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UN chief: G8 must go further on emissions
Friday, 10 July 2009
Ban Ki-moon attacks climate change deal
The Big Question: Will it really be possible to meet the G8's climate change targets?
Friday, 10 July 2009
Berlusconi accused of bugging talks
Friday, 10 July 2009
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was at the receiving end of an unusual allegation yesterday when a senior Italian official claimed the Italian delegation had been secretly bugging the deliberations at the G8 summit – which protocol dictates are kept firmly off the record – to help Mr Berlusconi keep up.
'Yes we camp': protests greet wives in quake zone
Friday, 10 July 2009
Michelle Obama, Sarah Brown and 10 other first ladies toured the devastated heart of L'Aquila yesterday, seeing with their own eyes the city's earthquake damage but keeping well away from survivors.
US agrees landmark pledge to slash emissions
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Andrew Grice: G8 commits to cutting carbon output by 80 per cent – and tells China and India to follow suit
Obama says still time to set up climate deal this year
Thursday, 9 July 2009
The G8 failed to get China and India to accept the goal of halving emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
IMF sees shoots of recovery for UK economy
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Having endured its sharpest slump in 75 years, the British economy should return to growth in 2010, according to the latest forecasts from the International Monetary Fund.
Silvio plays host to a powerful lady – and the earth doesn't move
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Yesterday Silvio Berlusconi went back to the city of L'Aquila, and it was as if the past two months of garish revelations about his private life were nothing but a horrible dream.
G8 leaders discuss economy and climate change deal
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
World leaders agreed that the global economy is too unstable to begin rolling back massive fiscal stimulus plans in the near future, according to a draft of the Group of Eight statement on the world economy obtained by The Associated Press.
Honour your promises over aid, G8 leaders urge Berlusconi
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Italian summit host under fresh pressure to help world's poorest nations
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