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down 27 percent this year, according to the country's central bank.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Fans of "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker erected a makeshift memorial near the site of his fatal automobile crash, as investigators worked to determine the cause of the fiery weekend wreck that also claimed the life of his friend.
• The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said speed was a factor in Saturday's one-car crash, though it will take time to determine how fast the car was going.
• Roger Rodas, Walker's friend and financial adviser, also died, according to Walker's publicist, Ame Van Iden. She said Walker was a passenger in the 2005 red Porsche Carrera GT when they drove away from a fundraiser in the community of Valencia, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
• Sheriff's deputies found the car engulfed in flames when they arrived at the site of the crash, near the fundraiser at Rodas' sport car dealership. Officials have not identified either person found in the car.
• Because Walker is so closely associated with the underground culture of street racing portrayed in the popular film franchise, the accident had an eerie quality -- a tragic end for a Hollywood hero of speed.
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• LONDON (AP) -- The operation was called Kindertransport -- Children's Transport -- and it was a passage from hell to freedom.
• Kristallnacht had just rocked Nazi Germany. The pogroms killed dozens of Jews, burned hundreds of synagogues and imprisoned tens of thousands in concentration camps. Many historians see them as the start of Hitler's Final Solution.
• Amid the horror, Britain agreed to take in children threatened by the Nazi murder machine.
• Seventy-five years ago this week, the first group of kids arrived without their parents at the English port of Harwich, and took a train to London's Liverpool Street Station.
• Some 10,000 children, most but not all Jewish, would escape the Nazis in the

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