G8 leaders set to end summit with Africa pledge
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers will turn their attention to Africa on Friday and are widely expected to announce a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases.
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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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The European Union, backed by France&#39;s first lady, pushed Monday for an end to the eight-year ordeal of six foreign medics jailed for life for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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An African Union summit devoted to integration ended on Tuesday without agreement on a firm timetable on the establishment of a government for the continent after deep division emerged among leaders.
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Pacific Rim leaders ended a two-day summit with pledges to push ahead with negotiations to lower global trade barriers, seen as impediments to the world&#39;s economic growth.
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African nations are engaged in last-ditch negotiations on elephants and ivory as the CITES meeting nears its end.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe headed for the Group of Eight summit in Germany on Tuesday pledging to take the initiative in the fight against global warming.
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OUAGADOUGOU  - Leaders from 36 French-speaking countries wrapped up a summit in Burkina Faso, with a call to the protagonists in the Ivory Coast conflict to implement a French-brokered pact to restore peace.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 4 (IPS) - Facing the probability that this year's G8  summit will be a failure -- mainly due to U.S. opposition to an  international consensus on environmental, financial, and African  cooperation issues -- the German government, host of the event,  is scaling down the expectations that it helped to stir in the  first place.
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Ministers of some 22 Middle East and North African countries and G-8 nations ended their one-day meeting of &quot;the Forum for the Future&quot; and vowed to continue their reforms.
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Leaders from Asia and Europe pledged on Saturday to tackle everything from climate change to terrorism but dodged calling for the release of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of their two-day summit.
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The prime minister tells the BBC tackling Aids in Africa will be a priority when Britain takes the helm of the G8.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the Group of Eight were close on Thursday to agreeing a need for "substantial" cuts in world greenhouse gas emissions, falling short of European calls to halve emissions by 2050.
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The drive towards forging a United States of Africa was running out of steam Wednesday as leaders filed away from a summit without agreeing on a timeline for creating a new government for the continent.
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¡¡ PORT LOUIS, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Southern African countries Tuesday pledged better trade and investment relations with China as well as India in the final communique released at the end of their two-day summit.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair this week will put efforts to curb disease and poverty in Africa at the center of the agenda of the Group of Eight industrial nations next year.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Group of Eight leaders were near agreement on Thursday on a goal of "substantial" cuts in world greenhouse gas emissions, well short of European calls to halve emissions.