Those betting against debt-burdened Greece and the euro aren't just hedge funds and speculators looking for fast profits, but also corporations, asset managers and banks seeking to protect themselves.
Fears are rising that Thailand's embattled prime minister will launch a military crackdown after protesters stormed the nation's Parliament and the government declared a state of emergency.
The U.S. Treasury secretary will meet China's vice premier in Beijing, a surprise meeting amid speculation that China is considering adjusting its exchange-rate policy.
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Popular Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political party said it is backing a controversial Shiite leader—not either of the country's leading politicians—to become the country's next prime minister.
The World Bank and four regional development banks plan to jointly blacklist any company that one of the banks finds guilty of graft or collusion.
Relations between Turkey and Israel, already at a low point, took a further battering Wednesday when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Israel as "the principal threat to peace" in the Middle East.
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Global companies are betting Indonesia will become Asia's next big consumer market after China and India—in part because of booming second-tier cities fueled by sales of coal, gas and palm oil.
A nuclear summit in Washington next week will seek stricter controls on the underground market the U.S. and allies fear terrorists and states such as Iran could use to build atomic weapons.
The South Korean naval patrol boat that sank last month near the North Korean border was torn apart by an external explosion, surviving members of its crew said Wednesday in their first public appearance.
Federal prosecutors in Germany have charged two men with delivering to Iran embargoed tools intended to build missiles capable of carrying a nuclear payload.
France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, went on national radio to quench talk that an international plot was behind recent infidelity rumors within the presidential couple.
China's central government launched a nationwide crackdown on safety violations in mines and other high-risk work places.
Norway's Catholic Church revealed that a bishop who resigned last year did so after admitting he had molested a child years earlier, when he was a priest.
Protests that left at least 47 people dead toppled the government in this strategically important Central Asian nation, opposition leaders said, disrupting operations at a key U.S. supply base for the Afghan war.
Space shuttle Discovery successfully docked at the International Space Station, its astronauts overcoming a rare antenna breakdown that knocked out radar tracking.
A Spanish judge who led the emergence of cross-border justice by pursuing South American dictators and Islamic terrorists was charged with having manipulated the course of justice when investigating atrocities linked to the Spanish Civil War.
In the rural villages and seaside towns of southwest England, a crucial second front is opening up in the U.K. general election between the two main opposition parties: the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
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The organizers of Hainan Rendez-Vous at the island's Sanya resort did their part to boost the area's image this past weekend with an extravaganza of private jets, top-end autos, luxury properties and yachts.
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Britain's national election was set for May 6, kicking off an intense battle between two major parties with sharply different plans to fix the U.K's battered economy and giant deficit.
While Britons tell pollsters they want change, they seem uncertain about what form it should take.
Torrential rains in Rio de Janeiro triggered landslides that killed 81 people bringing the future host city of the Olympics and football World Cup to a near halt Tuesday.
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Spain is putting off too many problems, making it more vulnerable when the inevitable crisis in its over-stretched savings banks occurs.
A sad anniversary, the eight-month mark of the detention of three young American hikers in Iran, passed this week.
You'd think a developing country inviting reporters to cover a trade and investment conference would let them cross the border. Sorry, that's just not Libya.
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