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09.07.2009, 17:55
On day two of the G8 summit, global warming has taken center stage. The eight richest nations scratch their heads as to where the money’s gone this past year, and developing countries line up to ask for their share.
18.11.2009, 18:34
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After the Lisbon Treaty comes in force, Russia-EU relations won’t suffer considerable changes as they are “inevitable and amicable partners,” President Dmitry Medvedev told a media briefing in Stockholm.
09.07.2009, 01:12
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Kim Carstensen, WWF Global Climate initiative: “The decision [to limit temperature growth to 2ºC] is a step forward. The new US leadership has been important. Also, Russia must have played a constructive role.”
29.03.2009, 06:25
Some 35,000 protesters have marched in London prior to next week's G-20 economic summit in the city.
10.07.2009, 22:31
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The G8 summit that came to an end on Thursday has brought new prospects for major reforms in the world’s most influential political institutions.
18.10.2010, 09:09
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Public services in Britain are facing massive cuts in their budget as the government looks to fill the huge black hole in its balance sheet.
11.07.2009, 01:21
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The statements issued by the G8 during its recent summit will only lead to a further crippling of the global economy, says independent blogger Nicolle Kardell from Washington, D.C.
17.12.2009, 08:57
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President Dmitry Medvedev is preparing to join over a hundred leaders at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, which was stalled for nine-hours on Wednesday due to wrangles over the text to be used for the talks.
08.12.2009, 13:08
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While the UN Secretary General has told the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen that mankind is primarily to blame for global warming, 150 scientists have signed an open letter demanding hard evidence for that.
30.04.2010, 13:37
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Greece faces years of painful cuts to salaries in return for a multi-billion-dollar bailout from the International Monetary Fund and the EU. The Greek finance minister called it a “choice between collapse or salvation.”
Published: 10 July, 2009, 13:51
The G8 leaders are into their third and final day of talks in Italy, which is going to be devoted to food security, fighting world hunger and Africa’s problems.
That so-called "help" with seed technology would not include "terminator seeds", would it? Food and farm aid is a nice idea, but not if it traps farmers in more debt servitude. Ask the Iraqi farmers about saving their own seed - last I heard, they cannot do it any more but must buy special seed each year. Is Monsanto spreading that GM seed to Africa now?