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IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, right, speak before the Development Committee meeting at International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Paulson: Protectionist policies won't solve crisis

AP - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Appealing for global unity in a time of crisis, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that isolationism and protectionism do not offer a way to contain the spreading damage. He expressed concern about the fallout on poor countries.

This Aug. 13, 2002 file photo is a satellite image provided by Space Imaging Asia of the Yongbyon Nuclear Center, located north of Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced Thursday Oct. 6, 2008 that it is preparing to restart the facility that produced its atomic bomb, clearly indicating that it plans to completely pull out of an international deal to end its nuclear program. North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was stopping the process of disabling its main nuclear site and barring international inspectors from the Yongbyon facility, the agency said. (AP Photo/Space Imaging Asia, File)

NKorea to resume dismantling nuclear facilities

AP - Sun Oct 12, 8:27 AM ET

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the U.S. removed the communist country from a list of states Washington says sponsor terrorism.

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin waves as she arrives for a campaign rally in Johnstown, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Palin has mixed record as fiscal conservative

AP - 6 minutes ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, bills herself as a fiscal conservative. But her record is mixed: She increased to historic proportions the annual bonus each Alaskan receives from the government yet gained prominence by raising taxes on the oil industry.

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