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MONTREAL – More than 3,000 Teamsters members have gone on strike at Canadian Pacific Railway after contract talks failed to reach an agreement before the midnight deadline. The Teamsters Canada Rail conference union represents 3,300 locomotive engineers and other train workers. It was not clear early Sunday how rail service …

CHISINAU, Moldova – Moldova’s government is trying to stabilize the country’s currency, which plummeted 25 percent this week amid concerns over the financial and political system. The currency has been hit by worries that the banking system is in crisis and public finances are in decline. Also, the country has …

TOKYO – Honda Motor Co., the Japanese automaker at the center of an air-bag defect scandal, says its president Takanobu Ito will step aside. The decision follows massive recalls by Honda of vehicles equipped with air bags made by Japan’s Takata Corp. Takata airbags are used by many automakers but …