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Obama Trip To Russia, Italy, Ghana Creates High Expectations (SCHEDULE, VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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President Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir this week, calling for a new relationship with the form...

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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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The Italian Job: What the 2009 G8 Summit Must Deliver on Health and Aid for Africa

World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Aid, G8, Un, Africa, Health, Millenium Development Goal, Marshall Plan, World Bank, g20, G-20, World News
World Vision

While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.

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India To Reject Curbing CO2 Emissions

e360.yale.edu | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

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India will not accept limits on its greenhouse gas emissions at climate talks later this year and instead will focus on economic growth and lifting it...

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Canada Comes In Last On WWF Climate Report Card

treehugger.com | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Living, Wwf, G8, Green, Environment, Climate Change, Canada, Global Warming, Green News

To the surprise of nobody who lives there, Canada has come in dead last on a climate report card prepared by the World Wildlife Foundation. The US is ...

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Stimulate This!

Christiana Wyly | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: G8, G20 Summit, World Economy, United Nations Climate Change, Global Economy, Economy, United Nations, Un, g20, James Quilligan, World News
Christiana Wyly

Without coordinated efforts by developed nations to help the world's poorest nations, 100 million people may fall into extreme poverty each year for the foreseeable future.

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G8 Attacks Iran Over Postelection Violence

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

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TRIESTE, Italy — Group of Eight foreign ministers criticized Iran's postelection violence, and urged its ruling clergy on Friday to ensure the o...

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G8 Condemns North Korea Over Nuclear Test, Rocket launch

nasdaq.com | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

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Group of Eight leading nations' foreign ministers Friday strongly condemned North Korea for its nuclear test and long-range rocket launch, saying in a...

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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

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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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Let Us See if Italy Keeps Faith With the World's Poor

Bob Geldof | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: African Aid, G8, Desmond Tutu, World Economy, Silvio Berlusconi, ONE Campaign, Africa, Italy G8, Aids, World News
Bob Geldof

Italy has only done 3% of what Prime Minister Berlusconi personally and nationally promised to Africa in 2005. So it is quite proper to ask -- what legitimacy does Italy have to run the G8 this year?

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Berlusconi, Obama To Meet In U.S.

BBC NEWS | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

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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

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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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Report: Pontiac Dies on Monday

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business

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Steve Parker

Pontiac was chosen as the "easiest" to kill since it was cut from GM's self-defined herd of four "core brands," Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick.

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NGO Leaders Challenge G-20 Summit To Expand Scope

Huffington Post Contributors | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

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By: Irene Khan - Secretary General, Amnesty International Dr Gerd Leipold - Executive Director, Greenpeace International Jeremy Hobbs - Executive Dir...

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Time of Crisis and Opportunity

Kofi Annan | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: G8, Developing World, Global Economy, Economy, Davos, Africa, g20, Globalization, Climate Change, Kofi Annan, Global Financial Crisis, Development, Davos 2009, Global Warming, African Economy, World Economic Forum, World News
Kofi Annan

At Davos, our business and political leaders must show they understand that our world has shifted for good and that we have to change with it or perish.

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Palin at the G8

Craig Barnes | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: G8, Financial Crisis, Sarah Palin, Ukraine, Politics News
Craig Barnes

Are the American people going to put Sarah Palin in a position from which she might have to be the one to lead a cabinet of economic and financial ad...

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KCRW's Left Right & Center

Huff Radio | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, G8, John McCain, US Pullout of Iraq, Houses, Iraq, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign 2008, Politics News
Huff Radio

Pulling out of Georgia; Pulling out of Iraq; How many houses do you need to run for President? Is Russia honoring its deadline to pull out of Georgia...

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World Economic Hangover

John Feffer | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hangover, G8, Wto, Officious Language, World Trade Organization, Poor Writing, Writing, Bureaucracy, Politics News
John Feffer

My hands tremble when I open a document from the World Trade Organization. The language is either boring, technical, or obscure. But when I figure out what the documents are saying, I feel even worse.

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The G8 Punts on Climate Change

Walden Bello | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: G8, Climate Change, Energy, G8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hokkaido, Carbon Emissions, G8 Summit, Kyoto Protocol, Environment, Kyoto, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Walden Bello

The G8's endorsement of a 50% reduction in emissions by 2050 is a giant step backward and may have effectively undermined the prospects for an effective global climate strategy for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

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"Fantasy Dessert" Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Global Food Crisis, Food Crisis, World Bank, G8, Hunger, World Hunger, G8 Fantasy Dessert, Food Prices, Green News
Frances Moore Lappe

We're facing the biggest human rights crisis of my lifetime: The U.K.'s ActionAid estimates that current price spikes may have doubled the number of hungry and food-insecure people to 1.7 billion.

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George Bush: "Goodbye From the World's Biggest Polluter"

A. Siegel | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

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A. Siegel

It is impressive that, after all these years of idiocy and bad policy making, that George W. Bush is able to shock me as well. And, it wasn't only national leaders who were in shock.

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Japan's Carbon-Neutral Home: Leave Your Carbon Footprint At The Door

Wall Street Journal | Lisa Thomas | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon-Neutral Home, Kyoto Treaty, G8, Green Living, Zero-Emissions House, Reducing Emissions, Japan, Green News

As leaders of the world's most powerful nations discuss climate change at the Group of Eight summit in northern Japan, Japan's big tech companies are ...

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