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The political calculus of human rights
Much of the chatter around this week's G8 summit is about how long the current group and its peripheral members, including Canada, can withstand pressure for inclusion from states with expanding clout and exploding wealth.
Nigeria and the G8 Summit
One of the news reports was about the on- going G8 summit in Japan. Indeed Nigeria is one of seven nations invited to join the opening day of the annual summit. YarâAduaâs presence at the Summit should bear some fruit we hoped heartily.
India, China concerned about climate, Harper says
TOKYO -- Big developing countries such as China and India appreciate the need to deal with climate change but want to protect their rapid economic growth, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday after an international summit dominated by the...
Britain seeks to defuse row with Russia over Alexander Li...
Following his first meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President, at the G8 summit earlier this week, Gordon Brown said the Government were far from satisfied with the investigation into the death of Mr Litvinenko, a former FSB officer who...
French veteran anchorman bows out
...to an excited little boy entering the big boys' playground at a G8 summit last year. TF1, a private channel, is owned by industrialist Martin Bouygues, a personal friend of President Sarkozy....
China's policy on Tibet and Taiwan
In fact both remain distant dreams. As President Hu Jintao was feted at the G8 summit in Japan, China secured two important affirmative RSVPs to the opening of the Olympic games in Beijing next month.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown sounds like an elderly Hamlet
In the absence of decisions at the G8 summit, Gordon Brown talked about goals: new goals and millennium development goals, though not, in a pleasant show of modesty, own goals, which have emerged as his personal speciality.
PM sidesteps new Khadr evidence
Speaking to reporters in Tokyo - where he met with Japan's emperor and prime minister following this week's G8 summit - Harper said the Liberal government of the day knew about Khadr's treatment in Guantanamo Bay.
Nigerian group 'to end ceasefire'
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told journalists at the G8 summit in Japan the UK would help Nigeria 'deal with lawlessness' in the region. The government wants to organise a giant peace summit to try to resolve the region's problems.