Campaigners salute Britain's pledge to scrap poor nations' debt
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Campaign groups welcomed a commitment by Britain to write off debts owed by the world's poorest nations to the World Bank ( news - web sites ), a move they said should pressure other Group of Seven rich ...
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The world&#39;s richest nations need to show greater commitment towards Africa, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, amid concern that pledges on aid and development were falling short.
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Leading politicians praise England's efforts after their defeat by South Africa in the rugby union World Cup final.
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Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown said that he had enlisted Nelson Mandela to campaign for a "Marshall Plan" for Africa to wipe out billions of dollars in debt and draw billions more in aid.
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Gordon Brown says the UK will write off its share of debts owed by the world's poorest countries to the World Bank.
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The UK is to pay off 10 percent of the money owed by the world&#39;s poorest countries to the World Bank and the African Development Bank in an attempt to free them from &quot;the shackles of debt&quot;, British Finance Minister Gordon Brown was to announce today.
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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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Britain congratulated Ghanaian President John Kufuor on his election victory, and praised the west African state for holding free, fair and transparent elections.
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The US has written off on Friday all of its $4.1bn in Iraqi debt and called on other nations to follow suit. At a ceremony in Washington to mark the move, US Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed the move
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The Government is poised to divert an extra Â£100 pounds a year of financial aid relief to help some of the world&#39;s most impoverished countries deal with interest payments and perennial debt, according to press reports.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown says rich countries have a 'moral duty' to tackle world poverty
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A US Treasury Department spokesman on Monday gave a positive, though muted, reception to a British proposal to ease the debt of heavily indebted poor countries, which was unveiled over the weekend.
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LONDON, Sep 15 (IPS) - ? The British government statement that it is    withholding some funds from the World Bank has drawn conditional    praise from aid agencies.
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Britain honored Nelson Mandela on Wednesday by unveiling a bronze statue of South Africa's first black president alongside those of statesmen such as Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
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Britain praised Afghanistan's &quot;inspirational&quot; elections, saying the high turnout was a milestone for the central Asian state recovering from decades of conflict.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown outlines his plans to increase aid to developing countries and eliminate debt owed by poorer nations
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Britain plans to spend an extra Â£100 million (NZ$273.74 million) a year on debt relief for some of the world&#39;s poorest countries, the Guardian newspaper reported today.