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submitted by bafficio 14 months ago, from latimes.com
Presidents Obama and Dmitry Medvedev's summit yields agreements on building closer cooperation on military and health issues. Russia will let the U.S. use its airspace in the Afghanistan war. Stepping cautiously in their first summit meeting, President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev... More
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submitted by rodeox 21 months ago, from latimes.com
Senior military leaders took the exceptional step of briefing President Bush this week on a severe and widespread electronic attack on Defense Department computers that may have originated in Russia -- an incursion that posed unusual concern among commanders and raised potential implications for... More
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submitted by eooties 21 months ago, from nytimes.com
Facing the gravest economic crisis in decades, the leaders of 20 countries agreed Saturday to work together to revive their economies, but they put off thornier decisions about how to overhaul financial regulations until next year, providing a serious early challenge for the Obama administration. More
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submitted by riverdrops 22 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Russia will deploy short-range missiles near Poland to counter U.S. military plans in Eastern Europe, President Dmitry Medvedev warned Wednesday, setting a combative tone that clashed with global goodwill over Barack Obama's election. In his first state of the nation speech, Medvedev blamed... More
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submitted by chiasma 22 months ago, from telegraph.co.uk
The Prime Minister wants dozens of world leaders to meet for a major one-off summit where they would rewrite the rules of international capitalism that have stood since 1944. The foundations of the current world financial and economic system were laid at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in 1944. More
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submitted by bafficio 23 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
Governments around the world took unprecedented steps Sunday to rescue the global financial system, with major European powers unveiling a united plan to prevent further bank failures while Australia and New Zealand moved to calm panicked investors by guaranteeing deposits before stock markets... More
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submitted by eooties 23 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted on Monday as saying it was time for British combat forces to leave the south of the country because they were no longer needed to maintain security and control. More
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submitted by rodeox 23 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth. Investors took scant comfort from Washington's passage of a US$700 billion plan to buy bad assets from... More
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submitted by rodeox 23 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Germany joined Ireland and Greece on Sunday in guaranteeing all private bank accounts, putting Europe's biggest economy at odds with calls for a unified European response to the global financial meltdown. The decision came as governments across Europe scrambled to save failing banks, working... More
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submitted by rodeox 24 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin left open the option Thursday of waging war with Russia if it were to invade neighboring Georgia and the former Soviet republic were a NATO ally. "We will not repeat a Cold War," Palin said in her first television interview since becoming Republican John McCain's vice... More
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submitted by trippie48 24 months ago, from ft.com
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, agreed to dismantle Russian checkpoints in Georgia and replace its troops with 200 EU monitors by October 1. More
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submitted by grandie4 24 months ago, from reuters.com
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he suspected unnamed persons in the United States had provoked the conflict in Georgia in an attempt to help a candidate in the U.S. presidential election. Putin said Moscow suspected that U.S. nationals were present in the war zone in Georgia.. More
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submitted by chiasma 24 months ago, from nytimes.com
Russia formally recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in a challenge to the West, which backs Georgia's territorial integrity. More
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submitted by blueheat 24 months ago, from ap.google.com
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an infuriated Russia to threaten its former Soviet satellite. The deal to install 10 U.S. interceptor missiles just 115 miles from Russia's.. More
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submitted by eooties 24 months ago, from reuters.com
NATO agreed after U.S. pressure on Tuesday to freeze regular contacts with Russia until Moscow had withdrawn its troops from Georgia in line with a peace deal. The alliance also agreed to upgrade contacts with Tbilisi but stopped short of accelerating its efforts to join NATO, an ambition... More
