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• IMF chief warns of global financial meltdown
President Bush huddled with economic chiefs from the G-7 — Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada — and officials from the IMF and World Bank, and said top industrial nations grasped the gravity of the crisis and would work together to ...
• Mexican pot cartels sully U.S. forests, parks
Then, officials say, tighter border controls after Sept. 11, 2001, forced industrial-scale growers to move their operations into the United States. Millions of dollars are spent every year to find and uproot marijuana-growing operations on state and ...
• After scandal, China tightens dairy regulations
Contaminated milk powder, laced with the industrial chemical melamine, has been blamed for causing the deaths of four infants and sickening more than 54,000 others. More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized with eight of them in serious ...
• Scandal forces reforms in China's dairy industry
Milk laced with the industrial chemical melamine has been blamed for the deaths of four babies and for sickening 54,000 others with kidney stones and other illnesses. Some 10,700 children across the country remain hospitalized, according to the ...
• Wall Street set to rally after global rate cut
While Dow Jones industrial average futures rose, markets in Europe rallied from steep losses but only nudged into positive territory. That’s a sign that investors realize that the stagnant credit markets and the economy remain extremely troubled ...