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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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President Barack Obama at a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People

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.

Women and children attend a civil registration event. Without registration there can be no birth certificate, no identity card, no passport and no proof of age or parentage

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.

Obama with South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak in Singapore yesterday

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

Crowds gather around destroyed vehicles following a suicide bomb detonated near Camp Phoenix, a logistics support base for US forces just outside Kabul, yesterday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack

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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