Nature.com Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In recent weeks we’ve heard announcements about increases in funding towards the treatment HIV/AIDS. At the G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan last month, world leaders set the target of spending $60 billion over the next five years towards tackling a...
Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Shortly after the latest G-8 summit wrapped up in Japan in early July, speakers at a National Family Farm Coalition-sponsored forum pointed to the lack of a strategic grain reserve as a cause for current agriculture market conditions.
Counterfeit Law Blog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The United States Trade Representative spokesman, Scott Elmore, released a vague statement on August 1 addressing the continued negotiation of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) at the 34th G8 Summit in July 2008. Participants in the negotiation included Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United States. Elmore's statement...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVEUPI Editor at LargeWASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) — Last month’s G8 summit in Japan already has been overtaken by events in Geneva this week. India and China flexed their global muscles to demonstrate America’s waning ability to impose global trade rules. They pulled the plug on the much-heralded Doha Round [...]
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Emerging economies were disappointed by the lack of progress on climate change at the G8 summit, says South Africa’s environment minister. Marthinus van Schalkwyk speaks frankly to Isabel Hilton. With just 15 months to go until crucial UN-led climate-change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, developed countries must recognise new political realities. They cannot continue to set the agenda unilaterally,...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
A mountain-top gabfest provided a spectacular show and a long guest list but few answers to the woes of the world AS DILIGENT hosts, the Japanese made sure this year’s G8 summit, grouping the leaders of the biggest industrial economies plus Russia, saw little of the angry protest that has marred so many similar gatherings. [...]
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
At the recent G-8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, the leaders of two non-member but invited states came from China and India, Asia’s emerging giants. There is a consensus among observers of world politics that power – economic, political and military – is shifting in the direction of Asia and away from Europe and the Atlantic basin. India is China’s natural counterweight in Asia. Though India is prudent...
Page 3.14 (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
In this post: the large version of the Politics, Brain & Behavior and Technology channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week. Politics. Oxfam members protest the biofuel crisis outside the G8 summit on Hokkaido, Japan. From Flickr, by DwarfVader Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008 : Last week the judgement was handed down in Genoa in the Bolzaneto trial. The trial is one of four examining the orgy of brutality employed by Italian security forces during the G8 summit held in Genoa in 2001. The Bolzaneto judgement amounts to a virtual acquittal for the state, although the trial made clear that the Italian police had viciously abused and tortured G8 protesters...
NB TORY LADY (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
July 9, 2008 TOYAKO, JAPAN At the close of the 2008 G8 Summit today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the leaders of eight of the world’s leading economic powers had made substantive progress on several critical economic, political and environmental issues facing the world, including what the Prime Minister termed a “breakthrough” agreement on the urgent challenge of global warming. “There is a new...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
from the Guardian Jeffery Sachs calls on the G8 leaders to honor their commitments. - Kale The G8 summit in Japan earlier this month was a painful demonstration of the pitiful state of global cooperation. The world is in deepening crisis. Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs. The leading economies are entering a recession. Climate change negotiations are going around in circles....
Ph articles (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
by Ali Hale Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the UK, gave a speech during the G8 summit to exhort Britons to stop wasting food. In a time of global food shortages and dramatic price increases on staples such as bread and rice, Brown said that "It is right to put in mind people that about £8 [$16] a week is wasted in our food decline." Are you buying food which ends up being thrown away? Food wastage...
Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The G8 Summit, held annually, is attended by the heads of state of eight countriesJapan, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Russiaand the President of the Council of the European Union. Although Summit in the narrow sense means a meeting of heads of state, this term is used to refer to the whole event,...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Author: David J. Smith* In his G-8 Summit debut, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stunned his seven colleagues by supporting sanctions on Robert Mugabe’s thuggish regime in Zimbabwe. “We will take further steps, inter alia introducing financial and other measures,” said the July 8 G-8 Summit Statement from Toyako, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Then, as the next day’s sun glimmered on beautiful...
Bill Totten's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
by Mike Whitney Counterpunch (July 08 2008) While George Bush was breezing through photo-ops at the G-8 summit in Japan; his Ethiopian proxy-army in Somalia was grinding out more carnage on the streets of Mogadishu. More than forty civilians have been killed in the last 48 hours. On Sunday, Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the UN Development Program in Somalia, was shot gangland style as he left a mosque...
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rockport | 07/03/2008
Check out latest News US President George W Bush says he will discuss with India and China how to make major economies part of a common strategy to deal with the issue of climate change at next week's Group of Eight (G8) summit.
