Gordon Brown claimed that world leaders have agreed a “route map to global economic recovery” at the conclusion of the G20 summit in Washington today. The leaders of the world’s 20 leading economies promised to instruct their ministers to seek a new Doha trade deal by the end of the year and to co-ordinate interest rate and tax cuts to…
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WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Saturday said the Canadian government is eyeing the possibility of “short-term deficit spending” as part of broader international efforts to stimulate the world economy and avoid a prolonged global recession. At the close of the Group of 20 leaders’ summit Saturday afternoon, Harper said Canada still hopes to preserve a balanced budget position but his government will act in concert with other nations if necessary to bolster the world…
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Text: WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush emerged from the G20 summit satisfied with having preserved the principles of free market economics, while leaving his successor wide room for maneuver. After 24 hours of hosting world leaders in what a senior…
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LOS ANGELES — Southern Californians endured a third day of destruction Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires torched hundreds of mobile homes and mansions, forced tens of thousands of people to flee and shut down major freeways. No deaths were reported, but the Los Angeles police chief said he feared authorities might find bodies among the 500 burned dwellings in a devastated mobile home park that housed many senior citizens. “We have almost total devastation here in the mobile park,” Fire Capt. Steve Ruda said. “I can’t even read the street names because the street signs are melting.” The series of fires has injured at least 20 people and destroyed hundreds of homes from coastal Santa Barbara…
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that a “crisis of confidence” exists between Russia and the United States but that he has “great aspirations” for the incoming Obama administration. Medvedev, in Washington for the G-20 economic summit, said he hoped to meet with President-elect Barack Obama soon. “We have that understanding,” he said. Medvedev has expressed concern that a U.S. missile-defense program that would put radar and missiles in the Czech Republic and Poland would threaten Russia. Medvedev announced this month that Russia would place short-range ballistic missiles near its border with Poland, in Kaliningrad, to defend Russia from the U.S. missiles. The State…
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Much speculation over New York senator’s future in Obama’s cabinet John Raoux / APPresident-elect Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the end of a rally in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 20. Former President Bill Clinton’s activities could cause complications for the New York senator if Obama considers her to be secretary of state. The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton’s globe-trotting business deals and fundraising for his foundation sometimes put his activities abroad at odds with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and could cause complications if President-elect Barack Obama picks her to be secretary of state. During her own White House campaign, the New York senator criticized…
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BANGKOK–Thailand’s fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has divorced his wife in Hong Kong, his spokesman said. Thaksin and his wife, Pojaman, who married in 1976, divorced at the Thai consul general’s office in Hong Kong on Friday, spokesman Pongthep Thepkanjana said Saturday in Bangkok. “It is true that he has signed the divorce papers, but the reasons behind the…
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Prince Charles’s 60th birthday celebrations have been marred by a family row after the Prince refused to attend a birthday lunch held in his honour. There was embarrassment at London’s Goring Hotel on Friday when the Prince failed to turn up for the celebratory lunch hosted by the Queen’s cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson. Scroll down for more Lady Elizabeth Anson with the Duchess of Cornwall: Prince Charles refused to turn up to Anson’s celebratory lunch amid a spat Although a number of minor Royals, including Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and Lady Helen Taylor, all attended, Charles was notable by his absence, as was the Queen herself. As I revealed two weeks ago, the…
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Half a century after he fled from the Chinese invasion of Tibet and began campaigning for its freedom, the Dalai Lama is ready to stand down from his role as the movement’s political leader, amid mounting personal frustration with the lack of progress. Hundreds of Tibetans are gathering this week in Dharamsala, India, his base in exile, for a six-day crisis meeting that many believe is the most important for a generation. At issue will be how to proceed in the face of Chinese intransigence. Central to the debate will be the Dalai Lama’s offer to take a back-seat role….
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 WASHINGTON: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late on Friday Ankara could play a positive part if it were to act as a mediator in the stalled negotiations with Iran over its suspect…
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