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Brazilian named to head World Trade Organization
SAO PAULO, Brazil--Roberto Azevedo of Brazil has been elected the first Latin American director-general of the World Trade Organization, the global body charged with moving forward stalled trade agreement talks. The choice of Azevedo over close rival...
Tags: Mexico, Trade Agreements, Trade Dispute, Politics, World Trade Organization
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Good fences make safe lions
During the 1960s, when most African nature reserves were being established, lions tended to be born free. But today, freedom doesn't always serve them well. Fifty years ago, human population densities were low in the areas where lions roamed. But...
Tags: Africa, National Parks, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Tanzania
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Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs
The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...
Tags: Trade Agreements, Leukemia, Trade Dispute, Drugs and Medicines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Bid to ban commercial trade in polar bears fails
An unusual coalition between the U.S. and Russia to win an international ban on commercial trade of polar bear parts failed Thursday. Meeting in Bangkok, delegates to the 176-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted down a U....
Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Trade Agreements, Trade Dispute
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Hugo Chavez: Admired and despised by readers
For just as many reasons readers found to sneer at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer, others found reasons to praise the late strongman. While several readers slammed Chavez for behaving like a dictator and...
Tags: Trade Agreements, North American Free Trade Agreement, Jimmy Carter, Poverty, Trade Dispute
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U.S.-Mexico tomato trade agreement finalized
After months of wrangling, the U.S. and Mexico signed a new tomato trade agreement late Monday, officially suspending an antidumping investigation of fresh tomatoes from south of the border and raising floor prices for Mexican tomatoes. The agreement,...
Tags: U.S. Department of Commerce, Mexico, Trade Agreements, Trade Policy, Tomatoes
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A.W. 'Tom' Clausen dies at 89; longtime Bank of America leader
A.W. "Tom" Clausen, a no-nonsense Midwesterner who led San Francisco-based Bank of America before and after serving as president of the World Bank, died Monday at a hospital in Burlingame, Calif. He was 89. The cause was complications from pneumonia,...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Pneumonia, Jimmy Carter, International Organizations
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McManus: Obama's less-is-more agenda
President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, the first of his second term, won't be long remembered. It didn't offer much in the way of new ideas. It was short on memorable lines — except, perhaps, his demand for congressional action on gun...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Elections, Trade Agreements, Gun Control, Public Finance
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Tour bus crash: Federal investigators looking at maintenance records
L.A. NOWFederal officials spent Tuesday scouring a San Diego-area bus company's office, interviewing the owner and taking maintenance records as part of their investigation into the tour bus crash on California 38 that killed seven and injured dozens more.... -
Tour bus crash: Residents smelled burning brakes, heard horn
L.A. NOWResidents of the San Bernardino Mountain community of Mountain Home Village heard a bus roar by Sunday night, its horn honking, and smelled burning brakes in its wake. Moments later, it would hit a car, fall on its side and...... -
Tomato prices to rise if U.S-Mexico trade agreement ends, study says
Retail prices for tomatoes may double if a trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico ends, according to a study released Thursday by a tomato importing group. The possible price hike is the result of a brewing trade war between Florida tomato...
Tags: Trade Agreements, Mexico, Tomatoes
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Climate talks buffeted by the force of Superstorm Sandy
More than 17,000 people have converged on the Qatari capital for the latest U.N. climate talks, but the most influential presence may be Sandy. The superstorm that ravaged the U.S. Northeast a month ago seared into the American consciousness an...Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Weather, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Automotive Equipment
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