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  Front row (L-R), Australian Prime Minister Julie Gillard, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda; second row from left Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, Republic of Korea President Lee Myung-bak, Mexican Trade...

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President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where...

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Women’s Law Center’s Annual Awards dinner in Washington November 9, 2011. With Europe mired in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the US economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs...

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Investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet receives the Medal of Freedom from President Obama at the White House in Washington, February 15, 2011. When Irish rockers U2 took to the main stage at this year’s Glastonbury music festival, a small but vocal group of activists raised a large balloon emblazoned with the words...

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A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado April 20, 2011. Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc, whose proposed buy of T-Mobile USA is under scrutiny by US regulators, promised to bring 5,000 wireless call-center jobs back to the United States if the deal wins approval. The company has not decided where...

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An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey sparked a massive fire and killed at least 52 people, the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon said Thursday. Mexico offered a reward of $2.4 million for information leading to the arrest of armed men who torched a casino, leaving 52 people to burn...

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Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech before survivors of the earthquake and tsunami during his visit at Sendai airport in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, August 23, 2011. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Japan’s quake-hit northeast on Tuesday and said the country would recover from the disaster just as the United...

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  A top US trade official on Tuesday said he urged Vietnam to undo a number of trade-restrictive policies aimed at curbing inflation and reducing the country’s current account deficit. "We appreciate that they’re trying to stabilize their macroeconomy, but the point that we made in our meetings...

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The United States and the world struggled to come to grips with the first-ever US credit rating downgrade, as Washington is held to account for months of political acrimony and years of swelling US debt. The White House has called for an end to the political gridlock blamed for the first-ever US credit rating downgrade as allies...

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Somali refugees fetch water at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya on July 31, 2011. The head of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, blamed the famine in Africa’s Horn of Africa region on climate change and "our collective failure to end the Somali civil war." "While this is a tragedy triggered...

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