G8 SUMMIT: Developing Countries Stand Firm by Kyoto Protocol

Leading developing countries delivered an open challenge to the G8 nations Thursday over proposals to abandon the Kyoto Protocol as the means to contain global climate change.

G8 SUMMIT: Blasts Derail Trains, and Talks

Four bomb blasts in London Thursday morning killed dozens and injured hundreds of people, and brought the city's public transport system to a halt. These terrorist attacks also derailed a long and sustained campaign to get Group of Eight leaders to deliver on the environment and on poverty.

G8 SUMMIT: Debt Cancellation No Panacea for Benin – Analysts

Some may see it as a just reward for years of fiscal discipline. For others, it is a gesture that will ultimately do little to address poverty in Benin. What there is no disputing, is that the debt relief given to Benin last month by the Group of Eight (G8) is as much a source of controversy as satisfaction.

TERRORISM: London Blasts Attack the “Heart” of Europe

European governments have condemned the four bomb blasts in London's public transport system Thursday morning as an attack on the "heart" of Europe.

G8 SUMMIT: “Siege” at Gleneagles

Wednesday, the day of "siege" of the Group of Eight summit at this Scottish golf resort, saw several actions of civil disobedience across the region, and a big march of protesters to the kilometres of fences surrounding the summit site at the luxurious Gleneagles Hotel.

G8 SUMMIT: Pop Diplomacy Takes Over

Intense negotiations began straightaway on the first day of the Group of Eight summit - not amongst the G8 leaders, but between pop stars and the heads of state.

POLITICS-AFRICA: Sirte Looks to Gleneagles

The African Union ended its annual summit this week with an appeal for substantially more aid from the West and demands for two permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.

G8 SUMMIT: Poverty Campaign Throws a Final Challenge

The Make Poverty History campaign threw down a final challenge to the industrialised world's leaders to end poverty and save lives as the Group of Eight summit got under way here Wednesday.

G8 SUMMIT: What if They Disagree to Disagree?

Every now and then helicopters have been flying towards the Gleneagles Hotel, carrying one or another of the G8 leaders whose three-day summit begins Wednesday.

G8 SUMMIT: Did Someone Say C8?

Someone please pay attention to the three-day C8 summit that concluded in Dunblane, Scotland on Tuesday.

G8 SUMMIT: Bush Increasingly Isolated on Warming

As U.S. President George W. Bush arrives at Gleneagles, Scotland for this year's Group of Eight (G8) Summit, he finds himself more isolated on the question of global warming than ever, at home as well as abroad.

G8 SUMMIT: US Groups Prod Bush over Poverty and Africa

As Pres. George W. Bush heads to a meeting of the world's richest nations in Scotland, dozens of anti-poverty groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) called on Washington Tuesday to offer more than token aid to help African nations and fight poverty around the world.

G8 SUMMIT: Detention of Asylum-Seekers a “Shame”

Some 3,000 people marched Tuesday on what they said is "the shame of Scotland," the Dungavel detention centre for asylum-seekers. The protesters want the centre shut down - and to send a message to the G8 leaders gathering Wednesday at the Gleneagles golf resort.

G8 SUMMIT: NGOs See Clouds Over Gleneagles

This week's summit of the Group of Eight leading industrial powers is set to fall short of the response needed to tackle global poverty, says the non-governmental organisation War on Want.

G8 SUMMIT: See Through the British ‘Brownwash’, Say Activists

Britain is painting a misleadingly flattering picture of its commitments to do more in the fight against poverty in Africa, a leading development group says.

G8 SUMMIT: Gleneagles Was Never This Far

"Not every train stops in Gleneagles," the kindly Scotswoman said. "But there's the odd one that does." She produced a timetable that showed a train calling at the central Scotland destination about once an hour.

G8 SUMMIT: A Wristband and a Concert Aren’t Enough, Say Activists

"The politics of G8 got somewhat lost at Live 8," says Neil Williams, an activist with the British socialist coalition known simply as Respect, about the 10 concerts performed Saturday in 10 cities.

G8 SUMMIT: "Nukes Are Afraid of Protesters"

Some 2,000 people began gathering in the area surrounding the Faslane Royal Navy nuclear submarine base in Scotland early Monday morning to "shut it down for the day" as part of the protests leading up to the Group of Eight summit this week.

G8 SUMMIT: More Aid Sought for African People, Not Gov’ts

A leading campaign group has called for a substantial part of increased aid to Africa to be channelled directly to people, rather than governments.

G8 SUMMIT: Bush Dampens the Climate Already

U.S. President George W. Bush's Independence Day remarks on climate change have turned out to be a statement of independence from any global efforts to contain damaging change.

G8 SUMMIT: ‘Greenwashing’ Does Not Make the World Cleaner

The "greenwashing" that corporations are now doing as their bit to clean up the environment cannot hide the damage they are causing, Meena Raman, chair of Friends of the Earth International, said Saturday.