Marc Lacey: The fate of an American security consultant abducted in Mexico remains a mystery.
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A woman who had to embark on a monthly bureaucratic odyssey to get medication for her son won a Government-sponsored contest to identify Mexico's most useless red tape.
By ERIC SCHMITT
One of the dead was suspected of overseeing last September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital.
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
The American authorities have been investigating what appears to be collusion in the multibillion-dollar municipal bonds market.
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Ssangyong Motor Company became a casualty of the global economic downturn Friday, filing for receivership in a bid to stave off collapse.
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The European Union said gas supplies should resume shortly, after a deal was struck late Thursday with Ukraine and Russia.
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After the UN declared a suspension of aid operations in Gaza, the Red Cross said that it was temporarily restricting relief efforts in response to what it claimed was Israeli small arms fire on one of its trucks.
Transition in Washington
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The president-elect's economic recovery plan ran into cross-fire from his own party, suggesting that it could take more time to pass than hoped.
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China has bought more than $1 trillion in U.S. debt, but Beijing is starting to keep more of its money at home. Is America's economic well-being too closely tied to China?
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The IHT's executive editor, Alison Smale, discusses the week in world news.
Wall Street brought in 2009 on an upbeat note with equities roaring higher.
Israel rejects calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stepped up preparations for a ground offensive.
2008 sent energy prices on the ride of a lifetime, sending prices down 54 percent for the year.
Afghanistan's disabled population relies on physiotherapists like Alberto Cairo.
Music labels are embracing free ad-supported music models and all-you-can-download services.
As 2008 draws to a close, Iraqi forces prepare to take over from coalition forces on Jan. 1.
A French investment fund helping start-up companies in disadvantaged suburbs.
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