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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Feb. 23, 2009. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1
Economy   Investment   Market   Photos   US  
 The New York Times 
Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range
| Shares traded within a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows. | With little in the way of economic reports or earnings to help drive shares higher, investors are ta... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Brokers are seen at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany, on Friday, June 27, 2008.
Euro   Finance   Germany   Paris   Photos  
 The New York Times 
Euro Unity? It's Germany That Matters
| PARIS — Ten years after the euro, it’s still all about Germany, which isn’t the way it was supposed to be. | In the run-up to the common currency’s debut in 1999, the air was... (photo: AP / Daniel Roland)
The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) enters Yokosuka, Japan  The New York Times 
Japan Drops Denial of Cold War 'Treaties'
| TOKYO — Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold-war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had allowed American nuclear-armed war... (photo: U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kyle D. Gahlau )
Defence   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   US  
An evacuated Parliament House complex is seen in New Delhi, India, Thursday Dec. 13, 2001. Gunfire and explosions erupted at Indias Parliament House as half a dozen armed men stormed the complex  The New York Times 
Uproar in India Over Quota for Female Lawmakers
| NEW DELHI — The upper house of India’s Parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would amend the Constitution to reserve one-third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatur... (photo: AP / Ajit Kumar)
India   Law   Photos   Politics   Woman  
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou take part a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 8, 2010. The New York Times
Greece Is Not an Island
| My country's economic plight has dominated headlines for months. While many commentators have focused on the underlying problems within Greece, less attention has been ... (photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Economy   Europe   Finance   Greece   Photos  
In front of the pictures of the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech in a ceremony of 19th death anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Ahmadinejad, known for vitriolic anti-Israeli rhetoric, has again predicted the demise of Israel, according to Iran's IRNA news ag The New York Times
To Bash Them Is to Help Them
| PARIS - On her recent visit to the Gulf, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton openly stated a fact that is finally becoming clear to outsiders: Iran is moving toward mili... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Iran   Photos   Politics   Sanctions   US  
A wooden boat carrying Sri Lankans migrants is seen docked next to an Indonesian Navy ship at a port in Cilegon, banten province, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009. The Daily Telegraph Australia
Kevin Rudd and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to stop people smuggling
| PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will formalise an agreement to combat people smuggling today. | Dr Yudhoyono will make histo... (photo: AP / Irwin Fedriansyah)
Australia   Immigration   Indonesia   Photos   Politics  
Anti-Myanmar government protesters hold posters of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest to demand her release in front of the U.N. office in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 22, 2009. Asia Times
'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar
| By Stanley A Weiss | MANDALAY - In September 1952, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and Chinese foreign minister Chou Enlai convened an extraordinary meeting to discuss t... (photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit)
China   Foreign Policy   Myanmar   Photos   US  
Electoral workers sit in front of piles of ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. Asia Times
Atrocities may fill Iraqi power vacuum
| By Ali Kareem and Hemin H Lihony | BAGHDAD and SULAIMANIYAH - The post-election political deadlock following Iraq's parliamentary elections on Sunday could lead to secu... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim)
Elections   Extremism   Iraq   Photos   Politics  
Indonesian police officers check a car during a search for militants in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. The New York Times
Indonesian Forces Kill 3 Terror Suspects
| JAKARTA — Indonesian counterterrorism forces stormed an Internet cafe and a nearby house on the outskirts of Jakarta on Tuesday, killing three suspected terrorist... (photo: AP / Heri Juanda)
Indonesia   Jakarta   Photos   Security   Terrorism  
A Eurostar train enters the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France, in this Nov. 21, 1996 file photo. Anglo-French tunnel operator Eurotunnel reported a euro1.89 billion (US$2.36 billion) net loss in 2003 on Monday, Feb. 9, 2004 and said it had appealed to the French and British governments to allow for a rate cut to help boost traffic. The New York Times
Eurotunnel Ekes Out Profit for 2009 Despite Disasters
| PARIS — Eurotunnel Group said Tuesday that it managed to make a profit in 2009, despite lingering repercussions from a 2008 fire and the disastrous breakdown of E... (photo: AP / Michel Spingler, file)
Business   Company   Disaster   Photos   Transport  
Barack Obama and Joe Biden at rally held in their honor at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on October 29, 2008 Star Tribune
Restrictions on abortion funding take on different form in Obama's health care overhaul bill
| WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
Health   Obama   Photos   US   World  
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