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The U.S. President, Barack Obama, asked the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to use his influence to try to convince Iran to abandon its nuclear program. According to the spokesman of the White House, Robert Gibbs, the matter was dealt with in a half-hour meeting between the two presidents on the morning of Thursday in Aquila, Italy, where is the [...]

It is but 18 months away from the G8′s self-imposed deadline for promises pledged to aid Africa but only $7 billion out of the $21.5 billion in aid, promised at the Gleneagles summit in 2005, have actually been delivered. This means that a paltry one-third of the total pledges made by the G8 group of industrialized countries has actually benefited [...]

Malnutrition in the world is progressing. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than one billion people will suffer from malnutrition in 2009, against 963 million at the end of 2008. There would be a need for 30 billion euros per year to fight hunger and boost family agriculture. Just a year ago, images of food [...]