DEVELOPMENT:    G8 Makes Room at Table for Emerging Five
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BERLIN, Jun 1 (IPS) - The five strongest developing countries -- Brazil,  China, India, Mexico, and South Africa -- will have a place at  the Group of Eight summit of the richest countries Jun. 6-8 in  Heiligendamm, Germany, both as partners and as competitors of the  industrialised world.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Group of Eight leaders were near agreement on Thursday on a goal of "substantial" cuts in world greenhouse gas emissions, well short of European calls to halve emissions.
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HELSINKI, Sep 13 (IPS) - Four developing countries -- China, India, Brazil  and South Africa (CIBS) -- are poised to become new southern  engines of global economic growth with increasing potential to  provide prosperity to other developing countries, said prominent  economics researchers here.
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The UN has chosen Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania as the five states to become non-permanent members of the Security Council next year.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jun 5 (IPS) - In the final hours before this week's Group of  Eight (G8) summit gets underway in Germany, activists have  underscored the need for progress with both climate change and  poverty alleviation -- key items on the meeting's agenda --  for there to be real improvement in Africa's living  conditions.
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The G8 group of leading industrial nations is to study whether hedge funds pose a risk, says Germany.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for the annual G-8 gathering of the world's industrialized power next week, he may be greeted with tense smiles and strained pleasantries.
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Finance chiefs from the biggest developing economies on Saturday pushed the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations for a seat at the high table of global economic policy making.
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BERLIN, Jun 4 (IPS) - Legislators from the G8 countries -- Britain,  France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, United States and Russia  -- are hoping against hope that an historic breakthrough on  climate change will be achieved at the Heiligendamm summit this  week.
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The creation of an East Asian union has gained more support after the leaders of 13 countries in East Asia agreed to hold an East Asian Summit conference next year at the 8th Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Korea, China, Japan
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India is set to make its debut at the G7 next month, becoming only the third outside country to attend a meeting of the club of rich nations in a sign of its growing importance as a world economic power.
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Leaders from the world&#39;s major  industrialized nations will try to paper over deep divisions on  global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they  meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit.
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Emerging economies are now big enough to help but not save Western giants.
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BERLIN, May 30 (IPS) - In the preparations for this year's summit of  the Group of Eight most industrialised countries, to take place  Jun. 6-8 in the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, Germany,  aid for Africa has topped the agenda. But the farm subsidy factor  is likely to be avoided in the debate.
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By Sabyasachi Mitra and Natsuko Waki LONDON  - Finance chiefs from the biggestdeveloping economies on Saturday pushed the Group of Seven (G7)industrialized nations for a seat at the high table of globaleconomic policy making.
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Japan is considering inviting Asian countries, including China and ASEAN states, to this year's Group of Eight (G8) summit, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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