G20 leaders in Cannes end their summit with a plan to boost growth and rebalance the global economy.

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G20 agrees to boost IMF resources

President Obama will travel this week to the Group of 20 summit in France as the leader of a nation that no longer has the global responsibility or the burden it once did.

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White House Memo: America’s Waning Influence Has a Silver Lining

Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities around the world, as demonstrators demand reform of the global financial system.

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Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities around the world, as demonstrators demand reform of the global financial system.

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VIDEO: ‘Occupy’ protests spread across the world

The International Monetary Fund warns that the global financial system is more vulnerable now than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis.

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IMF warns of new threat to banks

US and European shares decline as concerns continue about eurozone debts and the strength of the global economy.

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US and Europe shares fall further

Christopher W. Ullman, the global head of communications for the Carlyle Group, is also a four-time international whistling champion.

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DealBook: Puckering Up, With a Piano Concerto at His Lips

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in China and began talks with Vice President Xi Jinping of China that will focus on the global economy, trade and currency.

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Cooperation Is Emphasized as Biden Opens Talks in China

Corruption in the global arms industry is systemic and widespread, says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

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Arms trade is corrupt, says Sipri

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 agree a set of “indicative guidelines” to measure potential risks to the global economy.

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G20 agrees ways to measure risk

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 agree a set of “indicative guidelines” to measure potential risks to the global economy.

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G20 agrees ways to measure risk

Some European banks need bigger capital cushions to stop them being a risk to the global financial system, the IMF warns.

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IMF warns European banks on funds

Japan’s nuclear disaster, the latest blow to the global growth prospects, led to heavy selling in equities.

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Stocks Slump Worldwide as Investors Flee Risk

When historians in future years grapple with the significance of the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in Egypt 10 days ago, coming as it did in the wake of the “Jasmine” January 14 Revolution in Tunisia, they may judge it not only as a seismic event, shattering and renewing the Arab political order, but also the key watershed moment in confronting the global al Qaeda threat.

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Make-or-break moment for al Qaeda

The finance ministers from the Group of 20 economic powers reached a compromise, after pressuring China, on how to track imbalances in the global economy.

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As G20 Leaders Set Deal, Geithner Criticizes China