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• Canadians vote but polls suggest little change
Both polls and pundits predicted another minority government for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper, who has had a tenuous hold on power since the 2006 election and is forced to rely on the opposition to pass legislation, called the vote in hopes ...
• Dozens killed in road accidents in India
NEW DELHI - A series of road accidents killed at least 48 people and injured another 64 in north and northeastern India on Tuesday, government officials and police said. At least 20 people were killed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand when ...
• Lacking accord, U.S. and Iraq seek a plan B
The government-sanctioned Iranian media have charged repeatedly that Washington is trying to force Maliki to sell out Iraqi sovereignty. Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr , with a bloc of supporters in Iraq's parliament and a powerful militia ...
• Doubt, anger over dams on Amazon tributary
For the Brazilian government, this is prudent preparation, more than six years in planning, for a burgeoning economy's appetite for electricity. The two dams, the $5 billion Santo Antonio and the planned Jirau dam, will eventually produce 6,450 ...
• U.K. government to partially nationalize banks
LONDON - British banking stocks soared Wednesday after the government announced a 50 billion pound ($88 billion) plan to partly nationalize major banks and promised to guarantee a further 250 billion pounds ($438 billion) of bank loans to shore up ...