VENEZUELA: Quest for consensus may prove short-lived

President Hugo Chavez replaced 13 ministers, including Vice-President Jorge Rodriguez, during the...

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UNITED STATES: Wall Street's profit hopes are too rosy

After four years of double-digit growth, US corporate profits have begun to decline because of...

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While pre-1989 nostalgia is widespread among the older and less affluent in all post-communist EU...

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Growing public discontent reflects the authorities' inability to maintain incomes since Russia's...

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Economic growth is under threat from mounting problems in the United States.

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Germany's Lufthansa yesterday announced plans to create 4,300 new jobs in 2008. This comes as...

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Owing its original strength to the Soviet-era emphasis on heavy industries, metallurgy has always...

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The attempts taken to deal with Hungary's economic crisis have been half-hearted and Prime...

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The outlook for peace, political stability and economic growth in most of Southern Africa remains...

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Several risk factors, including the uncertain outlook for the US economy, imported food-price...

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