The Group of Eight summit has opened on the Japanese island of Hokkaido with surging oil and food prices as well as climate change set to dominate the agenda.
Leaders of the world's industrialised nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia and the United States -- are to be joined this year by those of some 15 other countries including China, India, Brazil, South Korea and Australia. The meeting has begun with an outreach session attended by several African leaders. It's devoted to plans for boosting aid to impoverished countries on EU, Russia Open Talks on New Strategic Partnership ...
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Iranian and Pakistani leaders meet over gas pipeline ... the continent. At the 2005 summit in Scotland, G8 leaders agreed to double aid to Africa by 2010. But UN and African Union figures suggest that less than a quarter of the amount pledged has been delivered so far.
(Deutsche Welle)
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