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MSNBC
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The new funds, from a "generous response" of donors, will go for food in more than 60 countries that have been hardest hit by the food crisis, Sheeran told a U.N. food summit.
"We have mobilized our 10,000 employees and every dollar and euro given to u..
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Toronto Star
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Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que.
Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged "agents..
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SF Gate
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Police used water cannons to scatter stone-throwing demonstrators Wednesday as several thousand protesters gathered at a seven-mile fence surrounding the Group of Eight summit meeting involving President Bush and other leaders.
An estimated 10,000 demo..
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Al Jazeera
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Riot police were deployed as a precaution and officers videotaped the demonstration.
Some protesters covered their heads and faces with black hoods, sunglasses and scarves, while others chanted protest slogans through megaphones, blowing whistles and..
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News.com.au
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THE US is trying to dilute a declaration on global warming to be made at next month's G8 summit, sources close to the talks said, putting it on a collision course with hosts Germany.
In a draft of the declaration dated April 2007 seen by Reuters, the U..
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Guardian Unlimited
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In a move likely to inflame tensions ahead of next week's Nato summit in Latvia, Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, yesterday declassified documents claiming that Britain and the US had approved of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states..
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BBC News
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The UN food summit in Rome, called in response to soaring prices around the world, is to issue a declaration setting out its proposals.
It wants urgent action to help farmers plant more crops this year, but there are disagreements over the role of biof..
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BBC News
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Talks at the UN climate summit in Bali have continued past their scheduled end despite optimism that a compromise could be reached between the EU and US.
The EU has been pressing for the final text to include a specific commitment that industrialised n..
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BBC News
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Disagreements over trade, energy, human rights and international affairs look set to dominate the EU-Russia summit near the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.
It is the last one that Vladimir Putin is due to attend as Russian president before he steps down ne..
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SF Gate
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Expectations for what could be achieved at the first summit between the two Koreas in seven years had been low. Worries that South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun, a lame duck criticized for being soft on the North, would give away too much had been high...
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BBC News
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Arab states including Syria - a bitter opponent of Israel - will be asked to a Middle East peace meeting in November, the US secretary of state has said.
Condoleezza Rice described the Arab nations as "natural invitees" but said they would have to reno..
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BBC News
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A concrete and steel fence is being built across the centre of Sydney amid a massive security effort for a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders next week.
More than 5,000 police and troops will also be deployed as part of Australia's largest security operati..
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BBC News
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Leaders from North and South Korea are to hold their second-ever summit, officials have announced.
President Roh Moo-hyun will meet North Korea's Kim Jong-il in the North's capital, Pyongyang, from 28-30 August.
The summit comes amid an improvement..
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USA Today
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The leaders of North and South Korea, capitalizing on progress in shutting down the North's nuclear program, plan to meet later this month for the second-ever summit between the longtime foes, officials said Wednesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il w..
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FOX News
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The leaders of North and South Korea, capitalizing on progress in shutting down the North's nuclear program, plan to meet later this month for the second-ever summit between the longtime foes, officials said Wednesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il w..
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USA Today
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Though Sudan has accepted the notion of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the operation could still be derailed by a lack of funding and political will, African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said Sunday.
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BBC News
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The African Union summit has opened in Accra, Ghana, focusing this year on the idea of a pan-African government.
Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is championing the idea, but correspondents say many African leaders do not support his initiative.
Ther..
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BBC News
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Israel has confirmed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet the Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders at a four-way summit in Egypt on Monday.
An Israeli spokeswoman said the talks would "strengthen the moderates" and "promote Israeli-Palestinian t..
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FOX News
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Closing ranks against Hamas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has invited the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit next week, Palestinian officials said Thursday.
The regional gathering is the biggest show of support yet by mode..
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BBC News
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that agreement on a new EU constitutional treaty was "still not in sight" ahead of an important EU summit.
But Mrs Merkel told parliament in Berlin she hoped the summit would take a clear step forward and produc..
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