World leaders find new agenda at Davos
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DAVOS, Switzerland -- Captains of industry, heads of state, central bankers, and economists gather every year in this swank ski resort to contemplate the Phillips curve, exchange rates, and business cycles. The discussion is frequently as dry as the alpine powder or a 2000 Bordeaux.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids must top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum.
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The icy Swiss mountains are to host the world's business and political elite this week for their annual gathering in Davos, where the cooling temperature of the world economy is set to focus minds.
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The G-8 summit that President Bush and seven other world leaders are attending next weekend in Russia is often billed as a gathering of the world&#039;s leading economic powers.
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Leaders of 13 Southeast and Northeast Asian states Monday underlined their determination to turn growing economic power into political influence by establishing a new summit-level grouping.
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World leaders gathering for their annual meeting this week will find a new buzz: The United Nations is back in the global spotlight after securing a cease-fire in Lebanon, trying to revive the Middle East peace process and pressing Sudan to allow U.N. peacekeepers into conflict-wracked Darfur.
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REDDELICH, Germany, June 5 -- The protesters, thousands of them, are packed into a soggy tent city next to a potato field. They have spent months honing tactics and discussing strategy, all for a particular goal: to disrupt the summit of the world's biggest economic powers that begins Wednesday.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are among European leaders taking centre stage at the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of the rich, powerful and famous.
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Leaders of 13 Southeast and Northeast  Asian states Monday underlined their determination to turn  growing economic power into political influence by establishing  a new summit-level grouping.
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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.
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Asian leaders, buoyed by their region's rapidly increasing economic and political clout, tackled issues ranging from trade to global warming with their European counterparts at a Helsinki summit.
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Fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum.
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Poverty, health care and the Middle East top the agenda for a weeklong summit of the Nonaligned Movement that began Monday and will culminate with the meeting of 50 heads of state, including anti-American leaders from Iran and Venezuela.
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Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations and about 20 Arab countries across North Africaand the Middle East are scheduled to meet on Saturday here to discuss reforms
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Upcoming events around the world.
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Finance chiefs from the biggest developing economies on Saturday pushed the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations for a seat at the high table of global economic policy making.
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By Ed Cropley VIENTIANE  - Leaders of 13 Southeast and Northeast Asian states Monday underlined their determination to turn growing economic power into political influence by establishing a new summit-level grouping.