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Major Economies Pledge Support for Regime Changes

WASHINGTON -- The world's major economies neared an agreement Friday on how to measure the types of dangerous imbalances that contributed to the worst global downturn in seven decades. After an all-night negotiating session, officials said that they had resolved key issues that had blocked implementation of a rebalancing...

Congress Measure Against Wolves Seen as Precedent

BILLINGS, Mont. -- The White House is poised to accept a budget bill that includes an unprecedented end-run around Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in five Western states - the first time Congress has targeted a species protected under the 37-year-old law. Lawmakers describe the provision in the spending...

Burt's Bees Founder Wants to Donate National Park

TOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8, Maine -- Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt's Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine's fabled North Woods -- and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses. Quimby...

London to Host Political Meeting on Libya

BRUSSELS -- U.S., European, and Arab and African officials have been invited to London next week for political talks about Libya, even as NATO remained deadlocked Wednesday over its role in enforcing a no-fly zone meant to protect Libyan civilians. France and Britain, in announcing the London talks, appeared to be laying...

World Intervenes in Libya, With Unusual Speed

PARIS -- In diplomatic terms, international military action against Libya's leader went from the brainstorming stage to the shooting-at-tanks stage with stunning speed. Saturday's launch of military strikes by French, British and U.S. forces with Arab backing and U.N. mandate was not universally endorsed. And it's unclear...