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Japanese economy grew at 3.5% pace in 1Q
Issued: May 16, 2013
TOKYO — Japan's economy grew by a stronger-than-expected 3.5 percent in annual terms last quarter, giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a boost as his...
Eurozone recession longest in currency bloc
Issued: May 16, 2013
PARIS — The eurozone is now in its longest ever recession — a stubborn slump that has surpassed even the calamity that hit the region in the financial...
Geneva auction sells huge diamond for $26.7M
Issued: May 15, 2013
GENEVA — A huge diamond unearthed in Botswana commanded an unearthly price of $26.7 million from Christie's auction house Wednesday amid the...
Wigs? A map? Strange stuff in alleged US spy kit
Issued: May 15, 2013
MOSCOW — A couple of wigs, sunglasses and a compass? Really? ...
Space not the final frontier for viewing movies
Issued: May 15, 2013
WASHINGTON — The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before — to see the new "Star Trek" film. ...
UK casino accuses US poker star Ivey of cheating
Issued: May 15, 2013
LONDON — A major casino operator is accusing Phil Ivey, an American who is one of the world's top professional poker players, of amassing millions...
Bank of England sees 'modest, sustained' recovery
Issued: May 15, 2013
LONDON — The Bank of England predicted a modest and sustained economic recovery for Britain on Wednesday, but tempered hope that the worst might be...
Arctic states open council to China, India, Korea
Issued: May 15, 2013
KIRUNA, Sweden — Arctic states have agreed to let nations that are located nowhere near the Earth's north to become observers to their diplomatic...
Foreign investment in LatAm-Caribbean hits record $173B
Issued: May 15, 2013
Foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean rose 6.7 percent to a record $173.3 billion in 2012 despite an external context...
Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacks
Issued: May 14, 2013
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents...
Secretive Vatican bank to publish annual report
Issued: May 14, 2013
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican bank, long a source of secret and scandal for the Holy See, plans to publish its annual report online as part of its...
Fitch upgrades Greece's credit rating
Issued: May 14, 2013
ATHENS, Greece — Debt-hobbled Greece got some rare goods news on Tuesday, when Fitch ratings agency upgraded its sovereign credit grade after the...
Hedge fund wants part of Sony entertainment sold
Issued: May 14, 2013
TOKYO — The U.S. hedge fund manager renowned for shaking up Yahoo Inc. has set his sights on Sony Corp., proposing that the Japanese electronics giant...
EU probes oil companies for possible price-fixing
Issued: May 14, 2013
LONDON — European anti-trust authorities have launched investigations into at least three oil companies on suspicion of price-fixing. ...
Russia detains US diplomat accused of spying
Issued: May 14, 2013
MOSCOW — Russia’s security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA agent in a red-handed attempt to recruit a Russian...
EU to shift bill for bank failures to creditors
Issued: May 14, 2013
BRUSSELS — European Union governments want to shift the cost of rescuing troubled banks from taxpayers to the banks' creditors, including the...
Eurozone growth hopes emerge after industrial data
Issued: May 14, 2013
LONDON — A larger-than-expected increase in industrial production across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has raised hopes that the...
China tightens grip on discourse, ideology
Issued: May 14, 2013
BEIJING — Chinese authorities have shut down or frozen the microblog accounts of several prominent liberal intellectuals and harassed rights lawyers...
UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world
Issued: May 13, 2013
ROME — The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible...
Builders bulldoze big Mayan pyramid in Belize
Issued: May 13, 2013
BELIZE CITY — A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract...
Pakistan's Sharif sends mixed message to US
Issued: May 13, 2013
RAIWIND, Pakistan — Pakistan's presumptive prime minister said Monday that he wants good relations with the United States but criticized American...
Putin and Netanyahu to discuss Syrian conflict
Issued: May 13, 2013
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin's talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Russia on Tuesday will focus on the situation in...
Big retailers back safety accord in Bangladesh
Issued: May 13, 2013
NEW YORK — Four of the world's biggest retailers agreed to sign a pact to improve safety at garment factories in Bangladesh nearly three weeks...
Critics lukewarm on US plans in Arctic
Issued: May 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — A new U.S. strategy for the Arctic region has gotten a lukewarm response from a think tank that says the plan amounts to a "lengthy...
Bangladesh collapse search over; death toll 1,127
Issued: May 13, 2013
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the...

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