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Europe summit surprises with bold moves

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti leaves an EU Summit in Brussels on Friday, June 29, 2012. European leaders have agreed to use the continent's...

Academic panel says Romanian PM plagiarized

BUCHAREST, Romania An academic panel has ruled that Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta plagiarized large sections of his doctoral thesis and called for...

Walgreen to spend $6.7B on Alliance Boots stake

FILE -- In a Sept. 27, 2010 file photo shows a woman pushing a baby carriage past the entrance of a Walgreens pharmacy in...

UK treasurer: Euro crisis is killing our recovery

LONDON Britain's Treasury chief says that uncertainty over the future of Europe's single currency is threatening to keep Britain from returning to economic...

US worker productivity fell 0.9 pct. annual rate

FILE- In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Thomas Warren installs a fuel cell on a Freightliner truck at a plant in Cleveland,...

Wal-Marts proxy vote shows dissent against execs

In this Friday, June 1, 2012, file photo, Mike Duke, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. speaks during the annual Wal-Mart shareholders'...

Chinese developer unveils replica Austrian village

A worker spray water on plants at an European-style houses in Hallstatt See, a replica of the Austrian town of Hallstatt, in Boluo county,...

Ukraine corporate raids stifle foreign investment

KIEV, Ukraine Yuri Leshchinsky spent more than a decade transforming an ailing Soviet-era factory into a leading candy maker. When a board meeting...

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