taxi drivers find an economic opportunity in their society's gender divide |
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A Saggy Pants Furor in Riviera Beach (06 October 01:30) |
| A black mayor tries to ban a street dress code, but runs afoul of the courts. Could class politics be at work? |
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Changing the Conventional Wisdom About Iran (05 October 01:05) |
| France is a key U.S. ally in confronting Iran's nuclear program. But many in
Paris, and Washington, believe that solving the problem requires direct
U.S.-Iranian talks |
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South Africa's Ruling Party on the Verge of Splitting Up
(05 October 01:05) |
| An angry exchange of public denunciations between top leaders of the ANC suggests that some Mbeki loyalists may be planning to quit the party |
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Is South Africa's Ruling Party About to Split?
(04 October 11:55) |
| An angry exchange of public denunciations between top leaders of the ANC suggests that some Mbeki loyalists may be planning to quit the party |
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Arrr! The Somali Pirates and Their Troublesome Treasure (04 October 11:55) |
| It may have looked like just another sluggish freighter, but the Faina's cargo of tanks put the buccaneers in the eye of an international storm |
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Hangman, Spare That Word: The English Purge Their Language (04 October 11:55) |
| A dictionary's cull of archaic terms has brought language mavens onto the ramparts |
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Israelis Wary of a US Radar Base in the Negev (04 October 11:55) |
| A new X-band radar in the Negev desert may provide early warning of any Iranian attack, but some say it's there to serve U.S. objectives rather than Israeli ones
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Japan to Dispense Billions in Foreign Aid (04 October 11:55) |
| Once the world's biggest donor nation, Japan is stepping up efforts to boost its influence in resource-rich developing countries by creating a super agency |
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Why Syria Will Keep Provoking Israel (04 October 11:55) |
| At the prodding of Iran, whose support is critical to the survival of the Assad regime, Damascus can be expected to beef up Hizballah |
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Islamabad After the Marriott Bombing: The Baghdad Effect (04 October 11:55) |
| With security heightened after the Sept. 20 bombing, the city resembles the Iraqi capital of 2003 |
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The Bollywood Strike Hits Festival Season (04 October 11:55) |
| There's been no lights, camera or action in Bollywood with up to 150,000 workers going on strike in India's most glamorous industry |
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US-India Nuclear Deal Goes Through (04 October 11:55) |
| Over three years in the making, the U.S. Senate passes a deal with India that opens up the nuclear power for business |
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Q&A: Bangladesh's Leader Fakhruddin Ahmed (04 October 11:55) |
| Fakhruddin Ahmed explains why he's willing to risk turmoil to hold a new election
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Afghanistan's Very Careful Tour Guides (04 October 11:55) |
| With Taliban activity back on the upswing, most countries still tell their
citizens to stay away. But for the tourists who continue to trickle into
Afghanistan, a homegrown security industry... |
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A Brief History of Pirates (04 October 11:55) |
| Like their peg-legged predecessors, modern pirates are economic opportunists exploiting the world's waterways |
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American Leadership, a Casualty of the Meltdown (04 October 11:55) |
| Viewpoint: Washington's orthodoxies have prevailed since the end of the Cold War, but the credit crisis is accelerating their demise
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A New City in the Saudi Desert (04 October 11:55) |
| Needing jobs and housing for its next generation, the desert kingdom has launched an ambitious plan to build five new cities simultaneously
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Washington Antics Dismay Britain's Conservatives (04 October 11:55) |
| The annual conference of Britain's hopeful opposition party is overshadowed and unsettled by Congress |
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A Shake-Up at the Top of Pakistan's Spy Agency (04 October 11:55) |
| Was it due to U.S prodding or a way for Kayani to prove that his office remains the most powerful in the troubled country? |
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Spike Lee vs. the Italian Resistance (04 October 11:55) |
| Old warriors are up in arms over a scene in Lee's new film about the
Buffalo Soldiers who helped liberate Italy
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Far Right Surges in Austrian Vote (30 September 09:50) |
| Ineffective mainstream parties and worries over immigration push protest parties on right to their best cumulative result since WWII |
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Nuclear Watchdog Mohamed el-Baradei (29 September 08:20) |
| Caught between the West and nuclear upstarts like Iran and North Korea, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has one of the toughest jobs in diplomacy |
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How Sarah Palin Rallied Pakistan's Feminists (29 September 08:20) |
| Flirtatious remarks by President Zardari unleash a firestorm of criticism in Pakistan |
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Europe's Conservatives Sour On the Free Market
(29 September 08:20) |
| France's conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy finds himself echoing long-standing positions of his Socialist opposition |
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Somali Pirates' Unexpected Booty: Russian Tanks
(27 September 07:45) |
| Buccaneers seize ships almost daily off the coast of Somalia, but the booty
doesn't usually include enough T-72s to equip a tank battalion |
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China's Tainted-Milk Scandal Spreads (27 September 07:45) |
| The country's impoverished farmers are the latest casualties as China's dairy sales plummet |
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Border Clashes Add to US-Pakistani Tensions (27 September 07:45) |
| An exchange of fire between U.S. and Pakistani forces along the Afghan border highlights growing friction over who will fight militants in the tribal areas
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Can Bill Gates Help Africa Feed Itself? (27 September 07:45) |
| A new program backed by one of the richest men in the world promises to shake up food aid |
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Six Years Inside Gitmo: A Journalist's Tale (27 September 07:45) |
| Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al-Hajj was recently freed from U.S. military detention. He still awaits an explanation for both his detention and his recent release |
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What's Behind North Korea's Nuclear Power Play (27 September 07:45) |
| Why Pyongyang is threatening to ditch its deal to disarm and restart its nuclear reactor |
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South Africa's Ruling-Party Turmoil: A Boost for Democracy?
(27 September 07:45) |
| Analysis: The political infighting between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma has broken the ruling party's grip on the moral authority of a liberation movement
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Gay-Rights Clash Over Rome Coliseum Kiss (27 September 07:45) |
| A case of alleged public lewdness near Rome's most famous landmark fuels a brewing battle between gay activists and a new conservative city government |
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Beatlemania Hits Israel, Four Decades Late (27 September 07:45) |
| Sir Paul McCartney's concert offers Israeli boomers a costly consolation for the Beatles gig banned by the Jewish State in 1965
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Iraqi Parliament Paves the Way for Provincial Elections
(27 September 07:45) |
| Parliament breaks the deadlock on an electoral law by postponing resolution on the key sticking point of Kirkuk |
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Zardari Tries to Keep His Distance from US (27 September 07:45) |
| The Marriott bombing may offer an opportunity for the new president to rally support for an indigenous war on terror, but only if he can keep Washington off his turf |
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China's New Venture in Space (25 September 12:30) |
| Forty three years after the Soviet Union pulled it off, China gets ready to send its own man on a spacewalk -- and show the world it can do more than throw a good party |
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