Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks
PITTSBURGH - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
Nations:France India Source:(AP)
2008-07-23
Freddie Mac mulling $10 billion share offer
New York - Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is considering raising capital by selling as much as $10 billion in new shares to investors, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Nations:India Activities:2007 Global Credit Crunch Source:(Wall Street Journal)
2008-07-18
Lehman CEO mulls ways to take bank private
New York - Lehman Brothers (LEH.N) Chief Executive Richard Fuld is considering ways to take the Wall Street investment bank private, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.
Nations:India Activities:2007 Global Credit Crunch U.S. Markets Source:(New York Post)
2008-07-15
Pre-Olympics security sweep nets foreigners, Chinese alike
BEIJING — When Dechen Pemba , a British citizen, walked out of her Beijing apartment at 8:55 one morning this week, she found seven to eight security agents milling about waiting for her.
Nations:China U.K. India People:Dalai Lama Activities:2008 Beijing Olympics Source:(McClatchy)
2008-07-09
Developing economies don't back G-8 climate goal
TOYAKO, Japan - A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was "one of the great global challenges of our time" and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major economies said they supported longterm and midterm goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, but endorsed no targets.
Nations:India Japan China Germany Italy Russia People:Ban Ki-moon George W. Bush Source:(AP)
2008-07-09
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
G8 set for showdown with poorer states over climate
TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Big emerging economies will come under pressure on Wednesday to respond in kind to an initiative by rich countries to work towards a target of at least halving their global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Nations:India China Denmark Germany Japan U.K. People:Gordon Brown Hu Jintao Activities:Group of Eight Source:(Reuters)
2008-07-08
G-8 endorses halving global emissions by 2050
RUSUTSU, Japan - World leaders on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets.
Nations:Japan U.S. Germany China Denmark India People:Yasuo Fukuda Angela Merkel Hu Jintao Activities:Group of Eight
2008-07-08
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
40 dead in Indian embassy blast in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan - A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 40 people in the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said.
Nations:Afghanistan Pakistan India People:Hamid Karzai Activities:Afghan Terror War Source:(AP)
2008-07-07
Food Prices: Hunger Strikes
As the sun sets over Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, a sweet smell wafts through a small house where Malahasen Juma is cooking dinner for her eight children: a handful of onions, chopped and tossed into a pot of steaming maize porridge and leftover vegetables. Until recently Juma would spice up suppers with beef or fish stews. But not now. "Everything is more expensive," she says. "The children need milk, but I cannot afford that. Meat is a luxury now, not a necessity. We are just living at God's mercy."
Nations:India Somalia Uganda Myanmar China Niger People:Ban Ki-moon Robert Zoellick George W. Bush Activities:Global Food Crisis Source:(Time)
2008-06-11
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