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• Mumbai attack puts focus on Pakistan
In a worst-case scenario, it could push India's government to mobilize troops along the border or even bomb militant targets within Pakistan. The only surviving gunman told police he is Pakistani and trained at a Lashkar camp in Pakistan, according to ...
• Enter Geithner, pursued by a bear
Obviously, this was a good thing, but there was also something weird about the spectacle of the Street’s once fearless free marketeers exulting over a government appointment, as if they were nomenklatura members cheering a new Politburo chief. It ...
• Thai PM unable to quell growing crisis
Anti-government protesters block  the main entrance to the Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok on Monday. Since the protesters seized the airport last Tuesday, all commercial flights have been suspended in and out of the city. BANGKOK, Thailand ...
• Brazil leader asks God to halt rains
Silva said the government may let people take money from their mandatory unemployment accounts to rebuild homes and businesses destroyed by mudslides, and said state-owned Banco do Brasil SA may offer special loans for farmers hit hard by the floods. ...
• Bush administration ignored clear warnings
The administration’s blind eye to the impending crisis is emblematic of a philosophy that trusted market forces and discounted the need for government intervention in the economy. Its belief ironically has ushered in the most massive government ...