The Biggest Relief Effort Ever: Germany's Schroeder: "A Catastrophe of Global Scale"
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With estimates suggesting the death toll could surpass 100,000, the full scope of the tsunami tragedy in Southeast Asia is only now beginning to emerge.
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Confirmed deaths and warnings that disease could multiply the horror of Asia's tsunami catastrophe took estimates of the final toll to over 100,000 as the world's biggest ever relief operation stuttered into life against enormous odds.
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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder adopted a resolution today saying the hostage seizure at a Russian school marked a new dimension of the threat posed to all humankind by ...
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder could emerge from the Ukraine election crisis with a stronger hand to pursue one of his key foreign policy objectives -- forging closer economic ties with eastern partner ...
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said the Paris Club of 19 creditor nations should consider letting Indonesia and Somalia delay debt repayments to help them recover from the earthquake
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Gerhard Schroeder, in the first visit to Libya by a German head of government, on Friday praised leader Moammar Gadhafi's "remarkable" change in the course of a country once shunned for its support of ...
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Americans know a good deal when they see it. Today a group of  leading scientists and practitioners from several fields -- agriculture,  medicine, economics, education, engineering -- is making a proposal to  the world. If  rich and poor countries will follow through on the promises  they have made over the past five years  to fight extreme poverty and disease -- and rely on the best science and technology in doing  so -- the world can save millions of lives and extricate hundreds of millions of  its poorest people from the trap of extreme poverty. The cost is a mere 50 cents out of every $100 of rich-world income in the coming decade.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stepped up the German government's pledge of financial aid to tsunami victims to $674 million US Wednesday as European nations moved to step up help to the devastated region.
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Australia promised &#36;764 million &#151; the largest government pledge &#151; to the tsunami relief effort, topping a &#36;674 million German aid package on the eve of a crucial donors' conference Thursday. World leaders were competing to head the donors list as summit participants got firsthand looks at the apocalyptic landscapes carved out by south Asia's tsunami.
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TRIPOLI, Libya - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder flew to Libya offering the prospect of a broad improvement in ties, but aides said he would also raise human rights concerns in talks Friday with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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The German general public have all together donated over 330 million euros (431 million US dollars) for Asia's tsunami victims, the German Central Institute for Social Issues announced on Friday.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder s Social Democratic Party grabbed more support in an opinion poll, reflecting public approval of the government s response to the Asian tsunami disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The largest peace-time  relief effort in history zeroed in on the remote areas of  northern Sumatra that aid had yet to reach while doctors,  troops and relief workers raced to keep tsunami survivors  alive.
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The United States will respond to the unprecedented international catastrophe caused by the tsunamis that engulfed nations on the Indian Ocean.
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A German statesman and a Czech supermodel were among the vacationers whose search for peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was shattered by the tsunamis that spared neither rich nor poor.
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R E G I O N: KABUL: Visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder Monday welcomed Afghanistan's first ever presidential election as a 'breakthrough' for the war-shattered land, struggling with a crippling drugs ...
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European countries are joining international rescue and relief efforts following the Indian Ocean tsunamis.