Nathaniel Harrison
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/ 13 December 2005

WTO summit opens amid protests

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

Jordan mourns its dead

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.

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/ 6 February 2005

Good news for world’s poorest nations

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.