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| VATICAN CITY |
A Vatican official Wednesday warned an upcoming Group of Eight (G8) meeting against dictating other countries what to do rather than give poor countries the chance to decide their own fate.
"The summit of the world's most powerful countries which meet from time to time to make decisions (is) a self-styled body that has never been given a mandate," said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva, in an interview with Radio Vatican.
Italy will host the G8, which groups Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States, in Genoa from July 20 to 22.
The grouping is "a contradiction within the international community," said Martin.
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| VELIKO TARNOVO, Bulgaria |
Bulgaria's former king Simeon II is tipped for victory in elections Sunday after winning the hearts of his compatriots by pledging to end poverty and champion morality in a corruption-plagued country.
On the stump the bearded 63-year-old's deft popular touch goes down well with Bulgarians tired of the everyday politicians who run the country in the decade since the ... |
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| BANGKOK |
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday that Asia must break out of its economic "straightjacket" of dependence on foreign exports if it is to overcome poverty.
Thaksin said regional development depended on new ... |
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| SOFIA |
Bulgarians vote next Sunday in elections led by an ex-king promising salvation from grinding poverty 11 years after the collapse of communism -- but critics slam his pledges as populist and unrealistic.
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| Kumanovo |
Kumanovo, a town in the north of Macedonia (FYROM), world-wide known as a place where 10 June, 1999 the Military-Technical agreement between NATO and S.R. Yugoslavia was signed.
Herewith terminating NATO bombing campaign of ... |
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| SYDNEY |
Two of Australia's most prominent Aboriginal leaders have clashed publicly over whether demands for legal and political rights are the best solution to indigenous poverty and health problems.
For more than a year, Aboriginal ... |
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| ADDIS ABABA |
The launch of the African Union had created an opportunity to build a "solid partnership" across the continent, to promote peace and combat poverty and AIDS, the OAU secretary general said here Monday.
Salim Ahmed Salim, speaking at the opening of a summit that brings together for the first time the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and African civil society, said the African Union marked a "new era" for the continent.
The 53-nation continental body came into being on May 26 and is due within about a year to replace the OAU, founded in ... |
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| TOKYO |
| International donors including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund should change their approach to helping Cambodia because their efforts have had little impact on grinding poverty, the country's opposition leader said ... |
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