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Britain urges divided G20 to reach climate finance deal

Reuters Environmental Online Report 17 hours ago

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal to tackle climate change but developing nations insisted they did not want to talk about it. Britain is hosting ...

'7 Afghan security forces die in NATO airstrike'

AFP South Asian Edition 17 hours ago

Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a NATO air strike in remote western Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Saturday. The statement comes as NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was investigating an incident in Badghis ...

5 US troops among wounded in Afghan search: NATO

AFP South Asian Edition 17 hours ago

A search for two US soldiers missing in northwest Afghanistan continued Saturday after 25 soldiers were wounded in what one Western official said may have been a friendly-fire incident during the hunt. Five of the wounded were American soldiers, a spokesman for ...

UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan

AP News 17 hours ago

UN: Hundreds of staffers to temporarily leave Afghanistan, but exact number not determined The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but ...

Twenty-five troops hurt as Afghan search continues

AFP South Asian Edition 19 hours ago

A search for two US soldiers missing in northwest Afghanistan continued after 25 soldiers were wounded in what one Western official said may have been a friendly-fire incident during the hunt. Local police said a party looking for the two missing soldiers ...

25 wounded in search for US troops missing in Afghanistan

AFP South Asian Edition 19 hours ago

A search for two US soldiers missing in northwest Afghanistan continued after 25 soldiers were wounded in what one Western official said may have been a friendly-fire incident during the hunt. Local police said a party looking for the two missing soldiers ...

Iran lawmakers: No shipment of uranium abroad

AP Features 19 hours ago

Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether. Prominent conservative lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran won't ship its low enriched uranium abroad in ...

Search continues for missing US troops in Afghanistan

AFP South Asian Edition 22 hours ago

A search operation continued for two US paratroopers missing in remote northwest Afghanistan as NATO said 25 soldiers were wounded during the hunt following a clash with militants. Local police said a party looking for the two troops clashed with Taliban and ...

UN urges Karzai to fight corruption

AP News yesterday

UN Security Council urges new Afghan government to improve security and fight corruption The U.N. Security Council joined calls Friday on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to fight corruption, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling the country's political situation "delicate" following deeply flawed elections. ...

China a big winner in carbon credit game

AFP Global Edition yesterday

In energy-hungry China's southwestern Yunnan province, power is being produced at wind farms, dams and garbage dumps as the Asian giant adopts more "green" technology thanks to carbon trading. The UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows rich countries to fulfil part of ...

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