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MEMBER INFORMATION: Chile and the WTO - This page gathers key information on Chile's participation in the WTO. Chile has been a WTO member since 1 January ...
The Chicago rally for gay marriage started as a quiet gathering in Federal Plaza. The gay men’s chorus sang a few songs and a number of speakers from the city and visiting from California spoke abou...
The government will borrow a record $550 billion in the current quarter as it scrambles to fund the huge rescue programs being put in place to deal with the worst financial crisis in seven decades.
NEW YORK (CBS) ― JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Friday became the latest major bank to beef up its mortgage modification efforts as the government also considers a plan to help homeowners avoid fo...
Santiago - The Llaima volcano erupted in southern Chile, near the border with Argentina, spewing lava down one of its slopes towards Cherquenco, in the municipality of Vilcun, some 85 kilometres north of the Chilean city of Temuco. About 25 people we...
A top Bolivian official on Friday accused the United States of backing armed anti-government groups in a violent jungle clash that left 15 people dead last month.
A New Mexico sheriff plans to serve in office after being sworn in even though he quietly resigned just days before winning re-election, administrators said.
NYPD hunts for 2 gunmen in beauty salon killing Police hunted Tuesday for two gunmen who burst into a Brooklyn beauty salon, killing a 20-year-old man and wounding four bystanders _ including an off-d...
Wall Street finished sharply lower Monday as investors pored over more signs of economic weakness, including a huge round of layoffs in the financial sector.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who broke with the Republican party to endorse Barack Obama, called Obama's election as the country's first black president "historic" and said he would be a president for all Americans.
Bank of Miami couldn’t shake its losses in the third quarter as it fought through more problem loans. Formerly known as the International Bank of Miami, the Coral Gables-based institution was t...
Zeppelins, the giant floating airships used to carry passengers and drop bombs until the 1930s, haven't been seen in American skies for more than 70 years.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said Thursday as the marathon presidential r...
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama highlights Vice President Dick Cheney's support for Republican nominee John McCain in a new ad out Sunday.
Johannesburg - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday it had been forced to reduce its food rations to millions of hungry people in Zimbabwe due to a lack of funding. In an update on its feeding programme in Zimbabwe, the WFP said ...
WHAT: As the holiday season approaches, officials at Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (C&BP) will ...
A growing center: Voters seek pragmatism, not ideology, from Latin American leaders, such as the leftists featured on a banner at a recent protest march at the Ibero American Summit in San Salvador.
Has retail patriarch and larger-than-life Reading philanthropist Albert R. Boscov pulled off the miracle that saves his father's legacy - and the nation's oldest family-owned department store chain? ...
London, Nov.18 : One of Britain's most authoritative judicial figures on Monday accused both Britain and the United States of acting like "world vigilantes".