Global talks on climate change on Saturday set up a new fund to manage billions of dollars in aid to poor nations.
More than 190 nations on Friday considered "deep cuts" in emissions to hold back climate change.
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/ 10 December 2010
The world’s climate negotiators worked into early Friday morning amid guarded hopes of making progress.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that the world was missing its last chance to control climate change.
China on Monday offered for the first time to submit its voluntary carbon emissions target to a binding United Nations resolution.
As ministers began flying in to climate talks in Cancún, the UN on Sunday moved to exorcise the "ghosts of Copenhagen".
China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.
Negotiators at UN talks in Mexico on Tuesday struggled over proposals that would abolish a two-decade divide between rich and poor on scrutiny of gree
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/ 30 September 2008
Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing.
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/ 1 February 2006
She may be a second-generation boxer, but if Laila Ali eventually has children, the world’s most famous woman fighter will discourage them from taking up the sport. ”I’m not encouraging anybody else’s kids,” she said. ”So why would I encourage my own. No. I’m crazy, but I hope my kids are sane.”
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/ 23 October 2005
Six people were listed as killed and two as missing early on Sunday after Hurricane Wilma erased beaches and flooded luxury hotels up to the third floor in Mexico’s famous Yucatan resorts. More than 71 000 people, many of them foreign tourists, remained in emergency refuge centers for a second night as slow-moving, powerful Wilma continued to pummel the region with high winds and rains.
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/ 22 October 2005
Sea water rushed into the Mexican resort city of Cancun early on Saturday as Hurricane Wilma whipped up a massive storm surge and unleashed heavy rain and driving winds over a resort area known for its picturesque beaches. The Category Four storm hit the Yucatan peninsula packing sustained winds of 215km an hour, felling trees and tearing roofs off buildings, as tens of thousands of tourists and residents cowered in emergency shelters.
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/ 21 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma battered deserted resorts along Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with howling winds and torrential rain on Friday, toppling trees and power lines. The heart of the fearsome hurricane moved slowly on to the Mexican coast, and authorities have warned it could be one of the most dangerous storms in decades.
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/ 21 October 2005
Mexico braced on Thursday for a major hit from a monstrous Hurricane Wilma as the powerful storm threatened to grow even stronger before making landfall in this touristic coastline. The storm forced thousands of European and American tourists to flee Cancun resort hotels, while tens of thousands of people were evacuated in Cuba.
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/ 20 October 2005
A monstrous Hurricane Wilma barrelled toward Mexico and the storm-weary United States coast on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands to flee coastlines after it mushroomed into the most powerful storm recorded to date in the Atlantic. Cuba has started to evacuate 235 000 people.
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/ 20 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma weakened slightly as it roared toward Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and southern Florida on Wednesday, leaving 13 people dead in its wake and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands in coastal areas from Honduras to the Florida Keys. Forecasters said the hurricane could strengthen again.
Hurricane Emily blasted the world-famous beach resorts on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Monday, where thousands of tourists were evacuated or took refuge in shelters while the storm toll across the Caribbean rose to seven dead. Thousands of tourists were evacuated to wait as Emily headed out into the Gulf of Mexico.
South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi was elected on Friday as the new president of Interpol during the final of the 73rd Interpol General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, a spokesperson said. Selebi, who was Interpol vice-president for Africa, was elected by a vote of 89 to 31 over Mexican nominee Genaro Garcia Luna.
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/ 15 September 2003
Minister Trade and Industry Alec Erwin has said South Africa is concerned and disappointed that trade ministers from across the world were unable to reach a "definite and concrete" outcome at the World Trade Organisation talks in Cancun.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20463">Developing countries flex muscles</a>
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/ 15 September 2003
A new and expanding alliance of developing countries on Sunday left a doomed World Trade Organisation conference empty-handed but far from despondent, having flexed its new-found muscles. Led by heavyweights Brazil, India and China, the ”Group of 20 plus” also includes South Africa.
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/ 13 September 2003
Britain gave warning last night that time was running out for the global trade summit in Cancun as negotiators prepared for a weekend of crisis talks to save the meeting from collapse.
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/ 12 September 2003
World Trade Organisation countries on Thursday showed no major signs of shifting from long-held positions in their first multilateral negotiations devoted to farm reform at a key ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
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/ 12 September 2003
Up to 10 000 of the poorest Mexican farmers and trade unionists marched on the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) opening meeting this week, demanding that small farmers be protected from international big business and that trade rules should not determine issues of food and health.