By JANE PERLEZ
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Pervez Musharraf is touring European capitals and plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday in a bid to show that he remains in charge of his troubled country, where his popular support has never been at such a low ebb.
On the tour, his […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
RÍO BRAVO, Mexico — These days, it is easy to form the impression that a war is going on in Mexico. Thousands of elite troops in battle gear stream toward border towns and snake through the streets in jeeps with .50-caliber machine guns mounted on top while fighter jets from […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By STEPHEN FARRELL
ARAB JABOUR, Iraq — From the blast and the high, thin plume of white smoke above the tree line, it looked and sounded like any other attack. The bare details were, sadly, routine enough: a gunner was killed and three crew members were wounded Saturday when their vehicle rolled over a homemade […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By VIKAS BAJAJ
Everyone wants to know who is to blame for the losses paining Wall Street and homeowners.
The answer, it seems, is someone else.
A wave of lawsuits is beginning to wash over the troubled mortgage market and the rest of the financial world. Homeowners are suing mortgage lenders. Mortgage lenders are suing Wall Street […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By DAVID STREITFELD
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Marty Ummel feels she paid too much for her house. So do millions of other people who bought at the peak of the housing boom.
What makes Ms. Ummel different is that she is suing her agent, saying it was all his fault.
Ms. Ummel claims that the agent hid the […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG — Stock markets across Asia plunged even farther and faster on Tuesday than on Monday — while stock markets in Europe also opened with further losses on Tuesday — as anxious sellers dumped huge numbers of shares on worries that an economic slowdown in the United States could drag down […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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