Airbus officials on Tuesday defended their response to the recent crash of an Air France Airbus jet and insisted their planes were safe.
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/ 15 December 2005
Global trade talks were on Thursday confronted with growing pressure from poorer countries, with African cotton producers and Latin-American banana exporters leading the charge for fairer treatment. The conflicts threaten the outcome of the six-day World Trade Organisation (WTO) gathering.
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/ 13 December 2005
World trade ministers on Tuesday began talks to salvage free-trade negotiations amid little hope for a major breakthrough, as thousands of protesters denounced the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as an enemy of the poor. Ministers will spend the next six days trying to salvage the Doha Round of trade negotiations.
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/ 11 November 2005
United Nations chief Kofi Annan was headed to Amman on Friday as Jordanians mourned victims of deadly attacks on three luxury hotels claimed by al-Qaeda, which jolted one of Washington’s staunchest Middle East allies. The death toll rose to 57 after a renowned film director died of injuries sustained in one of the blasts.
After years of dithering, leaders of the world’s most powerful countries face a moment of truth on Wednesday when they open a three-day summit under mounting pressure to take concrete action against Africa’s pervasive poverty.
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/ 6 February 2005
The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations salvaged a weekend meeting in London, threatened by a United States-European disagreement on helping out poor countries. For the first time, a G7 finance meeting has expressed a readiness to provide multilateral debt cancellation of up to 100% for some of the world’s most impoverished nations.