Inching beyond a pledge made a year ago, the world's top economic powers on Tuesday embraced a goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by mid-century, aiming to keep alive languishing talks on a new global warming pact.
In a nod (...)
The United States said on
Wednesday Iran should immediately halt development of ballistic
missiles and stop conducting tests if it wanted to gain the trust
of the world.
The comments came after Tehran test-fired nine long- and
medium-range (...)
President George W. Bush on Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a broad climate-change strategy, saying in a valedictory to summitry that "significant progress" has been made on global warming.
"In order to address (...)
The first meeting between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown failed on Monday to thaw bilateral relations that are at their lowest point since the Cold War.
The meeting on the sidelines of the Group of Eight (...)
G8 leaders meeting in
Japan on Tuesday have agreed to seek U.N. sanctions against
Zimbabwe, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on
Tuesday.
"The need and the urgency was indicated for sanctions at the
U.N. Security Council," (...)
U.S. President George W.
Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday agreed on the need to
continue cooperating in dealing with the problem of Iran's nuclear
development, Jiji Press reported.
The two leaders met one on one on the (...)
Carbon market traders and backers of clean-energy projects aren't holding their breath for a strong statement on fighting change during this week's G8 summit and are more focused on who wins November's US election.
Market players say they don't (...)
Toilets that take on a life of their own, eco-cars coming sooner than you might think and security on Segways have cast this year's G8 summit in a decidedly green hue.
Japan has made climate change awareness the overarching theme of this year's (...)
Dmitry Medvedev was set to meet with
four Western leaders Monday during a summit of industrialized nations, his biggest international forum since he took over as Russia's president from his patron, Vladimir Putin.
Medvedev was holding separate (...)
U.S. President George W.
Bush said on Sunday the American economy was not growing as
quickly as he would like and that his administration supported a
strong U.S. dollar policy, Reuters reported.
"Our economy is not growing as robustly as (...)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said today that he has decided on a July 7-9 schedule for the Group of Eight summit to be hosted by Japan next year in the Lake Toya hot-spring resort area in Hokkaido, reported the Japanese news agency "KYODO".
Abe also (...)
