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- India has asked influential countries of the G8 and G5 to put pressure on Pakistan to shed the path of terrorism and choose friendship with it, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh disclosed on Saturday.
- Leaders of the world's industrialised and developing countries, including India, on Friday said they made "significant progress" on trade matters and sent a "strong political message" on tackling climate change at their just-concluded Summit here.
Taking India by name, US President Barack Obama on Friday said it would be "wrongheaded" to think that global challenges can be met in the absence of "major powers" like this South Asian country.
Lasting worldwide recovery "is still a ways off," President Barack Obama declared on Friday, but he also said at the conclusion of a global summit that a disastrous economic collapse apparently has been averted.- World leaders said on Friday that they want to provide $20 billion over the next three years to increase food production in developing countries and help the poor feed themselves.
Leaders of five emerging economic powerhouses are set to join a summit of the world's richest nations to hammer out differences over how to combat poverty and climate change.
Rallying rich and surging nations alike, President Barack Obama wants the world's top polluters to keep driving toward a deal to halt global warming.- An Italian city devastated by an earthquake less than 100 days ago plays host to the world's major leaders to review efforts to shore up the foundations of the global economy.
Ahead of the G-8 meeting on Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for significant reforms of the international financial institutions to address global problems and asserted that India would seek its due place in such institutions.
It's not only the leaders who feel the strain at marathon talks on solving some of the world's most pressing problems.As a summit of the Group of Eight rich nations entered a third day on Wednesday, the legions of security guards, smiling hotel staff, interpreters and journalists were also feeling the strain.
The White House says before the end of the year it hopes to get a global agreement on climate change that will include emerging economies like India and China, a point being insisted upon by US President George Bush.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed North Korea on Saturday to take the next step and give up its atomic weaponry, after it disclosed some nuclear secrets and demolished part of its reactor.
Alarmed by the spurt in militancy in Pakistan, the powerful G8 grouping on Friday asked Islamabad to press ahead with an "effective" counter-terrorism strategy and a "robust" effort to strengthen democratic institutions.
