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/ 8 December 2007
A powerful cyclone packing winds of up to 250km/h pounded some small islands in northern Fiji, but missed heavily populated areas in the South Pacific nation as it swung away to the south-east, officials said on Saturday. Cyclone Daman remained a category-four storm, forecaster Daini Donu said, but it was weakening.
Wealthy nations should do more to alleviate global poverty that is being exploited by terrorist groups in poor countries, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
An African, Caribbean and Pacific summit on trade and aid was on Friday set to venture into stormy political waters by strongly condemning nuclear waste shipments across the Pacific.