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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Meeting PM a dream come true, says Orissa tribal girl

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 ...

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India unaffected by G8 ban on reprocessing fuel

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 ...

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India, China have to resist pressure on climate change: PM

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 ...

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Firm on going to school, Orissa girl reaches G8 (Lead changing dateline)

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 ...

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Orissa teenager represents India in Rome for J8

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 ...

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India hopeful as G8 talks of green fund

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, ...

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Climate remains an issue as G8-G5 agree on UN reforms (Roundup)

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 ...

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G8-G5 agree on global economic crisis, institutional reforms

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 ...

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Tribal Oriya girl meets G8 leaders in Italy

Tribal Oriya girl meets G8 leaders in Italy

July 9th, 2009 - 10:45 pm ICT by ANI -
By Naveen Kapoor L'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 ...

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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 ...

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Climate change: developed countries unwilling to commit to 2020 targets

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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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India should not betray farmers at WTO: ActionAid

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 ...

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India hopeful of getting ‘clean exemption’ from NSG

India hopeful of getting ‘clean exemption’ from NSG

July 12th, 2008 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS -
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The Indian government Saturday said it was "hopeful" of getting "clean, unconditional exemption" from the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group and underlined that it did not expect any ...

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Indias first priority is spurring economic growth: Manmohan

Indias first priority is spurring economic growth: Manmohan

July 9th, 2008 - 10:17 pm ICT by ANI -
Sapporo (Japan), July 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that Indias first priority is spurring economic growth so that it could eradicate dire poverty. The Prime Minister called on G8 ...

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G8 reaffirms aid pledge to Africa, NGOs unimpressed

July 8th, 2008 - 6:55 pm ICT by IANS -
DPA Toyako (Japan), July 8 (DPA) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) highly industrialized countries vowed Tuesday to honour a pledge to raise by $25 billion the level of annual aid ...

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