China won’t use ‘rare earths’ as a bargaining chip

China won’t use ‘rare earths’ as a bargaining chip China bid to defuse a percolating crisis Thursday, vowing not to use “rare earth” minerals as a bargaining chip in world trade discussions and not to cut exports any more next year, state-run media reported. Earlier this month, reports surfaced that China has significantly decreased imports […]

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Swiss plan controls on ‘suicide tourism’

It has long been the final destination for terminally ill patients who want to end their lives, offering what many consider to be a dignified way out of their suffering. It featured scenes of a worried Roach pleading with his fighter to move their training camp from Baguio as another typhoon was forecast to land.

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Mugabe: Zimbabwe sanctions illegal, unjustified

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Thursday condemned “unjustified” Western sanctions against his country saying they were being used to force him from power. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Mugabe said he would use an address to the United Nations General Assembly this week to call for their lifting.

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Just A Few Hours to Save the World at the G-20

To what extent has the outcome of today’s meeting of 19 leading economies and the European Union already been agreed? That’s the $2 trillion question. The sum is the proposed level of fiscal stimulus by G-20 nations identified in an early leaked draft of the final communiqué expected later today.

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