Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The following is a brief history of the dialogue meetings between leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations and developing countries:
The first dialogue meeting between leaders of the G8 and developing countries was ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Leaders from Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea and the Group of Eight (G8) nations held a major economies leaders meeting on Wednesday to discuss climate change and energy.
The meeting ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations on Wednesday met with their counterparts from Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa for an outreach working session to discuss a range of global issues.
This is the fourth annu ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Members of the U.S. inter-religious group "Pastors for Peace" arrived in Cuba Sunday with 100 tons of humanitarian aid, after overcoming some impediments at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The group, which comes to Cuba every year in order ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
NBC Universal and two private equity firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group clinched a deal on Sunday to buy the Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., according to media report.
Though the financial terms were not disc ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Thousands of demonstrators from the civil group People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on Monday rallied at the Royal Thai Police Headquarters in Bangkok denouncing some senior police officers and the current government for doing in favor of ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
The Group of Eight (G8) will miss its pledge at the Gleneagles summit to double aid to Africa as it has delivered only a small part of the promised aid more than halfway through the plan, the British charity Oxfam said on Monday.
Th ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
U.S. President George W. Bush met his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, on Monday for bilateral discussions ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Hokkaido.
The two met in the morning at the hilltop Windsor Hotel, the venue ...
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