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Deflation looms as new threat to China (International Herald Tribune)
Global economic crisis changes focus from fighting inflation, which had reached 8.7 percent in February.

Jonathan Freedland: The president-elect is not a dove - he is just a much smarter hawk (Guardian Unlimited)
That noise you've been hearing for the past week, the one that began in the United States last Tuesday before spreading throughout the world? That's the sound of a global sigh of relief. It contained a cry of joy too, of course, especially among black Americans and people of colour across the globe, seeing a man who looks like them ascend, at last, to the highest office in the world. But ...

Habs president calls weak loonie a threat to Canadian teams (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
MONTREAL - Montreal Canadiens president Pierre Boivin fears that the sagging loonie could send Canadian NHL teams spiralling back into the dark economic days that preceded the lockout.

Report on Threat From Nuclear Bombs Cites Urgent Need for Global Security (Washington Post)
When armed men attacked South Africa's most closely guarded nuclear facility a year ago, they penetrated the detection systems at the perimeter, cut through an electrified fence and broke into the emergency control center, shooting one worker there in the chest before escaping.

Even in the face of high fuel costs and the threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, (Business Standard India)
Anand Sankar finds the traditional shipping industry in Gujarat buzzing with life. The video on the mobile phone is silent and grainy. The wooden boat being tossed about in the grey ocean is hard to miss. A monster wave seeks to swallow the vessel.