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A Surprisingly Successful G-20 Summit

Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Emerging Nations, G-20 Summit, Financial Services, Bank of International Settlements, Voting Rights, President Barack Obama, G-8, Global Governance, G-7, Financial Crisis, Imf, Pittsburgh, Bonuses, Board for Financial Stability, World Bank, Istanbul, World News
Georges Ugeux

This year, President Obama drove a very different agenda -- one focused on discussing how the world can form global governance and cooperate to stimulate the ailing economies.

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Power Shift, the Stunning Rise of the G20

Barry D. Wood | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Obama G-20, G20 Meeting, Obama g20, Brazil, George W. Bush, United Nations, g20, Barack Obama, G-20, G20 Summit, G-20 Summit, South Korea, G8, G-8, g20 Pittsburgh, G-7, China, World News
Barry D. Wood

In the span of just ten months, key developing countries have accomplished what they could not achieve in the previous half a century: They have shouldered aside the staid 7 nation club to take a seat at the table.

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Climate Change Requires a Real Movement

Mohamed Nasheed | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, The Age of Stupid, Climate Change, The Maldives, Indian Ocean, G-8, Green News
Mohamed Nasheed

For the Maldives, climate change is no vague or distant irritation but a clear and present danger to our survival.

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When Planning a Pregnancy Can Save a Woman's Life

Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Maternal Death, Foreign Affairs, Health, G-8, Unicef, Maternal Health, Advocacy, Maternal Mortality, World News
Dr. Ana Langer

The number of maternal deaths has remained virtually unchanged for the past two decades. This is unconscionable, and it's why the Group of Eight leaders recently agreed that the world must do more.

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25 Years After Band Aid, Diminished Foreign Aid and Drought Threaten Ethiopia's Food Security

Chloe Malle | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Band Aid, Ethiopia, Kenya, Bob Geldof, United Nations, Famine, G-8, East Africa, Somalia, World Food Programme, Meles-Zenawi, World News
Chloe Malle

International aid agencies predict this winter may bring the worst food crisis to Ethiopia since the infamous famine of 1984-85.

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Jim Chanos Warned Brown, Geithner, and Others about Coming Financial Crash in 2007

Rob Johnson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Brown, Financial Crisis, Banks, G-8 Summit, Timothy Geithner, Jim Chanos, Paul Singer, G-8, Politics News
Rob Johnson

Chanos and Paul Singer briefed prominent policy officials about the growing financial instability. They told officials that banks that were about to sink the global economy. They called for decisive action. And they were ignored.

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Larry Kudlow -- CNBC's Answer to Glenn Beck

Bill Mann | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnbc, Cnn, Joe Scarborough, Michele Bachmann, G-8, Larry Kudlow, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Media News
Bill Mann

Fox News boor Bill O'Reilly is constantly whining about NBC's supposed liberal bias. Someone should remind this clown about Larry Kudlow, the capitalist tool.

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Diminishing Returns for Obama's Summiteering?

William Bradley | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Italy, G-8, Africa, Ghana, Barack Obama, Accra, Moscow, Sarah Palin, Copenhagen, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Un, G-20, Dmitri Medvedev, Msnbc, Media Culture, Michael Jackson, Cnn, Fox News, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Nato, Eastern Europe, Poland, Czech Republic, Media News
William Bradley

American media, especially cable TV news, is moving more into infotainment mode, stuck on a few areas. Geopolitics has never been its strong suit, and political coverage is mostly focused on food fights.

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From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 08.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, G-8, Law, Greed, Carbon Emissions, United Nations, Ireland, Globalization, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Mary Robinson, Human Rights, Climate Justice, Green Technology, Recession Fears, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Seattle, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.

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Obama: Congress "Tougher" Than G-8

The Hill | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: India, G-8 Summit, Congress, Ghana, U.S. Congress, President Obama, G-8, Obama, China, Barack Obama, Politics News

As a summit of world leaders in Italy concluded, President Obama said dealing with Congress is more difficult than negotiating global issues with the ...

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What Are They Staring At? Nominations For Most Awkward G-8 Photo

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: G-8 Photo, G8 Photo, Silvio Berlusconi, Barack Obama, G8 Meeting, G-8, G8, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News

While we of course do not claim to know anyone's thoughts, we nominate these two photos top candidates for most awkward picture of the G-8 meeting. S...

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Global Warming Accord Spells Lifestyle Changes

Yahoo! News | ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Global Warming Summit, Global-Warming-G-8-Summit, Global Warming, Climate Change, G-8, Green News

Leaders of the world's biggest and dirtiest economies have agreed for the first time to limit the warming of the earth to a relatively safe 2 degrees ...

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G8 Summit Opens To Developing Market Economies

AP | COLLEEN BARRY and JANE WARDELL | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

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L'AQULA, Italy — Britain and the United States may see room for more stimulus. Germany is worried that it has done too much already. The leader...

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G8 Italy Summit: Friday (VIDEO)(SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: India, Italy, G8 Summit, Foreign Affairs, United States, G-8 Italy Summit, Barack Obama, G-8 Summit, Silvio Berlusconi, G-8, G8, Climate Change, G8 Italy, China, Advocacy, Slideshow, G8 Summit Declaration, Dmitry Medvedev, Angela Merkel, Slidepoll, G8 Italy 2009, Italy Summit, World News

We'll be following the Group of 8 Summit in L'Aquila here with news, photos and video. Feel free to check back at regular intervals for updates. ***...

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G-8 Nations Can't Agree On Climate Change Plan

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Mexico, Italy, China, Green Energy, Brazil, Climate Change, G-8 Global Warming, G-8 Summit, G-8 Conference, G-8 Italy, South Africa, G-8 Climate Change, Barack Obama, G-8, G8 Italy Summit, India, Global Warming, Green News

The world's major industrial nations and emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on significant cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, unraveling an e...

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100 Activists Climb Coal Chimneys To Demand G-8 Leaders Get Tough

Yahoo! News | 1 Hr 18 Mins Ago | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: G-8 Summit, Green Activism, G-8, Green Protest, G8, Climate Change, Italy, Global Warming, G-8 Global Warming, Green News

The Greenpeace group said that more than 100 of militants on Wednesday climbed the chimneys of four coal power stations across Italy to demand tough a...

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Hu Jintao Skips Obama Meeting To Return Home Due To Ethnic Fighting

nytimes.com | ALAN COWELL | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

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PARIS President Hu Jintao of China cut short a trip to Italy on Wednesday to fly home after the deadly ethnic clashes in the northwestern Xinjiang reg...

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G8 Summit Italy - Everything You Need To Know

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: G-8 Italy, G-8 Summit, G-8 2009, Silvio Berlusconi, L'Aquila, G8, Group of Eight, G-8, g5, G8 Italy, G8 2009, World News

When world leaders converge in the Italian city of L'Aquila this week for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit, the economic crisis and global warming will...

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Get Ready: Global Warming To Be Hot Topic at G8 Summit In Italy

McClatchy | Steven Thomma | Posted 08.06.2009 | Green

Read More: G-8 Summit, Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Warming G-8 Summit, G-8, G8, Green News

Will the United States and Europe act by themselves to cut emissions of the heat-trapping gases that are causing long-term global warming and will the...

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Italy G8 Membership Challenged Leading Up To Summit

The Guardian | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

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Preparations for Wednesday's G8 summit in the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila have been so chaotic there is growing pressure from other member state...

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Obama, Pope To Meet In Italy

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama will meet on July 10, a much-anticipated Vatican audience with a president under att...

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Berlusconi Boycott By G8 Leaders' Wives Proposed By Academics

Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Berlusconi, Berlusconi Gaffes, Silvio Berlusconi, Berlusconi Scandal, Berlusconi Divorce, Foreign Affairs, G-8, G8, G8 Italy Summit, G8 Italian Summit, Berlusconi Gaffe, G-8 Italy Summit, G8 Italy, Berlusconi Queen, Advocacy, World News

A group of Italian female academics is pushing for the wives of G8 leaders to not attend the G8 Italy Summit as a boycott against Italian Prime Minist...

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Italy Gives Iran G8 Deadline

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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ROME — Italy considers its G-8 meeting invitation to Iran rejected since Tehran has not yet responded, the foreign minister said Monday in a sig...

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Berlusconi, Obama To Meet In U.S.

BBC NEWS | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Silvio Berlusconi, G-8, G8, Berlusconi Us, Italy, Obama Berlusconi, Berlusconi u.s., Berlusconi Obama, World News

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's joke about the newly-elected Barack Obama being "young, handsome and sun-tanned" hangs over him on his firs...

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Bono Aid Group: Italy Fails Africa In Humanitarian Aid

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: Africa Aid, Silvio Berlusconi, Foreign Affairs, G-8, G8, Africa, Bill Gates, Italy, Italy Africa Aid, Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldof, Advocacy, Bono, World News

LONDON - Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid gro...

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