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Iran’s vice president said his country is preparing for a “tsunami” of foreign tourists as sanctions against the country starts being lifted.

Canada’s federal election campaign is the longest in history, and filled with embarrassing revelations and unexpected interventions.

Abe is pursuing a doctrine of collective self defense in order to counterbalance the military power of an increasingly assertive China.

In recent years, people have been arguing that China needs to shift its economy from investment and heavy industry toward consumption.  My own view on that issue has been somewhat agnostic.  It’s inevitable that investment will slow as China becomes a developed economy, but it’s hard to say whether that transition has been happening too slowly or too quickly.

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About 77% of Americans are afraid of identity theft, but many don’t check their credit reports.
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China’s economic growth dipped below 7 percent for the first time since the global financial crisis on Monday, hurt partly by cooling investment, raising pressure on Beijing to further cut interest rates and take other measures to stoke activity. The world’s second-largest economy grew 6.9 percent between July and September from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics said, slightly better than forecasts of a 6.8 percent rise but down from 7 percent in the previous three months.

A federal probe into allegations of corruption at Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s operations in Mexico have found very little, and is likely to result in a much smaller case than investors expected, The Wall Street …