| Speculation and world food marketsThe New Nation, Bangladesh - 2 hours agoRising food prices have also strained the capacity of food aid agencies, spurred a United Nations summit, and drawn extensive worldwide press coverage. ... |
A viewer's guide to Olympic eventsThe Associated Press - 6 Aug 2008The trio made sports history in 2005, when they each won world championship titles in their divisions, the first time that has ever happened in the same ... |
Bush's genuinely principled standBangkok Post, Thailand - 5 Aug 2008She has also participated in several roundtable discussions on Burma with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari. ... |
South Asia News in brief: 24 July–6 AugustSciDev.net, UK - 6 Aug 2008The index was developed as a response to the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index, which the Sri Lankans say doesn't take into ... |
The Role of Foreign MinisterScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 20 hours agoAnd, despite the imaginings of some New Zealand commentators, the truth is that Foreign Ministers around the world just want to get down to business when ... |
A triumph of style over substanceThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 3 Aug 2008Almost all of them, from the UN to the World Bank, are the flora of a different political landscape, planted in the period after the Second World War when ... |
Ban fails UN and global challengeAsia Times Online, Hong Kong - 15 Jul 2008The UN secretary general limited himself to praising the summit's achievements and in so doing shed new light on the limits of his leadership style of ... |
BC school closes before it opensNational Post, Canada - 2 Aug 2008The school had campuses in operation elsewhere, and was affiliated with the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, or so thought one senior ... |
Is G8 a parallel UN Security Council?The Daily Star, Bangladesh - 27 Jul 2008At the end of World War II, the victors decided to take measures to avoid the possibility of repetition of a global conflict and formed the UN. ... |
G8 leaders are able but unwilling to actguardian.co.uk, UK - 24 Jul 2008The fourth problem is that the G8 ignores the very international institutions – notably the United Nations and the World Bank – that offer the best hope to ... |
Lebanese Christians mull conversionAsia Times Online, Hong Kong - 1 Aug 2008A UN tribunal established to investigate the Hariri killing may now be jeopardized by the Hezbollah veto, as well as Israel-Syria peace negotiations. ... |
GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate changeIRINnews.org, NY - 5 Aug 2008According to the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the decade from 1998 to 2007 was the warmest on record. Governments began to sit up and take ... |
Africa: AU Summit And G8 ReviewAllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 Aug 2008In its publication on the "Water for Life Decade, 2005-2015", the UN cited "Lack of safe water and adequate sanitation" as "the world's single largest cause ... |
 CBC.ca | G8: Who should be a member?CBC.ca, Canada - 16 Jul 2008"It's also not as if they're being offered a seat on the UN Security Council." Though they would likely join the clubhouse after China and India, ... |
CLIMATE CHANGE: Insubstantial ShadowsInter Press Service (subscription), Italy - 28 Jul 2008One could argue that both the UN and the G8 meetings have helped push the world to understanding global warming and the urgency for measures to check it, ... |
Outside View: ASEAN lessons -- Part 1United Press International - 4 Aug 2008This is when the government of Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations released the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment -- PONJA ... |
UN Security Council Action Needed on BurmaThe Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - 26 Jul 2008The concept of "responsibility to protect," adopted by a UN world summit in 2005, should not be dead when it comes to the issue of Burma. ... |
No G(r)8 AccomplishmentWashington Post, United States - 9 Jul 2008The Major Economies issued their own declaration at the G-8 summit, pledging to support UN efforts to conclude a new climate agreement. ... |
 PRESS TV | What is G8 and what has it achieved?PRESS TV, Iran - 18 Jul 2008The G8 group with PLUS 5 also needs to offer more support to the United Nations and its affiliated agencies. Over sixty years of activity and having 192 ... |
Food for thoughtPakistan Daily Mail, Pakistan - 2 Aug 2008According to data released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in January, per-capita meat consumption was 124 kg in the United States, ... |
I’m Still the most Powerful Politician TodayNewswatch (subscription), Nigeria - 3 Aug 2008Are we expecting United Nations to fund the development of the region? And, therefore, they wanted a representative of the UN to chair the summit? ... |
 Globe and Mail | The shy, introverted superpowerGlobe and Mail, Canada - 11 Jul 2008The decisions of the United States will, for example, continue to dominate relations with Iran. The European nations are too divided over something as ... |
Posted By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/THE CANADIAN PRESSPembroke Daily Observer, Canada - 9 Jul 2008Reductions from 2005 levels, for instance, would be far less than from 1990 levels, as in the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Still, UN Secretary-General ... |
The Right Way to Engage ChinaForeign Affairs Magazine - 3 Aug 2008China has been deft in exercising its soft power to advance its economic interests around the world. In 2006, it hosted the first summit and third ... |
Addressing Energy Issues In The Western HemisphereScoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand - 3 Aug 2008At a recent high-level meeting of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, the United States along with all other FAO nations also endorsed a declaration ... |
Doubling Of Grants To UN Food Aid Agency UrgedWorld Bank Group, DC - 23 Jul 2008The UN's World Food Programme will stop ferrying aid between Thailand 's Don Muang airport and Myanmar 's main city Yangon from August 10, and withdraw five ... |
 GulfNews | Poor response to Darfur crisisGulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 31 Jul 2008In September 2005, more than 150 heads of state - including several Arab and Muslim leaders - gathered at the United Nations for a historic summit. ... |
The current oil shockAljazeera.com, UK - 25 Jul 2008On the other hand, according to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the CO2 capture and storage (CCS) system could someday ... |
 CBS News | Exiting Iraq Is Easier Than They SayCBS News, NY - 17 Jul 2008We urge the next President to pursue a sweeping new United Nations mandate, to take effect in 2009, predicated upon a timetable of twelve to eighteen months ... |
Jihad Economics and Islamic BankingInternational Analyst Network, NY - 2 Aug 2008The IDB has also channeled UN funds to Hamas, as documented by bank records discovered in the West Bank and Gaza. Yet, the IDB received UN observer status ... |
June 2008 US-EU Summit DeclarationistockAnalyst.com, OR - 15 Jul 2008We have co-sponsored a Declaration in the United Nations General Assembly to highlight the plight of prisoners of conscience throughout the world in honour ... |
Venezuela : amateur dramatics, false witnessScoop.co.nz, New Zealand - 28 Jul 2008Outside the US, most of the world has friendly relations with Cuba and a majority with Iran too. Votes in the UN General Assembly show repeatedly that on ... |
Obama Nations AbroadAmerican Spectator - 31 Jul 2008There is a United States of America." Blair was said to regard the "ideological" approach to politics as "almost a perversion of the 20th century. ... |
Hyderabad to host Internet governanceThe Statesman, India - 10 Jul 2008Its purpose is to support the United Nations Secretary General in carrying out the mandate from the World Summit on Information Society. ... |
Bush and BurmaThe Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - 1 Aug 2008She has also participated in several roundtable discussions on Burma with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari. ... |
Japan ducks rice-crisis solutionAsia Times Online, Hong Kong - 17 Jul 2008By C Peter Timmer The Group of Eight summit of the world's leading industrial nations held in Japan this month was a missed opportunity for the host nation ... |
'Girl below 10 yrs raped every 13th hr'Times of India, India - 23 Jul 2008At the World Summit for Children in 1990 India adopted the World Declaration for Survival, Protection and Development of children. ... |
G8 is Gr8?New Statesman, UK - 10 Jul 2008The real business on climate change is taking place within the framework of the UN Convention, which will set targets for the post-Kyoto, post-2012 regime ... |
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