Posts Tagged ‘crisis’
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
Cuba’s government is taking steps to address the country’s housing crisis, brought on by a struggling economy and years of storm damage and neglect.

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VIDEO: Cuba’s crumbling housing crisis
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
IMF head Christine Lagarde urges Greeks to pay taxes, saying she worried more about the plight of sub-Saharan Africa than the crisis-hit European nation.

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IMF boss ups pressure on Greece
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
BERLIN — Supporters of major new measures to ease Europe’s economic crisis confronted a sinking realization Thursday: Their best chances for success might come only if the situation worsens. A French demand that the 17 countries that use the euro currency back one another’s borrowing has won new supporters in recent days, but it has been met with full-throated resistance from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose thrifty taxpayers would bear the biggest burden of any plan. Read full article > >

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Euro-zone countries appear far from compromise
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Leaders of Somalia’s disparate factions agree a historic deal to elect a new president by 20 August to end the country’s two-decade political crisis.

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Somalia’s leaders agree deadline
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Nick Clegg is to warn of the dangers of a Greek exit from the euro and describe the response to the crisis as “woefully fragmented”.

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Greek euro exit too risky – Clegg
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
The heads of the 27 European Union nations are meeting in Brussels to hear proposals to address the crisis in the currency zone.
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Euro Watch: Stocks Fall on Concerns About Euro Zone as E.U. Leaders Gather
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
The Bank of England’s supervisory court commissions three independent reviews into its performance during the financial crisis.

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Bank of England’s role examined
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
The European financial crisis is poorly understood in the United States.
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Frum: Yes, worry about the euro crisis
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
After crisis talks with Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki says the president is committed to security agreements with South Sudan.

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Sudan’s Bashir ‘ready for peace’
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York, after his escape to the US embassy in Beijing last month sparked a diplomatic crisis.

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China activist Chen lands in US
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Saturday, May 19th, 2012
Europe’s debt crisis is to top the agenda at the G8 summit in the US, amid fears that trouble in the eurozone could have global consequences.

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Eurozone set to dominate G8 talks
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Saturday, May 19th, 2012
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose stay at the US embassy caused a diplomatic crisis, leaves China on a plane heading for the US.

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China activist Chen heads for US
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Saturday, May 19th, 2012
UK PM David Cameron joins other world leaders at the G8 summit for talks set to focus on the eurozone crisis, amid signs a deal is unlikely to be reached.

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Cameron joins talks over eurozone
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
A telephone conversation on Friday between Germany’s chancellor and Greece’s president became the latest flashpoint in the unfolding crisis over Greece’s membership in the euro.
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Greece and Germany in War of Words Over Euro Crisis
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe. Thinking Arby's? Think again: A 14-year-old boy found a worker's fingertip in his roast beef. – USA Today Food is the new rock? Sammy Hagar says, “rock on.” – Food Republic One man, one beer, one chainsaw. – Gawker Wendy's new advertisement touting a “free, small, hot, original redhead” is not what you think it is. – Consumerist Staying skinny in butter-fueled Paris. – David Lebovitz

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Box lunch: One-digit sandwiches and hot redheads
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