Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan
Access to China's banking sector might be just one of many U.S.-Chinese tensions likely to arise amid the global recession. [more]
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  in New Delhi on Dec. 3
December 4, 2008 1544 GMT
Indian restraint in the wake of the Mumbai attacks cannot be taken for granted at this point. [more]
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Political and economic conditions could be right for Venezuela's student groups to present a real challenge to Chavez. [more]
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December 4, 2008 2148 GMT
Ecuador's government is looking into different ways to repudiate its debt, and President Rafael Correa intends to ask Iran for financing, Bloomberg reported Dec. 4, citing Ecuadorian Finance Minister Maria Elsa Viteri.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
December 4, 2008 0640 GMT
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be forced out by a confidence motion next Monday -- but the strange bedfellows that would form the government are not likely to coalesce for long. [more]
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Though the Mumbai attack may leap out as unique, it was not as original as it might seem. [more]
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November 26, 2008 1733 GMT
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