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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Call to endorse principles of 'accountability, approachability, impartiality and minimum force' Excessive use of force by police has been key to undermining the historic principle of policing by consent in Britain, the report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary states. Tactics used in the G20 protests and other demonstrations have never been in any training manuals, but have evolved from...
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CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It's that time of the year again, when Christmas cards and year-end letters start arriving in the mail. I've managed to get my hands on the letters being sent out by all party leaders and will be posting them here over the next week. First off, the Prime Minister. Greetings friends! It’s been another great year despite these grave economic times, which we are only now coming out of thanks to...
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Amateur Photographer (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A UK photographer has won a six year legal battle against the Swiss government after he sued for injuries inflicted by a 'police grenade' during a political protest outside a G8 Summit.
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Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Photojournalist Guy Smallman has won his six-year fight for justice, according to fellow photographer Marc Vallee on Twitter, after being seriously injured by a stun grenade thrown by a Geneva police officer while covering protests outside a G8 summit in June 2003. Smallman appealed today against a Swiss court ruling that police were not to blame for the injuries he suffered. The earlier ruling meant...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Canada will move next year's G20 summit to Toronto from a cottage country located in center Ontario that has been originally determined as the site, local media reported Wednesday citing government officials. The G8 and G20 summit has been originally planned to be held in the town of Huntsville in the Muskoka cottage country, over an hour's drive from north of Toronto. But a senior official of the...
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Our World 2.0 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
On November 13, 2009, Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General, Jacques Diouf, embarked on a 24-hour public hunger strike, in the lead up to this week’s World Summit on Food Security in Rome. Diouf’s call for action to end the scourge of hunger comes on the heels of July’s G8 summit in Aquila, Italy, where member nations [...] Food for thought in thinking about food: 2009...
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CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Cottage country isn’t equipped to deal with the massive meeting, but the smaller G8 summit will still take place at Deerhurst resort.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Bono called Blair and Brown the 'Lennon and McCartney' of international development. But they have let their fans down Google the word "begrudgery" and you're told it is a " peculiar disease of the Irish which seemingly renders them unable to feel good about the success of their fellows ". In the recent past, I have tested positive for this ailment. The tell-tale symptoms are that...
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CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Cottage country isn’t equipped to deal with the massive meeting, but the smaller G8 summit will still take place at Deerhurst resort.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Enshrines government's commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on aid in law The international development spending draft bill will enshrine the government's commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on international development from 2013. The government made the funding pledge at the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005. The government hopes that the unprecedented move to bind in law a commitment...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
World leaders today rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger by helping poor countries feed themselves, but refused a UN appeal to put a price tag on funding. The three-day UN food summit in Rome pledged to substantially increase aid to agriculture in developing nations. In effect, the 192 countries were endorsing the strategy adopted by the G8 summit this year in L'Aquila. But the meeting...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
French opposition protest as 'Air Sarko One' fulfils president's ambition to fly world-statesman class For Nicolas Sarkozy – a 1.65m (5ft 5in) head of state with a statuesque wife, a penchant for cuban heels and an arch-enemy who refers to him as "the dwarf" – size most certainly matters. But the French president can take comfort in the knowledge that, in one area at least, his...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
To ensure food security we need to encourage crop diversity and establish a science-based red-alert system for the planet There are plenty of summits to choose from this year, but the World Summit on Food Security deserves not to be lost in the crowd. This meeting in Rome from 16 to 18 November provides badly needed political momentum to three linked issues that rank among the most challenging of...
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ONE (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
ONE co-founder Bono is a contributing columnist for the New York Times and his latest column appears today. Written as a screenplay that spans 20 years, the piece focuses on both the artistic process and some important work in Germany during the 2007 G8 summit. Below is an excerpt from a scene at the 2007 [...]
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The Swamp (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Mark Silva As the president prepares for another international trip, while pressing for passage of a "cap and trade'' energy bill back home, the Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee are preparing to send some postcards. No stamps required on the Internet, where the Republicans are tracking Air Force One's previous journeys and planning to mark the significance of the coming...
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komal111 | 07/11/2009
Obama Checking Out Girl at the G8 Summit? You may have seen this rather misleading photo doing the rounds this morning. The photo appears to depict President Obama checking out the rear of 16 year old Brazilian girl Mayora Taveres. We admit that the shot is incriminating, but the real story is far less titillating. Read More From Orginal Site
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tamilselvan1 | 07/11/2009
US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to seeing the pink satin draped booty of 17-year-old girl Mayara Tavares at the taking place is G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy on July 9, 2009.
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The media can't even get it straight! Is Mayara 16 or 17 years old? They are full of it!!
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komal111 | 07/09/2009
G8 Summit 2009 In L'Aquila, Italy Themes And Scenarios For G8 Summit In Italy, The talks are expected to focus on the state of the world economy, financial regulation, climate change and trade and development. Following are the main themes that will be discussed and possible outcomes from the meeting. Read More From Orginal Site
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