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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill met with President Eduardo Duhalde and business executives Tuesday to discuss the general unraveling of Argentina's economy, including its debt default, currency devaluation and 22 percent unemployment rate. As O'Neill arrived from Uruguay -- where he praised that country for how it handled its banking crisis -- about 1,500 demonstrators marched through the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, burning an American flag and holding signs saying, "Yankees, get out of Latin America!" Many here blame free market systems for failing to end the poverty of half of Argentina's 36 million people. The...

KANANASKIS, Alberta (AP) - World leaders, wrapping up a summit rocked by a new U.S. corporate bookkeeping scandal and dissension over President Bush's Mideast policy, turned their attention to Africa and a far-reaching program to provide billions of dollars of assistance to the world's poorest continent. Bush, who has lobbied the other leaders to support his new Middle East peace proposal and its demand that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat be ousted, was to discuss the issue during a meeting Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Earlier this week, Putin said bluntly that it would be ``dangerous and mistaken'' to remove...