G-8 Approves Aid for Africa, Warns Iran
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"We said that on behalf of the countries of the G-8, that we are aware of our obligations and we would like to fulfill the promises that we entered into and we are going to do that."  Leaders of the Group of Eight agreed Friday on a $60 billion package to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa and warned Iran over its disputed nuclear program, closing out a summit of the world's richer nations.But a deal could not be reached on the the independence-seeking Serbian province of Kosovo during three days of talks at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm.About half of the $60 billion was pledged earlier by the U.S., and other nations will contribute the rest, Germany's development minister said. Read more
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Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized nations will end their summit Friday with a pledge to help nations on the world's poorest continent.
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U.N. nuclear agency governors on Thursday approved cuts in technical aid to Iran to uphold U.N. sanctions implemented over concern that Tehran may be trying to master the means to build atom bombs.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami arrived in Khartoum to start a three-day visit to Africa's biggest country whose government has come under pressure to act over what the United Nations terms a humanitarian crisis in the western region of Darfur.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had pledged little fresh cash for the poor.
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U.N. nuclear agency governors on Thursday ratified cuts in technical aid to Iran over concern that Tehran might be trying to build nuclear bombs.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday called on G8 leaders meeting this week to agree concrete measures to help Africa and on the United States to go further in proposals on climate change.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his first visit to Sudan on Wednesday extended full support to his counterpart Omar al-Beshir, blaming the United States and its allies for the region's woes.
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Iran on Saturday brushed aside warnings by G8 leaders that it would face further U.N. sanctions if it failed to halt uranium enrichment work.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Friday a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived here late Tuesday for a G8 foreign ministers meeting where she hopes to gain support for UN resolutions on Iran&#39;s nuclear programme, Kosovo and Darfur.
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Palestinians could receive as much as  $8 billion in aid over the next four years from the United  States, Europe and Arab nations if progress is made in the  Palestinians' push for peace with Israel, the New York Times  reported on Friday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair wants China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa to join the G8 to secure multilateral deals on trade, climate change and Iran, The Guardian newspaper said.
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Sudan on Thursday agreed to ease restrictions to humanitarian aid access throughout Africa's largest country after a meeting with the Canadian prime minister in the Sudanese capital.
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President George W. Bush named eight more countries on Thursday to receive U.S. assistance for malaria prevention and treatment in Africa, where the disease kills a million people a year, and asked Europeans to do more to help.
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The prime minister tells the BBC tackling Aids in Africa will be a priority when Britain takes the helm of the G8.
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Developing nations, including Iran,   North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba, moved to forged a anti-U.S.   alliance and support Tehran's right to nuclear technology at a   summit of Non-Aligned nations on Saturday.