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The Commonwealth Foundation agreed to switch funding from combating the pandemic to cultural activities in April

Anger as Commonwealth cuts funding for Aids fight

Although 60 per cent of sufferers live in member countries, organisation has turned its back on the cause.

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Commuters brave the pollution in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, China

China sets ambitious target on emissions

Friday, 27 November 2009

Beijing announces it will cut rate of carbon output growth by 40 per cent

The Big Question: What is the Commonwealth's role, and is it relevant to global politics?

Thursday, 26 November 2009

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

Aids: the pandemic is officially in decline

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

UN and World Health Organisation hail steep fall in new HIV infections

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.

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Columnist Comments

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• Andrew Grice: Enough of the philosophy, Mr Cameron.

Think-tanks play an important role in politics. But they have their limits.

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• Christina Patterson: Very nice - but forgiveness is overrated

Sometimes, as Lydon sang, in his post Sex Pistols band, 'anger is an energy.'

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• Mary Dejevsky: Why not call Blair now and wrap it up?

The enquiry already seems like a sideline as the queues dwindle.

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