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A U.S.-backed plan to forge a Pacific free trade bloc got a big boost Sunday when leaders of Canada and Mexico joined Japan in expressing support for a deal that has received a cool reception from China, the region’s rising power.
The news was a coup for President Barack Obama, who made progress on the pact […]

The leaders of Greece’s two biggest parties are due to resume talks Monday to agree on who should be the country’s new prime minister, after reaching a historic power-sharing deal to push through a massive financial rescue deal that will prevent imminent bankruptcy.
Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and conservative leader Antonis Samaras are to hold […]

British lawmaker Tom Watson grilled News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch about covert surveillance techniques by company employees as News Corp. held its first shareholders meeting following a phone-hacking scandal.
More than 100 people demonstrated Friday outside the lot of News Corp.’s Fox Studios.
Watson asked Murdoch whether he was aware that a person who had left prison […]

British lawmaker Tom Watson plans to detail new findings of covert surveillance techniques employed by News Corp. that go “beyond phone hacking.”
Watson said the revelations planned at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Friday “will leave the company liable to civil liability but also huge reputational harm.”
News Corp. officials declined to comment.
Watson has spearheaded a 2 […]

Stocks slid in early trading Tuesday after disappointing corporate earnings reports and concerns that France and Germany may not reach an agreement to provide additional support for Greece.
Moody’s also warned late Monday that it may downgrade France’s top-notch credit rating in the next three months. On Tuesday, that country’s finance minister said that the French […]

The 11-year prison sentence for a wealthy hedge fund founder convicted of insider trading charges set a record for its length, but still left the government well short of the two-decade-long prison sentence it had sought to send a stern message to Wall Street.
Raj Rajaratnam, 54, left federal court in Manhattan on Thursday after U.S. […]

The leaders of Germany and France, the eurozone’s two biggest economies, are meeting to discuss new measures to counter the bloc’s debt crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are holding the talks at Berlin’s chancellery to forge an agreement on the next steps in tackling the debt crisis ahead of a summit […]

The Bank of England is deciding whether to pump billions more pounds into the ailing British economy.
Bank watchers are split on whether the nine policymakers will announce more stimulus on Thursday, or wait another month.
There is growing pressure on the Bank to resume quantitative easing whereby it essentially creates new money by buying financial assets […]

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While Southwest Airlines commercial jets picked up scores of passengers Wednesday at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, a single-engine Cessna taxied to gate E33 where a small group of passengers quietly waited for their flight to Burlington, Iowa.
The Burlington flight is one of a handful of departures offered by Air Choice One. Based in south St. […]