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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Nearly one month after a powerful earthquake brought this country to a halt, Haiti is tumbling headlong through a crisis that has not begun to abate, with evidence everywhere that current relief efforts are falling short.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist government.
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Iran’s formal notification Monday to a United Nations nuclear watchdog that it will begin producing higher-grade enriched uranium marks a new and potentially dangerous turn in Tehran’s confrontation with the West over its nuclear ambitions.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine waited for Yulia Tymoshenko Tuesday to contest a weekend presidential election or concede defeat and allow the winner, Viktor Yanukovich, to start piecing together a governing coalition in parliament.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will recall around 436,000 hybrid cars worldwide, including the 2010 Prius model, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.
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Toyota has recalled thousands of its hybrid Prius cars sold in Japan last year due to a brake problem.
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A revamp of the financial system needs to be global in nature to prevent a repeat of the worst financial crisis in some 70 years, a top Federal Reserve policy maker said on Monday.
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OAXACA, Mexico – A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast Monday, setting off evacuation alarms and swaying buildings as far away as Mexico City.
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A Russian company has bought an entire Latvian town, which once formed part of the Soviet Union’s air defences against NATO, complete with nightclubs, schools and apartment blocks.
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A political row is brewing over a controversial move to give Cherie Blair a peerage – making her the first Prime Minister’s spouse to be elevated to the Lords since Clementine Churchill.
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