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...Asian financial crisis when its currency plunged and set off a chain reaction that hurt emerging markets from Russia to Vietnam. Nearly a decade later, Thailand last month risked triggering a similar meltdown when the country's central bank imposed capital controls in an attempt to curb a big appreciation of the national currency, the baht. Coming just three months after a military junta seized power, the move spooked foreign investors and sent Thai stocks plunging nearly 15% in a day before the government partially reversed itself. Yet there was no regional domino effect. Some Asian markets dipped in reaction...
...Iranians suspected of moving weapons to Iraqi militias. > U.S. officials stress that the purpose here is simply protecting U.S. troops, but a number have reportedly said the purpose is to counter Iranian efforts to thwart the U.S. in Iraq - and, according to the New York Times, also to curb Iran's ambitions to strengthen its strategic influence in the region through its primacy in Iraq...
...Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. After a phone conference with the Iraqi leader, Pres. Bush said al-Maliki had promised U.S. forces would be given a free hand, and that "political or sectarian interference will not be tolerated." Such interference has in the past blighted U.S. efforts to curb the Shi'ite militias responsible for most of the sectarian killing, especially in Baghdad...
...fresh-face appeal. Former Vice President Al Gore, who's beloved by the Hollywood environmental community, is also someone with lots of fans. "I would do everything in my power to convince Gore to run again," says environmental activist Laurie David, who is also be the wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David. "But he says he's not seriously considering...
There have been at least eight murders in New Orleans in the first week of 2007, including Hill’s. This sudden increase in homicides has Mayor C. Ray Nagin and police Superintendent Warren J. Riley considering a curfew to help curb the violence...