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UN Aids said prevention programmes involving the distribution of condoms have had an impact

Aids: the pandemic is officially in decline

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Obama set to announce plans for Afghan troop deployment

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

President will call for Nato allies to play their part in long-awaited speech next week

President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrive at the White House

America allays Indian fears of neglect with lavish state dinner

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

With lavish food, a live performance by the singer Jennifer Hudson and hours of face-to-face talks, President Barack Obama worked to uphold a tradition of grand hospitality to visiting Indian leaders in Washington while allaying nervousness in Delhi about the future of US-India relations.

Give money to hungry not banks, says UN food chief

Thursday, 19 November 2009

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.

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

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