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- G8 to desert U.N. summit on hunger, scepticism rife 16 Nov 2009 08:36 GMT
... G8 to desert U.N. summit on hunger, scepticism rife ROME (Reuters) - Government leaders and officials meet in Rome on ...
- G8 to desert UN summit on hunger, scepticism rife 16 Nov 2009 09:11 GMT
... * Draft declaration dilutes hunger, farm aid targets * Italy's Berlusconi is only G8 leader attending * Aid groups warn summit likely to make no headway By ROME, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Government leaders and officials ...
- G8 to desert UN summit on hunger 16 Nov 2009 10:53 GMT
... Rome on Monday for a three-day UN summit on how to fight global hunger, but anti-poverty ... sudden price rises are very likely. A G8 summit in July pledged $20 billion over the next three ...
- Harper government plans to move G20 summit to Toronto 18 Nov 2009 09:34 GMT
... to move next year's Group of 20 summit to the Toronto area from the Muskoka ... plan to keep the related but separate Group of Eight economic gathering in Muskoka's Huntsville, Ont. Both ... thinking being the G20 would follow the G8. Canada has long been preparing to play ...
- Muskoka communities cash in on G8 19 Nov 2009 02:55 GMT
... expecting motorcades ferrying leaders of the world's Group of Eight nations to drive through his tiny village ... cottage country next June for their annual summit. But the village's long-time mayor is delighted ... Minister Tony Clement for $875,000 from the G8 Legacy Infrastructure Fund, even though Sundridge is ...
- 'Crumbs' for the hungry as UN food summit ends 19 Nov 2009 12:40 GMT
... arrives at the UN food and security summit in Rome on Monday. International efforts to ... over US$44-billion a year. But while the Group of Eight industrialized countries made a US$20-billion pledge for ... was a political decision made by the G8 at L'Aquila." In Rome, the food agency ...
- Rich countries absent from UN summit on hunger 17 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
... The majority attendees to the world summit on food security hosted by the UN ... Minister Silvio Berlusconi, all leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) skipped it. To show solidarity with over ...
- Leaders of Rich Countries Absent from UN Summit on Hunger 17 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
... event. The majority attendees to the world summit on food security hosted by the UN ... Minister Silvio Berlusconi, all leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) skipped it. To show solidarity with over ...
- World Leaders End Lackluster Summit on Hunger 18 Nov 2009 15:31 GMT
... World leaders on Thursday concluded a three-day summit on global food security, but the high-profile ... Minister Silvio Berlusconi, all leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) rich countries skipped it. "Sixty leaders are ...
- Critics say UN food summit is long on rhetoric and waste, short on help for worldÂ's hungry 17 Nov 2009 21:50 GMT
... Critics say UN food summit is long on rhetoric and waste, short ... nations. None of the leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations attended except for Italian ... held in parallel with the summit. The G8 meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, essentially set the ...
- World Leaders' Presence Missed At Rome Food Summit 16 Nov 2009 16:23 GMT
... countries to buy farmland abroad. In July, Group of Eight (G8) leaders meeting in Italy pledged $20 billion ... leader expected to attend this week's food summit is Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of the ...
- UN summit unlikely to find new funds to fight hunger - Feature 16 Nov 2009 16:31 GMT
... day of this week's United Nations food summit in Rome, and Libya's Moamer Gaddafi was ... Indeed, the only government leader from the Group of Eight most- industrialized nations present on Monday was ... group Oxfam branded the no-show by the G8 leaders "a dereliction of duty." "Their disregard ...
- Summit vows action' on food 16 Nov 2009 23:36 GMT
... The UN Hunger Summit has vowed “urgent action” to combat food ... the next three years made at a Group of Eight summit in July. The final declaration also ... also criticised the lack of financial specifics. “G8 leaders ... have still failed to specify ...
- UN 'Hunger Summit' opens in Rome 16 Nov 2009 03:30 GMT
... relative amid a devastating drought. A UN summit on the plight of the planet's one ... Berlusconi is the only leader from the Group of Eight industrialised countries expected to be among the ... said Oxfam spokesman Frederic Mousseau. "At the G8 in Italy this summer they pledged 20 ...
- Lack of world leaders hobbled hunger summit: FAO chief 19 Nov 2009 22:44 GMT
... world’s wealthiest states undermined the UN Hunger Summit, reducing it to a “technical” forum, the ... Berlusconi was the only leader of a Group of Eight nation to appear. The summit came under ... of the heads of state of the G8 countries ... was one of the key ...
- UN 'Hunger Summit' starved for attention 15 Nov 2009 12:14 GMT
... [article_id] => 1132717 [headline] => UN 'Hunger Summit' starved for attention [abstract] => Leaders of ... Berlusconi is the only leader from the Group of Eight industrialised countries expected to attend the "Hunger ... show enough interest and urgency. "At the G8 in Italy this summer they pledged $US20 ...
- UN's 'Hunger Summit' opens in Rome 16 Nov 2009 02:52 GMT
... ROME: A UN summit on the plight of the planet's one ... Berlusconi is the only leader from the Group of Eight industrialised countries expected to be among the ... said Oxfam spokesman Frederic Mousseau. "At the G8 in Italy this summer, they pledged 20 ...
- UN hunger summit 'waste' without rich 16 Nov 2009 03:31 GMT
... A UN summit on the plight of the planet's one ... Berlusconi is the only leader from the Group of Eight industrialised countries expected to be among the ... said Oxfam spokesman Frederic Mousseau. "At the G8 in Italy this summer they pledged $US20 ...
- Hunger Summit kicks off 16 Nov 2009 09:12 GMT
... A UN summit on the plight of the planet's one ... Berlusconi is the only leader from the Group of Eight industrialised countries expected to be among the ... said Oxfam spokesperson Frederic Mousseau. "At the G8 in Italy this summer they pledged $20-billion ...
- Food Summit: Pope deplores greed in agriculture 16 Nov 2009 16:27 GMT
... Food Summit: Pope deplores greed in agriculture Vatican, 16 ... Berlusconi is the only leader from the Group of Eight countries attending. The G8 includes the world's key industrialised nations plus ...
- Silvio Berlusconi uses food summit as excuse to miss trial 15 Nov 2009 21:10 GMT
... the start of a global food security summit in Rome on Monday as a pretext ... no new aid commitments. Leaders from the Group of Eight club of rich nations were "snubbing" the ... Berlusconi, as host, will be the only G8 leader to attend. ...
- Food summit turns down UN f... 17 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
... on Monday as a United Nations food summit rallied around a strategy of more help ... nations put forward the strategy at the Group of Eight summit this summer in L'Aquila, Italy. Despite ... that was first laid out at the G8 summit in July, during which leaders of ...
- Food summit turns down UN fund appeal 17 Nov 2009 13:12 GMT
... on Monday as a United Nations food summit rallied around a strategy of more help ... nations put forward the strategy at the Group of Eight summit this summer in L'Aquila, Italy. Despite ... that was first laid out at the G8 summit in July, during which leaders of ...
- FAO director-general regrets lack of commitment at world summit on hunger 17 Nov 2009 06:10 GMT
... concluding the first day of a world summit on food security, Diouf said he felt ... these funds would be allocated. At the Group of Eight (G8) summit in July, a 22-billion-U.S.-dollar funding over ...
- Hunger summit 'just a rehash' 17 Nov 2009 05:10 GMT
... A UN summit on food security vowed in a final ... next three years they made at July’s Group of Eight summit in L’Aquila, Italy. “Rich countries are ...
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