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Give money to hungry not banks, says UN food chief
The director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has questioned how world powers could put so much money into fighting the financial crisis and not feed the one billion hungry.
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Obama bends knee to Chinese might
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
On a carefully orchestrated tour, his hosts' economic power has limited US options, reports Clifford Coonan in Beijing
Britain 'ready' to send more troops
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Allied troops must stay in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban filling any "vacuum", the Foreign Secretary said today.
Greens urge tuna ban
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Environmentalists called for a global ban on the trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, after the body responsible for managing stocks cut quotas but did not suspend fishing of the threatened species.
The 40 million children who just didn't exist
Sunday, 15 November 2009
One charity's campaign to register the births of all children in the developing world is transforming millions of young lives.
America's 'first Pacific president' woos China, North Korea, and Burma
Sunday, 15 November 2009
US President Barack Obama pledged yesterday, in the first major speech of his extensive Asia tour, to deepen dialogue with China rather than seek to contain the rising power.
IoS graphic: UN child report
Sunday, 15 November 2009
IoS graphic: Where to find the world's missing people
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Suicide attack piles pressure on Obama and Brown
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Prime Minister says Nato will send another 5,000 troops to Afghanistan
Karzai told to talk with the Taliban
Saturday, 14 November 2009
The British Government has suggested that the government of Hamid Karzai should talk to the Taliban leadership, the so-called "Quetta Shura", in an attempt to bring insurgents into the political process.
US indecision annoys British Government
Friday, 13 November 2009
British ministers and military chiefs fear that wrangling in the US over the deployment of extra troops risks undermining support for the war in Britain. They are irritated and angry over the delay in obtaining a decision amid signs that President Obama's administration is deeply split over the issue.
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