The EU debt crisis flaring up again has been a supportive element for safe-haven assets such as gold.

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It settled into a pattern of flaring up every now and then before dying back to a grumble.

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Google's Flu Trends looks at search terms to create real-time estimates of where the flu is flaring up.

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If the euro-zone crisis, which is flaring up again, leads to a break-up, the shock-waves will hit Britain.

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Worries that the euro-zone crisis was flaring up again pushed the broad MSCI Asia ex-Japan index down 1.3% on Monday.

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One U.S. commander in southern Afghanistan told me about his Afghan counterpart flaring up when he learned American support was being quickly scaled back.

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He also predicts that Petrobras will end up flaring much of the gas that rushes out with the oil, rather than spending lots of money to liquefy it to generate electricity.

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