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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...

Portugal Seeks Bailout, Europe Debt Crisis Spreads

LISBON, Portugal -- Portugal asked for a bailout Wednesday to relieve its crushing debt, joining Greece and Ireland by becoming the third European nation to ask for outside help amid a bruising European financial crisis. Prime Minister Jose Socrates went on national television to announce that Portugal must take...

Some 200,000 in Germany Protest Nuclear Power

BERLIN -- Tens of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said. In Berlin alone more than 100,000 took to the capital's streets to urge Germany's leaders to immediately abolish...

The French: 'Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys' No More?

NICE, France -- The French downed one of Col. Moammar Gadhafi's planes early today in a series of strikes aimed at an air base deep within Libya -- six days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy pulled the trigger and French warplanes launched the no-fly zone. France "decided to assume its role before history," said...

EU to Apply Stress Tests on Its Nuclear Plants

BRUSSELS -- Shocked into action by Japan's atomic crisis, European energy officials agreed Tuesday to apply stress tests on nuclear power plants and Germany moved to switch off seven aging reactors - one of them permanently. The European Union's energy chief called for a reassessment of the 27-nation bloc's energy policy,...