L'Aquila (Italy), Oct 22 (DPA) The Italian government has ordered the closure of a group on the social networking website, Facebook, calling for the death of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an ...

New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) When disaster strikes an area, hospitals are the most critical infrastructure. So it is essential to protect the hospitals themselves from disasters, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ...

New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) India has not changed its climate policy and the declaration at the Major Economic Forum adopted at L'Aquila, Italy, is not a declaration of India's climate ...

United Nations, July 21 (IANS) The world's largest economies have "clearly ignored" the findings of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN scientific body that evaluates climate change when formulating their recent proposals on ...

On board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said talk of US President Barack Obama and his administration being not supportive towards India ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was Friday criticized by name by the G8, the group of the world's wealthiest and most industrialized countries, for the ongoing turmoil in ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been busy with back-to-back meetings of the G8-G5 summit and bilaterals with heads of other countries in this quake-hit town ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) It can be termed as the new 'G' order of the world where the presence of nations proclaims their international political and economic status. The ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) Over a billion people in the world are suffering from hunger and poverty and the global economic crisis has plunged nearly 100 million into extreme ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (ANI): The Italian press has gone to town about the snobbish ways of Carla Bruni, the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Bruni stayed away from the first wives' ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) Convincing her father to let her go to school has paid dividends for a teenaged Indian girl from a tribal area of Orissa. She ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) It can be termed as the new 'G' order of the world where the presence of various nations spells out their international political and ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (ANI): Britain is ready to cut its number of nuclear warheads in its Trident weapons system as part of a global deal, The Telegraph reports. Prime Minister Gordon ...

New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) While top global leaders like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are meeting in Italy, Orissa teenager Sanyukta Pangi is busy attending a summit parallel to the G8-G5 ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) India is hopeful that the issue of climate change will move forward with the G8 countries, the group of the world's most developed nations, ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will go to the US later this year while US President Barack Obama will visit India next year. The invitations were exchanged and ...

By Naveen Kapoor L'aquila (Italy), July 10 (ANI): The G8-G5 agreement on introducing reforms in international and financial institutions has buoyed India's hopes for a UNSC seat. The proposal put forth by ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (ANI): Developed and developing nations have agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than two degrees Celsius above 1900 levels, a G8 summit declaration has said. ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (DPA) French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing for an expansion of the Group of Eight (G8). "The G8 are no longer representative enough to manage the economic crisis," Sarkozy ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 (EFE) US President Barack Obama has urged his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to help convince Iran to keep its nuclear programme peaceful. The two leaders ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) The outreach meeting of the G8, the grouping of the world's most wealthy and industrialized countries, with the world's emerging economies G5, Thursday outlined ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Trade protectionist policies of some countries, especially in the times of global economic crisis, have been given a thumbs down by the joint declaration of ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) The G8 or the world's most wealthy and developed countries have remained non-committal on setting targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, a demand ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Even as they jointly declared to conclude the Doha development round on trade talks by 2010, the world's most wealthy and industrialized countries or ...

L´AQUILA, Italy (BNO NEWS) -- "We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Prime MInister Manmohan Singh briefly met with US President Barack Obama during the outreach meeting of G8 and G5 leaders at their summit here ...

L'AQUILA, July 9 (ANI): Leaders of the world's richest nations and major developing powers met on Thursday (July 9) to discuss global issues on the second day of a G8 summit ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Pakistan has got the support from the G8, the group of world's eight most wealthy and industrialised countries, for its fight against terrorism. "The G8 ...

By Jaideep Sarin L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Brazil has asked G5 countries to explore the possibility of using their own currency to settle trading accounts amongst themselves. The suggestion was made by ...

L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and their means of delivery poses a global challenge, said leaders of the world's most industrialised countries ...