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CNN
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The value of the Zimbabwean dollar suffered its worst crash in memory, dealers said Thursday, sparking a run on dollars and forcing stores to close early to put new prices on their meager stock.
Black market exchange rates -- fueled by the central bank..
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FOX News
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China surpassed the United States as the world's second-largest exporter in the middle of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the World Trade Organization, and the Asian country is pulling further and further ahead.
Export growth from..
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BBC News
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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York led a procession through London to mark the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade.
Dr Rowan Williams and Dr John Sentamu were joined by foreign dignitaries and leaders of other churches for t..
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BBC News
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Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests...
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SF Gate
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The top U.S. and South Korean trade envoys broke off talks without resolving a crisis over the resumption of American beef shipments that has shaken South Korea's pro-U.S. government.
South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon, who flew into Washington..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Last week, a trade union badly damaged the legitimacy of collective action - and achieved nothing. By going on strike after having won almost all its demands, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers closed down the London Underground fo..
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BBC News
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South Africa's main trade unions have ended their four-week strike, which has closed most of the country's schools and hospitals.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has decided to accept the government's offer of a 7.5% pay rise - they..
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BBC News
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Nigeria's main cities are reported to be very quiet on the first day of a general strike called by trade unions.
Office blocks are empty in central Lagos, with long queues at petrol stations. Schools and offices are shut in the northern city of Kano...
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BBC News
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African countries have agreed a deal on the immediate future of the ivory trade.
Southern African nations will be permitted a further one-off sale of legally-acquired ivory from stockpiles, with funds going for conservation.
No further sales will th..
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BBC News
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African nations failed to find a compromise on the ivory trade after negotiations continued into the early hours at a wildlife trade meeting.
Southern African countries want to expand ivory exports, other nations want a complete ban for many years...
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CNN
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African nations struggled to find a compromise Monday for managing the ivory trade and elephant populations, which are exploding in some countries on the continent and being poached to their limits in others.
European mediators at the talks suggested t..
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BBC News
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Elephants and the ivory trade come under the spotlight as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) summit opens.
Just prior to the opening, a committee voted that a limited sale of stockpiled ivory from southern Africa to Jap..
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USA Today
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The oversight body on international wildlife trade agreed Saturday to a one-time sale of 60 tons of banned ivory from southern Africa to Japan, despite critics' fears it would lead to increased poaching of endangered elephants.
The 60 tons of ivory com..
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News.com.au
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AFRICAN states have called for a 20-year ban on trade in ivory to protect the continent's elephants from poachers and possible extinction in the wild.
Kenya and Mali, which spearheaded the moratorium along with Togo and Ghana, are seeking to have the m..
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Alter Net
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An unlikely dissident from the Ivy League's economic establishment has come forward with a proposal to reform globalization.
The church of global free trade, which rules American politics with infallible pretensions, may have finally met its Martin Lut..
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CNN
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Japan's trade minister said on Friday the government would order special inspections of some nuclear power plants after recent revelations of past safety missteps, possibly leading to longer-than-planned operation halts.
Akira Amari of the Ministry of..
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Los Angeles Times
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CHINA'S FITFUL transition from communism to something approaching a market economy presents unique challenges to both the Chinese and their trading partners. When U.S.-China tensions flare — as they have recently — Washington and Beijing should keep t..
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FOX News
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The United States and South Korea successfully concluded a free trade agreement after almost 10 months of contentious negotiations, a U.S. official said Monday.
The deal, which requires legislative approval in both countries, is the biggest for the Uni..
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USA Today
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The United States and South Korea struggled to save a proposed free trade agreement in extended high-level talks on Sunday, after failing to conclude the deal by an original U.S.-imposed deadline.
"They're still looking at options and figuring out if t..
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CNN
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Turquoise fish with red dots stare at hungry tourists from a tank at a restaurant in Hong Kong, the capital of the world's live reef fish industry, a lucrative trade devastating reefs across the Pacific Ocean.
Considered a delicacy, demand for coral fi..
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