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General Motors’ sales in North America fell by 20% owing to falling demand of pick-up trucks and sports utility vehicles. GMs quarterly loss amounts to $15.5bn (£7.8bn). All other auto giants too are facing the crisis. Nissan reported a 42.8% fall in...
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While the U.S. Senate predictably capitulated to the demands of Wall Street last night, for the first time in recent memory the House listened to the American people...
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For those who savor historical irony, the Soviet Empire collapsed in the years 1989-1991 because of an implosion of its economy brought on by a ruinous arms race with...
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When Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, many had high hopes that his breakthrough would move American social consciousness forward into a post-racial era.
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A U.S.-Iraqi security agreement spelling out how American troops and contractors operate was supposed to be in place over the summer, but the thorniest issues remain...
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In the wonderful movie Contact, from Carl Sagan’s novel about first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, scientist Ellie Arroway must convince a panel that...
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Women are being warned that some lipsticks could contain lead. The warnings come in the wake of a U.S. ruling that a class action suit can proceed against luxury goods...
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Pakistan’s crackdown on organizations operating in Indian-administered Kashmir in 2003 provoked an exodus from the militant camps in Pakistani-administered...
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Pakistan’s foreign currency reserves are falling fast and if forward liabilities are included, the real reserves may go down to $3 billion. This cannot meet the...
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Let me tell you, I am not a great movie buff. Infact, I have no patience to sit and watch a three hour long movie, even in a theatre. So, better you imagine, how...
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The Times of India Delhi edition on Thursday, October 9, 2008 published an article on Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Somnath Chatterjee’s refusal to visit Britain because the...
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday that the country will not cut budgets allocated for infrastructure programs despite the current financial...
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Brazil’s National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) fell to a one-year low of 0.26 percent in September, down from 0.28 percent in August and up from 0.18 percent in...
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Brazil’s Central Bank Wednesday staged the first U.S. dollar auctions on the foreign exchange market since March 2003, selling 1.7 billion dollars altogether
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American officials arrested a Mexican businessman for allegedly smuggle huge quantities of blank compact disks from the United States into Mexico.
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday discussed efforts to curb worsening global financial crisis with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Latin American equities were rattled Wednesday after a key organization forecast a major downturn in global economic growth, but Brazilian and Mexican markets finished...
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airfield High School foreign exchange student Glaucia Lie Terasaka thought she just might be crazy to hop on a plane and leave behind her family, her friends and the...
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Until he was gunned down over the weekend, Salvador Vergara Cruz was a man of some influence with a promising future in his political party.
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A newspaper editor, a columnist, police officers and bar patrons were among those killed in separate acts of violence this week in the unrelenting drug war that has...
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Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the...
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Is this the perfect storm of worldwide panic and desperation created by the financial, food and fuel crisis not to mention climate change or is it media hysteria or is...
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Only a few days back, I was involved in a fierce debate at the lunch table about how biodiesel might end up creating a problem rather than being a solution to the...
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Despite a 75 per cent increase in gas prices this year, Americans have consumed 10 per cent more gasoline in the first half of this year. A ghastly discovery if one is...
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