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Times Staff and Wire Reports

South Korea’s Samsung Group said it hopes to reopen negotiations to take over the bankrupt Dutch aircraft maker Fokker, one day after Fokker’s receivers said talks broke down. . . . One of two holdout unions agreed to endorse a salary-slashing restructuring plan that could save Canadian Airlines International from bankruptcy. . . . Aided by sharp declines in Canadian interest rates, Canada’s economy grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.8% in the third quarter for an annualized growth rate of 3.3%, the fastest rate in nearly two years, the government said.

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