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...Canada's central bank also slashed its overnight rate three quarters of a percentage point, to 1.5%, the lowest level since 1958 when John Diefenbaker was prime minister. The move is intended, in part, to prop up sinking consumer confidence and provide some much-need relief for key sectors such as forestry, mining and oil that have been particularly hard hit in recent months by a commodity bust. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...went on runs, but it was too much of a hole to climb out of.” Nine of GW’s 11 points in that run came from the foul line, as the difference in free-throw shooting was one of the key components in the game—the Colonials made 19-of-23 shots from the charity stripe. The Crimson had experienced big edges in points from the foul line in many of its games this season, but shot just 11-of-17 from the charity stripe on Saturday. Housman led Harvard from the foul...
...annual deforestation rate by 2017, and South Africa initiated a program to stop growth of its carbon emissions by 2025. "Developing countries are starting to signal an emerging willingness to take action," says Jake Schmidt, the international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. That's key, given the fact that developing countries - a category that encompasses nations as different as massive, polluting China and tiny Tuvalu, soon to be swallowed up by rising sea levels - will be responsible for the bulk of future carbon emissions. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...party system. That project failed, as did efforts to weaken the begums' networks of patronage that assured their grip on power. After two years out in the cold, Hasina or Zia could very well snatch the reins again, and perhaps roll back the charges leveled against them and key allies...
Drug-related violence in Guatemala has become increasingly savage over the past two years as powerful Mexican cartels battle each other and Guatemalan traffickers for control over what has become a key link in the cocaine route from Colombia to the United States. The most recent battle, on Nov. 30, left at least 17 dead when a shootout broke out near the Guatemala-Mexico border. Last March, 11 men died in a shootout at a rural recreation spot. And those are just the events that made headlines; experts say there have been, and will be, more. "Frankly, I think...