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Brown and Sarkozy's charm offensive secures £7bn for African climate fund
Two leaders put differences aside for second day running to gain agreement on tackling emissions
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Miliband snubbed by US over prisoner's release
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Attempt to secure freedom for last Briton in Guantanamo Bay is rejected
When war is just – by Obama the peace prize winner
Friday, 11 December 2009
US President's Nobel speech forecasts more bloodshed to come in Afghanistan
Obama 'doesn't deserve' peace prize
Thursday, 10 December 2009
President Barack Obama will accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo this morning, tackling head-on the paradox in his receiving the accolade just 10 days after committing an additional 30,000 US troops to the war in Afghanistan.
UN warns of rising tensions as refugees flood into cities
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Mass movement to urban centres is huge problem for developing countries, says UN
Debategraph: Copenhagen - what's happening?
Monday, 7 December 2009
The world is winning the landmine war
Sunday, 6 December 2009
David Randall: The fight to clear landmines gets little coverage, but it is changing millions of lives.
Who said the special relationship was dead?
Saturday, 5 December 2009
George W. Bush and Tony Blair were "shoulder to shoulder" – but with David Miliband and Hillary Clinton, it is more a case of "eye to eye", as the world can see from these pictures taken yesterday as Nato foreign ministers convened in Brussels.
Obama's Nato allies to send 7,000 troops
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Barack Obama's Nato allies yesterday pledged about 7,000 additional troops as part of a fresh military surge in Afghanistan. The offers of additional troops were made at Nato headquarters amid strong pressure from Washington on the Alliance to help "turn the tide" against the Taliban.
UK 'suddenly' let in on Bush war plans
Saturday, 5 December 2009
US military leaders opened up after Blair met President at Texas ranch
Italy to provide 1,000 troops for Obama's surge in Afghanistan
Friday, 4 December 2009
Italy will send around 1,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan as part of US President Barack Obama's planned troop increase, the Italian Defence Minister, Ignazio La Russa, said in an interview published yesterday.
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