 German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, right, attend a press conference after a France Germany summit at the Charles de Gaulle's museum and memorial on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 in Colombey Les Deux Eglises, eastern France.Sarkozy and Merkel are meeting for a France-Germany summit a day before the Paris Eurogroup Summit on the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Jeff Pachoud, Pool) Partner Site
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Europe Unified On Proposal to Protect Banks
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Ex-President Of Finland Is Awarded Peace Prize (Post, October 11, 2008; Page A16)
Ex-President Of Finland Is Awarded Peace Prize (Post, October 11, 2008; Page A16)
NATO to Target Afghan Drug Lords Who Aid Taliban (Post, October 11, 2008; Page A16)
Asian, European Stocks Plummet (Post, October 10, 2008; 8:24 AM)
Gates Urges NATO to Take On Afghan Drug Traffickers (Post, October 10, 2008; Page A16)
Financial Crisis Tests Limits of Unity Within the E.U. (Post, October 10, 2008; Page A14)
TUMULT ABROAD: 'Nordic Tiger' Iceland Finds Itself in Meltdown (Post, October 10, 2008; Page A01)
Europe's Stocks Plunge Despite Massive British Rescue Plan (Post, October 9, 2008; Page A06)
Gates Seeks European Troops for Afghanistan (Post, October 9, 2008; Page A15)
Gates Asks Europe to Send More Troops to Afghanistan (Post, October 8, 2008; 3:05 PM)
3 Physicists Win Nobel Prize: American, 2 Japanese Researched Broken Symmetry of Particles (Post, October 8, 2008; Page A08)
In Visit to Kosovo, Gates Underlines U.S. Support (Post, October 8, 2008; Page A15)
E.U. Seeks A Unified Approach To Crisis: But Nations Are Taking Own Steps (Post, October 8, 2008; Page D01)
Europeans Put Hope In Farseeing Banker: Trichet May Cut Continent's Interest Rate (Post, October 7, 2008; 11:06 PM)
World's Stock Markets Plunge: Investors Fear Moves By U.S., Europeans May Not Be Enough (Post, October 7, 2008; Page D01)
Crisis Is Putting Brakes on Russia's Construction Boom (Post, October 7, 2008; Page A12)
RIPPLE EFFECTS: Germany Drafts Plan to Shield Banking Sector (Post, October 7, 2008; Page A01)
Germany to Guarantee Private Bank Accounts: French Firm to Control Belgium's Fortis (Post, October 6, 2008; Page A11)
Feeling the Pain As Irish Property Values Plummet (Post, October 6, 2008; Page A09)
No Joint European Strategy On Banks: 4 Top Economies Seek World Summit (Post, October 5, 2008; Page A01)
Blast Kills 7 Russian Troops in S. Ossetia: Enclave's Leaders Blame Georgians (Post, October 4, 2008; Page A12)
U.S. Plans to Move Embassy in London to Enhance Security (Post, October 3, 2008; Page A17)
European Leaders Split on Rescue Strategy (Post, October 3, 2008; Page A15)
Europe Beginning to Realize Its Lenders Share in the Blame (Post, October 2, 2008; Page A12)
Somalia Embraces Foreign Assistance Against Pirates (Post, October 2, 2008; Page A17)
E.U. Monitors Begin Mission in Georgia, Meet No Resistance: Russia Had Vowed to Limit Movement (Post, October 2, 2008; Page A18)
Russia's Last Czar Exonerated By Court: Ruling a Victory For Descendants (Post, October 2, 2008; Page A18)
Financial Hubs See an Opening Up at the Top: Wall Street's Long, Dominant Run Is Fading, Global Financiers Say (Post, October 1, 2008; Page D01)
Global Bankers Anxiously Watch U.S.: Financial Leaders, Exasperated by American Discord, Realize Limits of Own Powers (Post, October 1, 2008; Page A12)
WORLD MARKETS: As Contagion Spreads, Moods Abruptly Shift (Post, September 30, 2008; Page A01)
U.S. Navy Bolsters Watch Over Ship Seized by Somali Pirates (Post, September 30, 2008; Page A16)
US-BUSINESS Summary (Reuters, October 13, 2008; 4:18 AM)
Global stocks, oil jump after bank rescue plans (Reuters, October 13, 2008; 4:14 AM)
US-BUSINESS Summary (Reuters, October 13, 2008; 2:58 AM)
US-INTERNATIONAL Summary (Reuters, October 13, 2008; 2:56 AM)
Conservatives ahead in Lithuania election (AP, October 13, 2008; 1:20 AM)
