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Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who has little fiscal experience, will succeed Hirohisa Fujii and face spiraling public debt and a fading economic recovery.

author By HIROKO TABUCHI, source www.nytimes.com

European governments, already under pressure from slowing economic growth and falling tax revenue, are increasingly concerned that the anger over higher gas prices could grow.

author By KATRIN BENNHOLD, source www.nytimes.com

Nearly 30 cities across the United States have seen their scheduled service disappear in the last year.

author By MICHELINE MAYNARD, source www.nytimes.com

How a backlash against energy exploration could hurt the Republicans out West.

author By DAVID SIROTA, source www.nytimes.com

The weight of Gazprom, Russia’s corporate leviathan, extends far beyond its fields of natural gas all the way to the Kremlin, now headed by Dmitri A. Medvedev, its chairman.

author By ANDREW E. KRAMER, source www.nytimes.com

French legislators adopted a pioneering law Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders with “thinspiration” and starvation tips.

author By DOREEN CARVAJAL, source www.nytimes.com

Mr. Eberle pushed Europe and Japan to lower trade barriers as President Richard M. Nixon’s chief trade negotiator in the 1970s.

author By BARNABY J. FEDER, source www.nytimes.com

A campaign for a trade deal with Colombia has former Clinton administration aides aligned with Republicans.

author By ERIC LIPTON and STEVEN R. WEISMAN, source www.nytimes.com

A campaign to promote a trade deal with Colombia has former Clinton aides aligned with Republicans.

author By ERIC LIPTON and STEVEN R. WEISMAN, source www.nytimes.com

Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s.

author By DAVID LEONHARDT and MARJORIE CONNELLY, source www.nytimes.com

News Corp.’s partner, Imedi television, is in danger of losing for failing to broadcast for more than three months since a crackdown by Georgian authorities last autumn.

author By ANDREW E. KRAMER, source www.nytimes.com

The tobacco giant is attacking the F.D.A. as weak and overextended amid a congressional effort to empower the agency to regulate the tobacco industry.

author By STEPHANIE SAUL, source www.nytimes.com

How did a handful of activists manage to shake up Beijing with “Genocide Olympics” T-shirts?

author By ILAN GREENBERG, source www.nytimes.com

On Wall Street, intervention should have happened long ago. It’s called oversight.

author By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, source www.nytimes.com

The chairman of the Italian airline Air One, Carlo Toto, said that his company was ready to make a new offer for Alitalia, but needed three weeks to study its books.

author By REUTERS, source www.nytimes.com

The top post at Japan’s central bank now sits empty after a political standoff in Parliament blocked selection of a successor to the departing governor.

author By MARTIN FACKLER, source www.nytimes.com

For the second time in a week, Japanese lawmakers voted down the government’s nominee for central bank chief.

author By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, source www.nytimes.com

To deal with an economic slowdown, the government, which has been aiming to lower the deficit, said it would borrow an additional £7 billion, or $14 billion, next year.

author By JULIA WERDIGIER, source www.nytimes.com

A political showdown is blocking Japan from selecting the next leader of its central bank, increasing the chances that the post could sit vacant at a time of growing financial turmoil.

author By MARTIN FACKLER, source www.nytimes.com

More than a half century after the opening of the first commercial reactor, there is still no permanent disposal site for highly radioactive waste.

author By JAMES KANTER, source www.nytimes.com