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TORONTO – Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin dissolved the House of Commons Tuesday and elections were set following Parliament’s vote of no confidence in the government. Martin went to the official residence of Governor-General Michaelle Jean, representative of head of state Queen Elizabeth, and announced that she had granted his …

NEW YORK – U.S. consumer confidence improved in November as gasoline prices eased and the drag on sentiment from Hurricane Katrina abated, a report showed on Wednesday. The University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment recovered from a two-month slump to 81.6 this month from 74.2 in October, just above …

BEIJING – The death toll in a coal mine explosion in northeast China rose to 161 late Wednesday after emergency workers pulled more bodies from underground, state media reported. At least 10 miners were missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blast, which occurred Sunday at the Dongfeng Coal …