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Oct 5 2009, Asokananda Prosad

US President Barack Obama addressed the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2009 inspiring the world leaders to engineer “a new era of engagement based on mutual interest and mutual respect”. Candidly, he acknowledged that the US has fallen...

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Britain’s Treasury chief Alistair Darling arrives for the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at a hotel near Horsham in Sussex, England Friday, March 13, 2009. To spend or regulate their way out of the world recession? That’s the question finance ministers...