World Leaders Back New UN Drive to Fight Hunger
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Dozens of world leaders on  Monday embraced a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion a  year in development aid to combat hunger, but a U.S. official  poured cold water on the initiative.
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Tens of thousands of children marched against hunger in Liberia Sunday, adding their voices to a global event to tackle food shortages that many in the war-battered west African nation have felt firsthand.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  together to help victims of the most wide-reaching natural  disaster in living memory as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan  declared they were in a "race against time."
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The United Nations' world food body  outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest  nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher  program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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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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The presidents of Brazil and France have called for new efforts to fight poverty and hunger in the developing world, including the controversial creation of an international tax, to combat the negative effects ...
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Asian and European leaders endorsed a stronger role for the United Nations and a multilateral approach to issues including terrorism, regional security and trade as their two-day summit drew to a close in Hanoi today.
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The United Nations began distributing about 40 tons of food from two different places in GonaÃ¯ves today.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  together more closely to help victims of one of the worst  natural disasters in living memory as U.N. Secretary General  Kofi Annan declared they were in a "race against time."
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find &#36;50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.
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United Nations food agencies on Wednesday called for global backing for a "Green Revolution" in Africa to help the continent build stable agricultural systems and rescue tens of millions of people from poverty.
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World leaders gathered at the United Nations on Tuesday to confront an agenda dominated by new terrorist threats, a humanitarian disaster in Sudan, turmoil in Iraq
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With around 100 world leaders converging on New York this week for the UN General Assembly, the hot-button item is Security Council reform.
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More than 250 world figures --  but not the Bush administration -- have urged the United  Nations to promote a population agenda that seeks women's  education, health care and family planning.
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The world rallied to the support of the embattled Palestinian government Monday, with leaders pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in immediate financial support and urging Israel to ease restrictions on movement in the West Bank and Gaza to make a recovery of the Palestinian economy possible.
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New York, Sep 22 (UNI) Emphasising that reforms in the UN were absolutely essential to address various global threats and challenges, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and the leaders of Germany, Japan and Brazil have formally announced the
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary General Kofi Annan received a standing ovation Wednesday from diplomats representing the 191 UN member states, a rare public display of support for the beleaguered UN chief following recent calls for his resignation from