G8 leaders will approve billions of dollars in aid to new Arab democracies on Friday as they end their summit.
G8 powers have shied away from imposing a no-fly zone to protect Libyans from assault by ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.
Nicolas Sarkozy will on Wednesday welcome Jacob Zuma to France as a key player in Paris’s plan to use its G20 presidency to reform world finance.
The world’s most powerful leaders warned on Wednesday that the global economy is still in peril.
Energy ministers from G8 countries on Sunday heard that oil prices could again soar when the global economic crisis eases and demand returns.
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/ 21 November 2008
US President George W Bush may be a lame duck, but protesters and aspiring US rivals are still dogging him with a passion on his last foreign trip.
Even by the standards of international trade and diplomacy, the Group of Eight’s language can be unusual, and sometimes downright weird.
So, what did British Prime Minister Gordon Brown do that meant his Japanese hosts at the G8 summit placed him at the far end of the table?
The world’s biggest polluters agreed on Wednesday on the need for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but held back from setting specific targets.
Zimbabwe’s government said on Tuesday that the G8 leaders’ rejection of President Robert Mugabe’s legitimacy was racist and an insult.
The G8 agreed on Tuesday to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe’s leadership because of violence during the condemned re-election of Robert Mugabe.
The people of Zimbabwe need to remove themselves from their current crisis situation, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.
G8 nations said on Tuesday they would work towards a target of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with other participants in UN talks.
Leaders of the G8 powers warned on Tuesday that soaring oil and food prices pose a ”serious challenge” to world economic growth.
SA President Thabo Mbeki has been given a grilling by G8 leaders at a private meeting over his mediation efforts in Zimbabwe.
African leaders on Monday urged the G8 nations to tackle spiking oil and food prices, warning the crisis may aggravate an already desperate plight.
AU Commission chief Jean Ping was rushed to hospital on Monday in Japan where he was attending a summit with the G8 powers.
Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75%, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report.
US President George Bush has vowed not to repeat one of his previous mistakes as he heads to his last Group of Eight (G8) summit.
Group of Eight (G8) leaders could well cobble together some agreement next week on goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Group of Eight energy ministers on Sunday looked inward for solutions to oil’s unrelenting rally.
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/ 23 September 2007
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met ministers from world powers and neighbouring countries on Saturday after telling the United Nations secretary general he could guarantee security for a broader UN role in Iraq. Ministers from Iraq, its neighbours and world powers met at UN headquarters.