Bush: 'Significant progress' on climate change
TOYAKO, Japan - President Bush on Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a broad climate-change strategy, saying in a valedictory to summitry that "significant progress" has been made on global warming.
Nations:India Russia Japan Denmark Zimbabwe Brazil People:Dmitry Medvedev Hu Jintao Activities:Group of Eight
2008-07-09
G8 pledges action on food, oil
TOYAKO, Japan (AFP) - Leaders of the world's top industrial powers ended a summit Wednesday with pledges to act on soaring oil and food prices, but failed to bridge deep differences with poor nations on fighting climate change.
Nations:Japan U.S. Denmark South Africa Italy U.K. People:Yasuo Fukuda Ban Ki-moon Gordon Brown George W. Bush Hu Jintao Activities:Global Food Crisis 2007-8 Oil Crisis Group of Eight 2007 Global Credit Crunch
2008-07-09
G-8 summit opens with spotlight on aid for Africa
RUSUTSU, Japan - Aid for Africa -- and whether enough was coming from the world's major economic powers -- was in the spotlight Monday as the Group of Eight nations met with seven African leaders at its annual summit.
Nations:Japan India China Italy Germany U.K. People:George W. Bush Ban Ki-moon Robert Zoellick Angela Merkel Activities:Group of Eight
2008-07-07
Zimbabwe president's spokesman to West: 'Go hang'
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will not step down and Western critics who called the country's recent election a sham can "go hang," the longtime ruler's spokesman said Tuesday.
Nations:Zimbabwe People:Gordon Brown Activities:2008 Zimbabwe Election Source:(AP)
2008-07-01
Zimbabwe's Mugabe sworn in after discredited vote
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe was sworn in as president for a sixth term Sunday after a widely discredited runoff in which he was the only candidate. His main rival dismissed the inauguration as "an exercise in self-delusion."
Nations:Egypt China Swaziland South Africa Russia Zimbabwe People:Morgan Tsvangirai Robert Mugabe Yang Jiechi Condoleezza Rice Activities:2008 Zimbabwe Election Source:(AP)
2008-06-29
Zimbabwe police raid opposition, election offices
Heavily armed police swooped down on opposition headquarters and independent election observers' offices on Friday, arresting hundreds and beating and shoving scores of people in the clearest signal to date that the government intends to hold on to power.
Nations:Zimbabwe Zambia Activities:2008 Zimbabwe Election
2008-04-25
Zimbabwe opposition leader: I won
The main opposition leader insisted Tuesday he has won Zimbabwe's presidential election outright and denied persistent reports he was negotiating to ease out President Robert Mugabe, who has led the country from liberation to ruin.
People:Morgan Tsvangirai Robert Mugabe Activities:2008 Zimbabwe Election
2008-04-01
Bush discusses civilian deaths in Iraq
President Bush pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday to move on stalled measures deemed critical to political reconciliation, while al-Maliki made clear his unhappiness about the killing of Iraqi civilians by private U.S. security contractors.
Nations:Myanmar Iraq North Korea Belarus Lebanon Zimbabwe People:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Condoleezza Rice Activities:2007 Blackwater Scandal
2007-09-25
China's influence spreads around world
For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables.
Nations:U.S. Brazil China Sudan Bolivia Venezuela People:Mia Farrow Hu Jintao Deng Xiaoping Activities:2007 China Toothpaste Crisis Darfur Genocide Crisis
2007-09-02
Report: Iraq child mortality rate soars
The chance that an Iraqi child will live beyond age 5 has plummeted faster than anywhere else in the world since 1990, according to a report released Tuesday, which placed the country last in its child survival rankings.
Nations:Iceland Egypt Botswana Swaziland Estonia Slovenia Activities:Second Gulf War
2007-05-07
Workers of the world unite for May Day rallies
Workers, students and leftists took to the streets for May Day rallies that stuck to tradition but also showed how the world is changing.
Nations:Cuba Turkey Russia Italy China Bangladesh People:Angela Merkel Fidel Castro Hugo Chavez
2007-05-01
Pope: 'Nothing positive' from Iraq
In an Easter litany of the world's suffering, Pope Benedict XVI lamented that "nothing positive" is happening in Iraq and decried the unrest in Afghanistan and bloodshed in Africa and Asia.
Nations:Italy Afghanistan Netherlands Somalia Russia East Timor Activities:Darfur Genocide Crisis
2007-04-08
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