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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)
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)

Europe Unified On Proposal to Protect Banks

PARIS, Oct. 11 -- Governments around the world took unprecedented steps Sunday to rescue the global financial system, with major European powers unveiling a united plan to prevent further bank failures while Australia and New Zealand moved to calm panicked investors by guaranteeing deposits before...


Global Markets Fall Despite Reassurances

BERLIN, Oct. 10 -- Fear seized investors around the world Friday as stock markets dropped to levels not broached for several years. National leaders tried to intervene with reassurances and stopgap measures, to no avail.


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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)

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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)

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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)

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Global Bankers Anxiously Watch U.S.:  Financial Leaders, Exasperated by American Discord, Realize Limits of Own Powers (Post, October 1, 2008; Page A12)

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