U.S. touts Doha food aid accord, but details elusive
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After talks among trading powers  collapsed last month, the United States singled out a new  consensus on food aid as a bright spot in an otherwise bleak  negotiation threatening to derail a world trade deal.
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RABAT, Morocco _ A high-profile effort by the Bush administration to spark reform across the Middle East was greeted with skepticism here Saturday as Arab leaders, including close US allies, questioned
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has approved requests by Iraq and Afghanistan to begin membership negotiations, but Iran&#39;s bid for such talks was again blocked by the United States.
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The United Nations' world food body outlined steps on Monday meant to help the world's poorest nations combat soaring food prices, including a new voucher program for farmers and a review of food-guzzling biofuels.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought explanations on Sunday from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about a unity government that Israel said it had agreed with Washington to shun.
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Washington has just given its ally another chance to receive development aid.
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Impoverished North Korea's first steps to take apart its nuclear arms program may reap the reward of food aid from the South when the two hold their first high-level meeting in months on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is willing to hold limited face-to-face talks with North Korea and will continue to help feed the country, but will not sweeten a proposed trade of economic concessions for a halt in development of nuclear weapons, the US ambassador to South Korea said yesterday.
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BRUSSELS, Aug. 26 -- The United States will have to wait until next year to see its fight with the European Union over biotech foods resolved, as the World Trade Organization agreed to an E.U. request to bring scientists into the debate, officials said Thursday.
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GENEVA, Jul 18 (IPS) - Several developing countries said Wednesday they  will oppose a steep down payment being demanded from them in  market access commitments for industrial goods as proposed in a  compromise draft text to revive the troubled Doha trade  negotiations.
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US trade negotiators will deliver a firm message to their European counterparts this morning in Brussels, Belgium: The Bush administration wants to scrap a 12-year-old aerospace trade pact and craft a wholly new accord that bars government loans, two
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The country is split over a possible permanent trade deal with the US.
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Geneva, June 17 (Jiji Press)--Japan on Sunday agreed with nine other food-importing nations belonging to the World Trade Organization that they will oppose the establishment of farm product tariff ceilings in the Doha round of free trade talks.
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Providing more humanitarian relief and freer movement across borders are ways the U.S. may be able to help improve the lives of Palestinians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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The Bush administration is fighting congressional efforts to slash the amount of emergency food aid the United States provides around the world, saying the cuts could hurt as many as 8 million people in dire need.
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The World Trade Organization opened an investigation Monday into whether the United States was violating international commerce rules that limited subsidies to American farmers.