Evangelos Venizelos was to be the third party chief to try to form a coalition from the fractious results of Sunday’s vote and to steer the debt-wracked country toward economic reform.

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Greeks Look to Socialist Leader Evangelos Venizelos to Form Government

The government has run out of “excuses” for the “failure” of its economic policy, Labour leader Ed Miliband says.

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Coalition ‘run out of excuses’

Research suggests President Obama’s mixed-race heritage can still be a powerful factor in economically distressed regions with high proportions of white working-class residents.

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4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters

The UK Border Force failed to meet its target for processing Heathrow arrivals from outside the European Economic Area 24% of the time in April, BAA says.

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Heathrow queue time target missed

Hundreds of Occupy protesters marched, chanted and scuffled with law enforcement officers in New York, San Francisco, Seattle and other cities around the world as they joined with labor activists to take part in a May Day “general strike” for economic equality Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Occupy protests underway in New York, D.C. and across globe; 30 arrested in N.Y.

KABUL — President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, landing on the one-year anniversary of the attack that killed Osama bin Laden and during a pivotal moment in U.S-Afghan relations, as the two countries look to define their military and economic ties beyond 2014. Read full article > >

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Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

It had been a long road, but when Sabrina Torres received her master’s degree in 2010, she was sure it would eventually pay off in a good job that would allow her to afford an apartment. She is still waiting. The American University graduate’s financial struggles have prevented her from living on her own, making her part of a dramatic slowdown in household formation that is both a consequence of the economic downturn and a continued obstacle to overcoming it. Read full article > >

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Fewer Americans form households after recession, hampering economic recovery

Representative Paul D. Ryan, the Republican Party’s de facto head of economic policy, may be one of its most important figures outside of Mitt Romney.

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The Ticket: Paul Ryan’s Kinetic Rise in G.O.P.

As the economic recovery has struggled to pick up speed, one of the biggest stumbling blocks has been job losses in state and local governments, which have been on the rise for much of President Obama’s term. Read full article > >

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Threat from mounting public job losses tested Obama’s economic strategy

US economic growth slowed to an annualised pace of 2.2% in the first quarter of the year, from 3% in the final three months of last year.

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US economic growth rate slowing

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke appeared skeptical that the nation’s jobs outlook would improve any time soon, but he stood staunchly by the Fed’s decision to keep interest rates near zero and to avoid any new actions to boost the economic recovery during a press conference Wednesday following the central bank’s two-day policy meeting. Read full article > >

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Fed rejects new action, sees mixed signals on economy

Could congestion offer a road to economic growth?

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Could congestion offer a road to economic growth?

Syria’s remaining cash reserves are quickly dwindling as the country’s anti-government uprising marks its 13th month , according to intelligence officials and financial analysts who describe a steady hollowing-out of the country’s economy in the face of sanctions. Read full article > >

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Syria running out of cash as sanctions take toll, but Assad avoids economic pain

Decades of increasing Mexico-US immigration have come to an end, a report says, citing tough border control and economic conditions in both nations.

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Mexico-US migration on the slide

India cannot get enough fuel to run power plants, and the problem has contributed significantly to a second year of slowing economic growth in the country.

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India Struggles to Dig Up Enough Fuel to Power Growth