Brazil's Lula to host poverty, hunger summit
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will lead a summit of world leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly here Monday aimed at fighting hunger and poverty across the globe.
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HAVANA, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Brazilian, Central American and the Caribbean leaders met Tuesday morning at the National Palace of Santo Domingo to discuss regional integration, poverty and foreign debt, said reports from Santo Domingo, capital of ...
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The presidents of Brazil and France called Monday for new efforts to fight poverty in the developing world, including the creation of a controversial international tax, to combat the negative effects of ...
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Brazil's President Lula visits Cuba to strengthen economic ties and amid hopes of seeing the ailing Fidel Castro.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a month of high-stakes campaigning against an inspired challenger who will try to hammer on corruption scandals to unseat the former metalworker in a runoff vote.
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Latin American leaders wrapped up a two-day summit Friday with a pledge to help rid Haiti of political violence and grinding poverty, dispatching a top Brazilian diplomat to the country on a mission to form a rescue plan.
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Brazilian President Luiz InÃ¡cio Lula da Silva announced that, during his visit to New York in September, the governments of Brazil and Chile will meet with other presidents to discuss the creation of an international fund to help the poorest countries
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Intel Corp. said Tuesday its diminutive low-cost laptop will be evaluated in Brazil next year alongside a cheaper alternative from a nonprofit group seeking to bring computers to poor children worldwide.
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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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By Mario Osava/IFEJ *  RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 12, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- The impoverished population of the Brazilian Northeast is preparing for long-term coexistence with drought.
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Brazil is to send an envoy to South Africa for discussions with exiled former Haiti president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Poverty in Africa, global economic growth and revaluation of China's currency were the issues expected to dominate a two-day meeting of top G7 finance ministers.
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ROME, Feb 15 (IPS) - 'Make rural poverty history' is the  centrepiece of a global gathering this week in  Rome. The meeting  will be joined by government ministers of finance, agriculture  and  rural development from 163 member states of the  International Fund for Agricultural  Development (IFAD).
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"This is a summit for all African countries at the highest level, heads of Government or heads of state. All African countries must be invited"  Lisbon: Portugal is prepared to invite President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to a summit of European and African leaders in Lisbon this year despite an European Union travel ban and sanctions against the ... via The Hindu
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- Participating in the World Social Forum for the first time, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank tried to assure social and leftist activists yesterday that they are increasingly heeding calls for a more aggressive fight against poverty.
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The leftist presidents of Brazil and Venezuela meet on Monday to cement a strategic alliance based partly on oil.
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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 &#36;50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.