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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 ...
• Afghan refugees flee Pakistan war zone
An Afghan community leader in Khar, Bajur's main town, urged the government to provide transportation for the refugees. "We are poor people, and we don't have enough money to pay for the buses," Ghulam Jan told an AP reporter. Authorities were ...
• Mexico extradites ex-Guatemalan president
Guatemalan Attorney General Amilcar Velazquez told The Associated Press that Portillo arrived early Tuesday on a Mexican government plane. Portillo was Guatemala's leader from 2000 to 2004 before fleeing to Mexico. He is accused of authorizing $15 ...
• A new, more powerful Fed emerges in crisis
Radical steps by the Fed under chairman Ben Bernanke — all in the name of seeking to halt the panic sweeping financial markets — are turning it into a financial colossus. They're also putting the government deeper in debt and taxpayers further at ...
• 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 ...