Official: no survivors in Kaczynski plane crash

The governor of a Russian region where a plane carrying Poland's president has crashed says there are no survivors. Smolensk governor Sergei Anufriev made the statement to state news channel Rossiya-24 about an hour after the Saturday crash. The Tu-154 plane crashed near the Smolensk airport, about 400 kilometers (275 miles) west of Moscow. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were aboard the plane, according to the Polish foreign...

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China's $7.24B March trade deficit 1st in 6 years

China reported its first monthly trade deficit in nearly six years in March, a shift expected to be shortlived that may give Beijing only a slight respite from pressure to revalue its currency. The $7.24 billion trade deficit in March reported Saturday by China's customs administration was China's first since a $2.26 billion deficit in April 2004. Though expected, it was significantly bigger than many economists had forecast. It follows four straight months of narrowing...

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