Gaddafi forces regain strategic town of Ajdabiya (Lead)
March 16th, 2011 - 1:14 am ICT by IANS
Tripoli, March 15 (IANS) Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's troops Tuesday "forced rebels out" of strategic town of Ajdabiya, according to reports even as the international community continued to debate a ... Read more...
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India to host global forum on women’s, child’s health
September 25th, 2010 - 6:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Health experts and political leaders from across the world will meet in the capital mid-November to discuss the state of women's and child's health across the ... Read more...
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Bono, Bob Geldof unveil ‘Hurl Berl’ game targeting Berlusconi
June 2nd, 2010 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 2 (ANI): Anti-poverty campaigners Bono and Bob Geldof have unveiled an online game targeting Silvio Berlusconi - a hammer thrower in the game hurls the Italian Premier's cartoon character ... Read more...
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Record-breaking growth by Canadian economy
June 1st, 2010 - 12:45 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, June 1 (IANS) Posting the highest growth rate in more than a decade in annualised terms, Canada's economy grew 6.1 percent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
With the ... Read more...
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G8 urged to help reduce maternal, child mortality
April 26th, 2010 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
New York, April 26 (IANS) G8 development ministers should take a strong stand on fulfilling the global promise to reduce maternal and child mortality and eliminate health disparities among nations and communities, ... Read more...
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US publicly demands deployment of Canadian troops in Afghanistan
March 30th, 2010 - 3:27 pm ICT by ANI
Ottawa, Mar.30 (ANI): The United States is publicly calling for Canadian troops to stay in Afghanistan past next year, sparking questions over what Canada's role will be after the 2011 deadline for ... Read more...
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Iran suspected of planning new nuclear sites: Report
March 28th, 2010 - 9:36 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 28 (DPA) International agencies, inspectors and western intelligence officials believe Tehran is planning to build more nuclear enrichment sites in defiance of international demands, The New York Times reported ... Read more...
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A flurry of visits in run-up to Obama’s India trip
February 1st, 2010 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Feb 1 (IANS) A flurry of visits, reflecting the growing level of Indo-US bilateral engagement since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's November visit, is on the cards in the ... Read more...
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Euromoney names Canada’s Flaherty top finance minister
October 8th, 2009 - 11:57 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, Oct 8 (IANS) Canada's Jim Flaherty has been named the finance minister of the year by Euromoney magazine.
The honour comes after the World Economic Forum rated Canada's performance as the best ... Read more...
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‘Less aid, more debt for poor nations unless G20 changes situation’
September 25th, 2009 - 6:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) The UN Millennium Campaign has just released figures which show that unless rich countries marshal additional resources at the ongoing G20 summit, they are likely to deliver ... Read more...
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Iran ready for talks without preconditions: Official
August 18th, 2009 - 9:02 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 18 (RIA Novosti) Iran is ready to hold talks on its nuclear programme with the West without any preconditions, a senior Iranian official said Tuesday.
"Iran's main position on talks regarding ... Read more...
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Hillary under the ‘mulberry’
July 19th, 2009 - 10:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The drizzle stopped and the sun came out as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at an agricultural research institute Sunday to watch some paddy sowing ... Read more...
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Meeting PM a dream come true, says Orissa tribal girl
July 14th, 2009 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) For 16-year-old Orissa girl Sanyukta Pangi, who represented India in the Junior 8 (J8) summit parallel to the G8-G5 summit in Italy, the highlight of her ... Read more...
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India unaffected by G8 ban on reprocessing fuel
July 14th, 2009 - 8:55 am ICT by IANS
Paris, July 14 (IANS) The decision of the G8 countries to put a ban on helping non-NPT countries to reprocess uranium would have no effect on India, officials accompanying Prime ... Read more...
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India, China have to resist pressure on climate change: PM
July 11th, 2009 - 11:56 am ICT by IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
On board Air India One, July 11 (IANS) India and China need to resist pressure from industrialised countries on the issue of climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said ... Read more...
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Firm on going to school, Orissa girl reaches G8 (Lead changing dateline)
July 10th, 2009 - 6:33 pm ICT by IANS
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 ... Read more...
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Orissa teenager represents India in Rome for J8
July 10th, 2009 - 4:21 pm ICT by IANS
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 ... Read more...
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India hopeful as G8 talks of green fund
July 10th, 2009 - 1:28 pm ICT by IANS
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, ... Read more...
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Climate remains an issue as G8-G5 agree on UN reforms (Roundup)
July 10th, 2009 - 1:37 am ICT by IANS
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 ... Read more...
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G8-G5 agree on global economic crisis, institutional reforms
July 10th, 2009 - 1:37 am ICT by IANS
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 ... Read more...
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Tribal Oriya girl meets G8 leaders in Italy
July 9th, 2009 - 10:45 pm ICT by ANI
By Naveen KapoorL'aquila, July 9 (ANI): A 16 year old tribal girl from Orissa's Koraput district rubbed shoulders with world leaders at the Junior Eight summit in Italy.Sanjukta Pangi is ... Read more...
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J8 meets G8, ask leaders to get tough on climate change defaulters
July 9th, 2009 - 9:20 pm ICT by ANI
L'AQUILA, July 9 (ANI): Fourteen young people from countries attending the G8 today called on their respective leaders to get tough with countries who don't meet climate change targets and teachers whose ... Read more...
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Climate change: developed countries unwilling to commit to 2020 targets
July 9th, 2009 - 3:23 pm ICT by IANS
By Jaideep Sarin
L'Aquila (Italy), July 9 (IANS) Developed countries comprising the G8 are unwilling to commit themselves to reducing greenhouse gas emissions drastically by 2020, despite scientists across the world and ... Read more...
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Russia rejects G8 emissions cut target
July 9th, 2009 - 5:14 am ICT by IANS
L'aquila (Italy), July 9 (RIA Novosti) Russia has refused to back a target of an 80 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 proposed by the Group of Eight (G8) countries, ... Read more...
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After Pope, Geldof attacks Italian PM over failing to deliver Africa aid
July 6th, 2009 - 4:08 pm ICT by ANI
Rome, July 6 (ANI): Ahead of this week's G8 summit, Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof has joined the Pope in assailing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for not being able to ... Read more...
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Poor can’t eat promises, G8 must do more: NGO
July 6th, 2009 - 10:34 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The heads of government who are meeting this week for the G8 Summit in Italy need to find $23 billion a year to halve hunger by 2015, ... Read more...
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Three Indian children to attend J8 summit in Rome
July 4th, 2009 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 4 (ANI): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has picked three children to represent India at the J8 summit, a confluence of young people from countries participating in the ... Read more...
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Israel reiterates promise not to build settlements
June 28th, 2009 - 5:09 pm ICT by ANI
Jerusalem, June 28 (ANI): Responding to international demands that Israel freeze construction in the West Bank, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's media advisor said Israel would do so."The government of Israel has already ... Read more...
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G8 gives Iran until September to respond to US offer
June 26th, 2009 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Trieste (Italy), June 26 (DPA) The world's eight most powerful nations have given Iran until September to respond to a US offer of direct talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, G8 foreign ministers ... Read more...
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Clinton to undergo surgery for elbow fracture
June 19th, 2009 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 19 (IANS) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will undergo surgery for her fractured right elbow, the State Department said.
Clinton, 61, was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where doctors determined ... Read more...
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MPs urge wealthy nations to stand and deliver on climate change
June 12th, 2009 - 3:24 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 12 (IANS) One hundred senior legislators from around the globe meeting in Rome Friday called on the world's wealthiest eight countries to transfer up to $140 billion per year to ... Read more...
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Food security, biofuels top G8 agriculture talks
April 19th, 2009 - 12:28 am ICT by IANS
Cison di Valmarino (Italy), April 18 (DPA) Ensuring global food security, and the role played by biofuels in curbing harmful climate change dominated talks Saturday during the first-ever meeting of agriculture ministers ... Read more...
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AIG losses sink Canadian markets to lowest levels
March 3rd, 2009 - 10:00 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, March 3 (IANS) The record-breaking $61.7 billion quarterly loss reported by the failed American International Group (AIG) Monday sent Canadian markets to their lowest level in five years.
The Toronto Stock Exchange ... Read more...
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Ficci prepares its own wish list for Obama
January 20th, 2009 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) With Barack Obama taking over as the US President Tuesday, a leading industry lobby has identified five areas that it hopes the new leadership will address to ... Read more...
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India should not betray farmers at WTO: ActionAid
July 28th, 2008 - 12:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) International NGO ActionAid has appreciated the strong stand taken by India at the WTO talks in Geneva to protect farmers in developing countries, and has condemned "the ... Read more...
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