World leaders back anti-hunger drive
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year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the United States has poured cold water on the project. &quot;The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that it persists even when we have the means to eliminate it.
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Science & environment: Three withdraw from international body over failure to back GM crops as a solution to global hunger
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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 vowed on Thursday to help  the victims of the most wide-reaching natural disaster in  living memory and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan declared  they were in a "race against time."
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Leaders from Asia and Europe pledged yesterday to tackle everything from climate change to terrorism but dodged calling for the release of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of their two-day summit.
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Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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Some world leaders say they will not be pressured into following economic policies prescribed to them.
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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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World leaders gather at U.N. headquarters on Monday to inject new life into a global campaign to eradicate hunger, which conference organizer Brazil denounces as "the worst of all weapons of mass destruction."
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 16 -- The chiefs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, here for a gathering of financial leaders, sharply rebuked the host government on Friday for barring the entry of 27 accredited members of anti-poverty and environmental organizations. They accused Singapore of...
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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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World leaders who met Thursday at an emergency tsunami summit pushed to give the United Nations the central coordinating role for humanitarian relief and agreed to work toward the development of a regional early warning system for future tsunamis.
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The World Food Programme has boosted the number of beneficiaries by 25 percent in an effort to stave off 'food insecurity.'
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NAIROBI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Food Program (WFP) has said it was gearing up for a &quot;critical stage&#39;&#39; in delivering food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflictin the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had offered little fresh cash for the poor.
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy Sept. 26, 2004 - Pope John Paul II denounced the &quot;imbalance&quot; between the world&#39;s rich and poor Sunday and applauded efforts to eliminate hunger, like the recent UN initiative to increase funds for development.
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Finance leaders from the world's richest nations pledged on Saturday to work together to stabilize world financial markets shaken by the U.S. housing debacle that is puncturing global economic growth.