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AP - An anxiously awaited meeting of European finance ministers ended Tuesday without an agreement to bail out Ireland’s debt-stricken government, though both Irish and EU officials vowed to stabilize…

Reuters - India’s main opposition on Monday kept up its demand for a parliamentary probe into a telecoms license row despite a government minister resigning over the issue, threatening to…

Reuters - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez came close to tears on Monday in her first televised comments since the death last week of her powerful husband and closest advisor, Nestor…

Reuters - China said on Thursday it will not use its dominance of rare earths supplies as a “bargaining tool” with foreign economies, and the United States said it would…

AP - The world’s leading advanced and emerging countries vowed Saturday to avoid potentially debilitating currency devaluations, aiming to quell trade tensions that could threaten the global recovery.

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AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson has backed Mark Hughes to become a success at Fulham, but has told his former player there is no chance of a shock win over…

AP - Ecuador pledged in a pioneering agreement with the United Nations on Tuesday to refrain from oil drilling in a pristine Amazon preserve in return for some $3.6 billion…

Reuters - President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday to punish al Qaeda’s north African wing for killing a 78-year-old French hostage after a commando raid in Mali failed to free…

AP - It has no headquarters and its public face — a wiry, silver-haired Australian with a physics Ph.D. — carries his desktop computer in a backpack as he moves…

AP - North Korea warned Saturday that joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend amount to a military provocation that will draw a “powerful” nuclear…