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Hunger 'kills 17,000 children per day' 23 Nov 2009 14:54 GMT
... -- Somewhere in the world, a child dies ... statistic as he kicked off a three-day summit on world food security Monday in Rome. ... fulfill a promise they made during a Group of Eight meeting in July to increase food aid ...
Greenhouse gases reach record levels - U.N. agency 23 Nov 2009 19:01 GMT
... Greenhouse gases reach record levels - U.N. agency ... by the end of this century. The Group of Eight and other major economies agreed at a summit in Italy in July to try to ...
Greenhouse gases reach record levels-UN agency 23 Nov 2009 19:27 GMT
... * Carbon dioxide levels rising rapidly * Trends point ... by the end of this century. The Group of Eight and other major economies agreed at a summit in Italy in July to try to ...
Greenhouse gases at record level 23 Nov 2009 21:57 GMT
... - Last Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009, 19:41 Concentrations ... by the end of this century. The Group of Eight and other major economies agreed at a summit in Italy in July to try to ...
What did Aliyev and Sargsyan discuss in Munich? 23 Nov 2009 08:37 GMT
... the presidents of the countries co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group was adopted at the G8 summit in L'Aquila in Italy on 10 July 2009. They consider that the reconciliation between Azerbaijani ...

Lots of smoke and hot air but little bite 22 Nov 2009 00:15 GMT
... missing. And most of all, the three-day summit ended without reaching an agreement on the UN ... final declaration. The absence of the powerful G8 leaders, save for Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi who played ...
Kingdom important force for stability in region: Berlusconi 22 Nov 2009 00:10 GMT
... on Afghanistan, and Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi participated in the summit of the G8 on energy in Rome. Berlusconi's tour comes within a week of the visit of French President Nicolas ...
Graft index shames india 22 Nov 2009 03:14 GMT
... countries through its banking system. It was severely criticised for this at the last G8 Summit. Transparency International needs to amend its criteria for the corruption index. Sir, India's reaction to ...
Kingdom important force for... 22 Nov 2009 05:44 GMT
... on Afghanistan, and Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi participated in the summit of the G8 on energy in Rome. Berlusconi’s tour comes within a week of the visit of French President Nicolas ...
The end of the world ... again 22 Nov 2009 07:52 GMT
... popcorn refill this would be a good time to go). In 2010, at a G8 summit, heads of state and government are made aware of this apocalyptic forecast and thus cooperate ...

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COP15 militants on warpath 22 Nov 2009 22:14 GMT
... mobilise ‘the radical left’ towards the COP15 summit in Copenhagen and claims that having achieved its ... Gothenburg in 2001 and particularly at the G8 meeting in Rostock in 2007 have ended in violent street ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
Critics say UN food summit is long on rhetoric and waste, short on help for world�'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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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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 ...
UN food summit to ends without much progress 18 Nov 2009 11:50 GMT
... Rome - A three-day United Nations food summit marked by the failure to secure substantial ... attend. The only government leader from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations present was Italian Prime ...
Delegates vow action at UN 'Hunger Summit' 17 Nov 2009 08:53 GMT
... ROME : The UN Hunger Summit on Monday vowed "urgent action" to combat ... the next three years made at a Group of Eight summit in July. The final declaration also ...