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Tens of thousands bowed their heads at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday, the 63rd anniversary of the world's first atomic attack, as the city's mayor hit out at countries...
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua called on Monday for a global clampdown on the theft and smuggling of crude oil, an international trade which is fuelling unrest in the country's southern Niger...
World leaders head into the second day of the annual G8 summit preoccupied by soaring food and oil prices and deeply divided over how to tackle climate change.
Senior officials from the Group of...
G8 leaders lunched and talked with African heads of state at a luxury hotel on Monday as activists accused the rich nations' club of backpedalling on pledges to double aid to the world's poorest...
The Group of Eight rich nations will seek to convince a sceptical Africa on Monday that it is living up to promises to double aid to the world's poorest continent.
Underlining the importance of...
Japan will send military officials to U.N. peacekeeping operations in Sudan, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said on Monday, signalling a push to bolster Tokyo's diplomatic and security role in...
The United Nations urged a summit on the global food crisis on Tuesday to help stop the spread of starvation threatening nearly 1 billion people by lowering trade barriers and removing export...
Soaring food prices could trigger a global catastrophe, with the world's poor unable to feed their families, human rights activists said on Monday.
The warning came as world leaders arrived...
Japan unveiled a package of steps to help boost growth in Africa on Wednesday, vowing to double its aid and business investment, as it seeks closer ties with the resource-rich continent.
In an...
Japan plans to double annual foreign aid to Africa by 2012, the government said on Tuesday, to strengthen ties with the resource-rich continent and win support for its bid for a permanent seat on...
Top Japanese officials on Tuesday deplored the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 case that jolted the...
Japan and the US agreed yesterday to push harder to get North Korea
to hold the next round of multilateral talks on its nuclear arms
programme, perhaps as soon as November, Japanese officials said.