G8 agrees to $60 billion Africa package
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Friday a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa and restated broader promises to double development spending.
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G8 leaders turn their attention to Africa on the final day of their summit, under pressure to honour aid commitments.
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Libya signed a deal Friday to pay $35 million in compensation to more than 160 victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing in 1986, taking another major step toward ending its international isolation.
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Libya signed a deal here Friday to pay 35 million dollars (about 28 million euros) in compensation to mainly German victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing 18 years ago, an AFP correspondent said.
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In programma intensificazione della lotta all'Aids, tubercolosi e malariaIl presidente degli Usa non partecipa alla sessione mattutina di lavori                                            G8, 60 miliardi di dollari per l'Africa Bush colto da lieve indisposizione
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Germany's chancellor says the leaders of the G8 nations have agreed a compromise deal on climate change.
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Russia pledged on Tuesday to write off  an additional $500 million of African debt, just days before a  Group of Eight summit where Germany will push rich nations to  deliver on promises to help Africa.
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Eleven African countries signed a  U.N.-backed peace deal for the Great Lakes region on Saturday,  pledging to end genocide, war, hunger and disease that killed 3  million over more than a decade.
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A record 22 agreements valued at billions of US dollars were signed yesterday in Beijing between China and Germany while a series of deals were sealed between China Italy.
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Aid to Africa needs to increase by at least 60% if poverty is to be cut, the World Bank said.
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A deal to eliminate import tariffs between Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda came into force Saturday, marking the first major step toward integrating the East African nations into a single economic and investment block.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jun 5 (IPS) - In the final hours before this week's Group of  Eight (G8) summit gets underway in Germany, activists have  underscored the need for progress with both climate change and  poverty alleviation -- key items on the meeting's agenda --  for there to be real improvement in Africa's living  conditions.
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US will consider G8 deal to cut emissions by 50%.
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Libya signed a deal Friday to pay &#36;35 million in compensation to more than 160 victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing in 1986, taking another major step toward ending its international isolation.
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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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Comment is free: Elton John: Millions of people with HIV hope that the G8 will remember its pledge to them next week.
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The United States, Germany and other G7 nations agreed on Saturday to write off up to 80 percent of Iraq's &#36;120 billion foreign debt in a move that could pave the way for a wider international accord, officials said.