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• Chinese lawyers pressured to drop milk cases
The government has been struggling to show the public that it is dealing successfully with the scandal, which has battered the country’s image, so carefully cultivated during the Beijing Olympics. At least four babies have died and more than 54,000 ...
• Iceland teeters on the brink of bankruptcy
The government had earlier announced it had nationalized the bank under emergency laws enacted to deal with the crisis. “We have been forced to take decisive action to save the country,” Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde said of those sweeping new ...
• Scientists go online to discuss drugs with kids
ROCKVILLE, Md. - It's nothing to LOL about. Students these days often have ready access to marijuana, alcohol and tobacco but they don't feel comfortable talking about the ramifications. So, some of the nation's government scientists went to the ...
• EU reaches agreement on tackling bank crisis
EU governments have been trying to restore confidence after a series of government bank bailouts and a cascade of individual moves by countries to increase deposit guarantees, in some cases to 100 percent of deposits. Markets plunged Monday on fears ...
• AIG execs hid risks from auditors, panel finds
... Group Inc. hid from its auditors the full range of risky practices at its financial products division even as losses mounted, according to documents obtained by a congressional panel examining Tuesday the chain of events that forced the government to ...