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Belgium tries to resolve budget, political troubles

By Paul Ames, Special for USA TODAY

Amid Europe's worst economic crisis in generations, Belgium has gone for more than 530 days without a fully functioning government.

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Spain elects conservative in response to debt crisis

By Evangeline O'Regan, Special for USA TODAY

Spanish voters kicked out the Socialist government Sunday in elections seen as a referendum on the handling of the European debt crisis.

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Greek vote on debt deal puts plans in doubt

By Jabeen Bhatti, Ruby Russell and Nikolia Apostolou, Special for USA TODAY

Greece's prime minister's call for a public referendum on the debt deal was met Tuesday with shock.

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Ex-IMF chief returns home to France

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of attempted rape in U.S., but the case was dropped.

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Isabel Allende said. "I don't want to return to that epoch – I want things to be called what they are." Chile's Socialist Party leader, Osvaldo Andrade, put it more colourfully: "It has the ears of a cat, the body of a cat, miaow like a cat and some

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Isabel Allende said. "I don't want to return to that epoch - I want things to be called what they are." Chile's Socialist Party leader, Osvaldo Andrade, put it more colorfully: "It has the ears of a cat, the body of a cat, meows like a cat and some people