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 FRANKFURT (AFP) - The European Central Bank will consider a proposed emergency fund for eurozone economies in distress, ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet said on Wednesday.Published 17 minutes ago |
 MADRID (AFP) - Unions at General Motors' Opel plant in Spain said negotiations with management on a restructuring plan for the factory collapsed late on Wednesday.Published 1 hour, 8 minutes ago |
 MIAMI (AFP) - Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation.Published 1 hour, 45 minutes ago |
 WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government registered a record budget deficit in February, the 17th consecutive month of running in the red, the Treasury said Wednesday.Published 3 hours, 22 minutes ago |
 LONDON (AFP) - British oil giant Shell said Wednesday it had stopped selling petrol to Iran, becoming the latest major oil company to stop trading with the Islamic Republic.Published 3 hours, 34 minutes ago |
 HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) - China's hunger for oil is set to drive global demand in the coming years as consumption in the industrialized countries may not regain pre-economic crisis levels, experts say.Published 3 hours, 49 minutes ago |
 WASHINGTON (AFP) - WTO chief Pascal Lamy was in Washington Wednesday for talks with US officials and lawmakers amid an uphill effort to wrap up the long-running Doha Round of global trade talks by this year.Published 3 hours, 58 minutes ago |
 BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called Wednesday on President Barack Obama to put his weight behind a quick resolution to a US-Brazilian trade dispute.Published 4 hours, 10 minutes ago |
 YAOUNDE (AFP) - A sharp drop in world prices has almost halved cotton production in Africa over five years, the African Cotton Association announced Wednesday, saying the sector faced an "acute crisis."Published 4 hours, 16 minutes ago |
 THE HAGUE (AFP) - Dutch financial markets watchdog AFM said Wednesday it had fined insurance group Fortis Holding 576,000 euros (780,000 dollars) for market manipulation and withholding share price sensitive information.Published 4 hours, 18 minutes ago |