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UN urges action to stave off global food crisis
The United Nations warned Tuesday of a possible repeat of the 2007-2008 food crisis and called on world leaders to act quickly to prevent a catastrophe which would affect tens of millions of people. “The current situation in world food markets, characterized by sharp increases in maize, wheat and soybean prices, has raised fears of a…
Survey: Two-thirds of world leaders are on Twitter
Some world leaders may be making full use of the microblogging Twitter tool to promote their ideas, but other international figures are shunning the medium, a new survey revealed Thursday. “Sixteen of the G20 leaders are actively using Twitter for public diplomacy,” said Matthias Lufkens, Digital Practice Leader at Burson-Marsteller,…
CEOs pledge sustainability, urge ‘green revolution’
RIO DE JANEIRO — Business leaders gathered at a Rio+20 conference Monday pledged sustainable policies and joined a call for world leaders to usher in “a green industrial revolution” to save the planet. Two days before a UN summit on sustainable development opens here, 1,200 CEOs wrapped up a four-day…
Greek euro exit looms as G8 gathers
World leaders will huddle at Camp David Friday with the focus on Greece as it stumbles toward a possible eurozone exit that would hold wildly uncertain repercussions for the global economy. Leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised nations will gather at the history-imbued US presidential retreat near Washington for…
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