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Obama Obama Mandates Rules to Raise Fuel Standards
| WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered the government on Friday to develop tougher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, advancing the fight against climate change without waiting for C... (photo: WN / theresa) The New York Times
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A broker is seen at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Europe's stock markets plunged Friday after Wall Street opened a breathtaking 7 percent lower, below the 8,000 level, but they soon recouped some of those losses when the Dow Jones index made a partial comeback. Global stock markets fall for third week as investors flee to safety
| Dubai: Global stock markets dived for the third consecutive week yesterday as investors pulled more cash out of risky instruments and transferred it to safe havens such as gold and bonds. | Eur... (photo: AP / Daniel Roland)) Gulf News
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A young couple walks among shoppers crowding a shopping street Friday, Oct. 21, 2005 in Shanghai, China. China's economy grew at a blistering rate of 9.4 percent in the first three quarters of 2005 as investment surged and the country's politically volatile trade surplus more than doubled, the government said Thur Shanghai city blends in the best of everything
| If you only count people, this city is the largest in the world. Daily, Shanghai becomes the final venue for hundreds of rural workers leaving their agrarian lives for the lure of better-paying jobs... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko) Gulf News
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Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, left, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pose for photographs at the former's residence in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 16, 2009. Singh is not coping with India's problems
| Maoists kill 40 more people, including security officials, at the same place — Dantewada, in Chattisgarh — where some Gandhians had marched for peace earlier in the week. The transfer of... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi) Gulf News
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks to the media as her Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada listens to her during their joint news conference at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, May 21, 2010. Clinton Condemns Attack on South Korean Ship
| TOKYO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton harshly condemned North Korea on Friday for a deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean Navy warship last March, and promised to marshal an inte... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye, POOL) The New York Times
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Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel, 2. von rechts, begruesst den SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzenden Peter Struck, rechts, Aussenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 2. von links, und Finanzminister Peer Steinbrueck, im Bundestag in Berlin am Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008, vor der Debatte ueber die Ergebnisse des EU-Gipfels in Bruessel vom 12. Dezember 2008. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) --- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, 2. from right, welcomes Social Democratic Party's faction leader Peter Struck, right, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, 2. from left, and Finace Minister Peer Steinbrueck, left, prior to the debate at the German parliament in Berlin on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 about the results of the recent European Union Summit in Brussels on Dec. 12, 2008. German Lawmakers Approve Rescue Package
| Germany’s lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag, approved a measure on Friday that allowed the country to contribute to a nearly $1 trillion debt package for the Continent. | The Bundestag ... (photo: AP / Markus Schreiber) The New York Times
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President-apparent Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, talks to the media following his meeting with the new U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas Jr., unseen, at his residence at Manila's Quezon city Friday May 21, 2010. Breaking the Cycle
| HONG KONG — The goals of president-elect Benigno S. Aquino III of the Philippines are obvious: better governance and faster, more equal economic growth. The big issue is how to achieve them. |... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez) The New York Times
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Jeep Wrangler at the Manila Auto Show, World Trade Center Chrysler adds 1,100 jobs at Detroit Jeep plant
| The company made the announcement at a Detroit factory as it celebrated the start of Grand Cherokee production. Chrysler said it expects strong sales of the new sport utility vehicle, which is due i... (photo: ) The Press Democrat
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