World Politics
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.
Inside World Politics
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
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
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.
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.
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