Tsunami in focus as UK takes G8 helm
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The government is taking over the presidency of the Group of Eight rich nations with devastation left by the Indian Ocean tsunami overshadowing a planned agenda aiming to address poverty in Africa and tackle ...
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Britain will use its presidency of the G8 industrialised nations to push for a modern day Marshall Plan delivering full debt relief, trade benefits and financial assistance for highly impoverished countries, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said.
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The lead role in coordinating relief efforts in areas of Asia battered by earthquakes and tidal waves should be played by the United Nations and not the G8, Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
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Leaders from the main industrial powers are in Germany for a G8 summit overshadowed by US-Russia tensions.
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Regional countries and organisations clash over the location of an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system.
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A security cordon will be thrown around the Scottish Parliament for the G8 summit, it emerges.
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World leaders step up plans for a united response to Asian tsunamis as the 124,000 confirmed dead are mourned.
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The world's overwhelming response to the Indian Ocean tsunamis has underscored the disparity in donor generosity toward Africa, whose population suffers "a tsunami a week" in the words of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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The chancellor presses the G8 to freeze all debts owed by countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster, the BBC learns.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown will say on Thursday he has full support from all the G7 industrialized nations to immediately freeze debt repayments from countries afflicted by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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COUNTRIES around the Atlantic rim could be hit by killer tsunamis at any time between now and the next 10,000 years, the British government's chief scientific adviser said today.
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Leaders from major industrial powers are in Germany for a G8 summit overshadowed by US-Russia tensions.
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The G-8 summit that President Bush and seven other world leaders are attending next weekend in Russia is often billed as a gathering of the world&#039;s leading economic powers.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is heading Wednesday for his swangsong G8 summit, battling to make good on pledges on Africa and climate change at talks clouded by a growing row with Russia.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown  will say on Thursday he has full support from all the G7  industrialized nations to immediately freeze debt repayments  from countries afflicted by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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The UK chancellor presses the G8 to freeze all debts owed by countries hit by the Asian tsunami.
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Global leaders gathering in Jakarta to  discuss the tsunami that devastated countries around the Indian  Ocean will try to draw lessons from the disaster, including  looking at a future warning system.