World leaders back anti-hunger drive
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More than 100 countries have endorsed a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion (28 billion pounds) a year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the
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Anti-poverty and anti-globalisation campaigners meeting at a parallel forum to counter the G8 summit on Wednesday took industrialised nations to task over unfulfilled pledges made two years ago to the world&#39;s poorest.
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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A papal endorsement is priceless for an international march against hunger. But getting access is the key to making it happen
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Dozens of world leaders appealed at UN headquarters on Monday for an international initiative to ensure the poor can join the wealthy in sharing in the benefits of a global economy.
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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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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy - Pope John Paul II denounced the "imbalance" between the world's rich and poor Sunday and applauded efforts to eliminate hunger, like the recent U.N. initiative to increase funds for development...
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat.
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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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The United States, the world's largest donor of food aid, needs to budget more than a proposed $1.2 billion a year to fight hunger effectively around the world, an anti-hunger coalition recommended on Monday.
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LONDON, Jan 6 (IPS) - World leaders need to cancel debts of poor tsunami-   hit countries rather than just freeze them for now, leading  campaigners  say.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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Thousands are going hungry in the Andean mountain region of southern Peru, says the World Food Programme.
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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 $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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BERLIN, May 24  (IPS) - With two weeks to go to this year's summit of  heads of state and government of the world's eight most  industrialised countries (G8), respect for demonstrators'  rights and the fulfilment of the group's economic aid  promises for Africa are at the heart of the preparations.
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World leaders are realising that big donations for tsunami aid can yield political benefits, says the BBC's John Simpson.
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Kofi Annan gently prodded world leaders to follow through on their aid pledges, which now total more than $3 billion.