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    Canadian foster care in crisis, experts say

    Child advocates are warning of a deepening crisis across the country as some children are placed in foster care without full safety checks while others wind up in supervised apartments or overcrowded homes. More...
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    Dow average closes within 50 points of 13,000 (AP)

    AP - The Dow edged teasingly close to the 13,000 marker on Friday, a milestone it hasn't reached since before the financial crisis brought the U.S. economy to its knees. More...
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    Marois attacks Harper, rallies PQ

    Pauline Marois lashes out at Ottawa in bid to regroup after fractitious leadership crisis. More...
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    Amid crisis, Pakistan president travels to Dubai (AP)

    AP - Pakistan's president left the country Thursday for what was described as a one-day private visit to Dubai, amid a deepening crisis between the government and the powerful military, officials said. More...
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    Attawapiskat chief, Duncan to discuss housing crisis

    The chief of a remote Ontario reserve struggling with a housing crisis will meet with Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan Thursday in Thunder Bay to discuss the "urgent needs" of the people living in Attawapiskat. More...
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    Move by central banks exhilarates Wall Street (AP)

    AP - A move by the world's central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 490 points and easing fears of a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. More...
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    France and Germany to propose changing EU treaties (AP)

    AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared to temper his calls for the European Central Bank to play a bigger role in solving Europe's debt crisis as he agreed to a German effort to unite the troubled 17-nation eurozone more closely. More...
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    Europe faces key test in debt crisis (AP)

    AP - European leaders rushed to Brussels Wednesday facing colossal pressure to do what they have failed to in numerous previous meetings: produce a comprehensive solution to the continent's increasingly unmanageable debt crisis. More...
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    Grand plan to solve euro crisis in doubt (AP)

    AP - A grand plan to resolve Europe's escalating debt crisis is once again in doubt after officials decided Tuesday that key parts of the package will not be ready in time for a leaders' summit on Wednesday. More...
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    Three tips for a better Anonymous

    Has the Anonymous movement reached a midlife crisis? More...
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    A timeline of Greece's financial crisis

    (CNN) -- Greece's economy has been in a mostly downward spiral since the country joined the euro in 2001. While their eurozone peers had expressed their concern about the state of the Greek economy for years, it wasn't until the global financial crisis hit that the depth of the problem was...
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    Ivory Coast forces disperse protesters

    -- Ivory Coast security forces loyal to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo used tear gas and fired into the air to disperse supporters of Alassane Ouattara, authorities said Saturday. Casualties could not be confirmed. The international community has pressed incumbent Gbagbo to relinquish...
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    Crisis, what crisis, says Ranieri

    Roma coach Claudio Ranieri insisted his team were not in crisis despite losing for the third game in a row in the 3-2 Champions League defeat at home to Shakhtar Donetsk here. The Italians were made to pay by Shakhtar's speedy Brazilian forwards who combined for three goals and ensured the...
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    Top banks close doors in Ivory Coast

    -- Two leading Ivory Coast banks closed their doors this week, raising fears that a money shortage will worsen the crisis in the West African nation. Mounting security concerns prompted BICICI and Citibank to suspend operations Monday. Paris-based BNP Paribas, parent of BICICI, issued a...
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    Fears of new food crisis as prices soar

    A protester on the streets of Maputo, Mozambique on September 2 following demonstrations over food and fuel prices. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/11/17/chiou.china.inflation.shoppers.cnn The bill for global food imports will top $1,000bn this year for the second time ever...
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    Germany attacks US economic policy

    Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's finance minister, has strong words for U.S. policy making. Germany has put itself on a collision course with the US over the global economy, after its finance minister launched an extraordinary attack on policies being pursued in Washington. Wolfgang Schäuble...
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    Russia says euro must be stabilized

    Russia says euro must be stabilized MESEBERG, Germany, (UPI) -- Russia's president says Europe needs to stabilize the euro or face the possibility of a financial crisis worse than the 2008 recession. Dmitry Medvedev made the remarks in Meseberg, Germany, RIA Novosti reported Saturday. "This...
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    Clashes break out at Greek crisis protests

    ATHENS, Greece – Police fired tear gas and clashed with demonstrators in Athens after some 50,000 people finished a peaceful march against cutbacks intended to fix the country's debt crisis. The violence lasted about 30 minutes, when scores of youths hurled rocks, red paint and plastic bottles...
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