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GERMANY: Warming Climate Helps Some Species, Kills Others
The weather conditions in the heart of Europe were abnormal last year - the summer too hot, too dry, and too long, and the winter too warm. But they were excellent for some foreign species, which, benefiting from the changed weather, settled in Germany, and have become a headache - or worse - for farmers and just about everybody else.CORRUPTION: Chirac’s Immunity Is Over, But…
For the last six years, the date Jun. 16, 2007 was the most awaited day by many in France. It was the day that ended immunity for former president Jacques Chirac from pending corruption cases over his 12-year mandate as head of state.G8: Much Talk, Too Few Results
This year's summit of the G8 heads of government will likely be remembered as a "how not to" organise such an event, for the contrast between the expectations it raised and its negligible accomplishments, and for its enormous security costs.
G8: Much Talk, Too Few Results
This year's summit of the G8 heads of government will likely be remembered as a "how not to" organise such an event, for the contrast between the expectations it raised and its negligible accomplishments, and for its enormous security costs.
G8: Summit Falls Short on Africa Aid, Hedge Fund Regulation
The Group of Eight industrialised countries (G8) agreed to allocate 60 billion dollars in new aid to Africa in "the coming years", to beef up the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and to improve primary education across the continent.
CLIMATE CHANGE: US, Russian Reticence Leaves Loophole in G8 Deal
The agreement reached by the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised countries on halving greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050 is only a rhetorical breakthrough, for the United States and Russia only accept "to consider seriously" to join the other group members in the effort.DEVELOPMENT: The ‘Good Guys’ Chastise the G8 ‘Villains’
"You shouldn't have any doubts, the good guys are us," says Patrick, 20, dressed in jeans, t-shirt, and a sport jacket, with a flamboyant pink Mohawk haircut, as he reads a pamphlet on development aid for Africa.G8: Cacophony on Global Warming
The summit of the heads of government of the eight most industrialised countries opened Wednesday in this Baltic seaside resort, surrounded by impressive security measures, and dominated by a total cacophony on the group's efforts to curb climate change.
G8: Cacophony on Global Warming
The summit of the heads of government of the eight most industrialised countries opened Wednesday in this Baltic seaside resort, surrounded by impressive security measures, and dominated by a total cacophony on the group's efforts to curb climate change.G8-RUSSIA: Dissent Within, Confrontation Without
As if the summit of the eight most industrialised countries did not have enough problems in fulfilling its own agenda this week, the group's members are also aligning in a confrontation along international borders and actions that recall those of the Cold War.G8: Facing Summit Failure, Germany Braces Itself
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.G8: Despite Germany’s Tight Controls, Violence
Over the last several weeks the German government tightened controls on civil society groups and leftist anti-globalisation activists in order to prevent, as the official lines goes, "violent disruptions" of the G8 summit of industrialised countries that Germany is hosting this week.G8: Despite Germany’s Tight Controls, Violence
Over the last several weeks the German government tightened controls on civil society groups and leftist anti-globalisation activists in order to prevent, as the official lines goes, "violent disruptions" of the G8 summit of industrialised countries that Germany is hosting this week.DEVELOPMENT: G8 Makes Room at Table for Emerging Five
The five strongest developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa - will have a place at the Group of Eight summit of the richest countries Jun. 6-8 in Heiligendamm, Germany, both as partners and as competitors of the industrialised world.DEATH PENALTY: A Life Defending Lives
In 2000, when French journalist and publisher Michel Taube founded 'Ensemble contre la peine de mort' (Together against the death penalty), his vision was that the group would become a world voice in the fight for the universal abolition of capital punishment.G8-AFRICA: Farm Subsidies a Taboo Subject?
In the preparations for this year's summit of the Group of Eight most industrialised countries, to take place Jun. 6-8 in the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, Germany, aid for Africa has topped the agenda. But the farm subsidy factor is likely to be avoided in the debate.G8: Demonstrators’ Rights and Africa at Heart of Summit
With two weeks to go to this year's summit of heads of state and government of the world's eight most industrialised countries (G8), respect for demonstrators' rights and the fulfilment of the group's economic aid promises for Africa are at the heart of the preparations.EUROPE: For Big Business, Accountability Still a Foreign Word
On Mar. 15, 2006, Noel Forgeard, at the time chief executive officer of the European aerospace corporation EADS, sold, apparently without any reason, some 170,000 shares he owned of the company, making an instantaneous profit of almost three million U.S. dollars.WORLD BIODIVERSITY DAY: Climate Change Also Drives Evolution
New scientific evidence confirms that human action, such as carbon emissions causing global warming, and industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity - and, in some cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and adapt at unexpected speed to new living conditions.BIODIVERSITY: Climate Change Also Drives Evolution
New scientific evidence confirms that human action, such as carbon emissions causing global warming, and industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity - and, in some cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and adapt at unexpected speed to new living conditions.G8: U.S. Cooling Off to Summit
The United States appears to be cooling off to some key concerns at the G8 heads of state summit next month.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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