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British PM sets targets for Afghan president
LONDON (AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he wanted to set President Hamid Karzai a series of three-monthly targets so that international forces can start to hand over control of Afghanistan.
November 29, 2009, 2:02 pm -
'Nuclear pope' ElBaradei steps down
VIENNA (AFP) - UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who once described himself as a "nuclear pope", quoted the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi in his farewell remarks at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
November 29, 2009, 1:40 pm -
Climate talks on track after Commonwealth boost
PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Global climate talks to be held in Copenhagen got a big boost on the weekend when leaders representing a third of the planet's population put their full weight behind sealing a deal.
November 29, 2009, 1:13 pm -
9,000 Marines to Helmand after Obama speech: report
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military will deploy up to 9,000 Marines to Afghanistan's Helmand province -- doubling US presence there -- in the days after President Barack Obama's war strategy announcement this week, the Washington Post said Saturday.
November 29, 2009, 10:38 am -
Rudd supporting Afghanistan summit
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is backing the announcement of a summit to be held in London in January to discuss Afghanistan.
November 29, 2009, 10:15 am -
Commonwealth throws weight behind climate talks
PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Commonwealth leaders representing two billion people on Saturday threw their combined weight behind upcoming climate talks, driving momentum towards a new carbon-cutting treaty.
November 29, 2009, 10:14 am -
UK to host talks on Afghanistan exit
Britain aims to set clear goals in Afghanistan at top-level talks next year to move towards bringing its troops home, Prime Minister Gordon Brown says.
November 29, 2009, 10:14 am -
PNG PM Somare attacks US climate policy
Papua New Guinea has criticised the US's "irresponsible" and "unacceptable" climate change policy at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
November 29, 2009, 10:10 am -
Talks to set Afghan goals for British troop exit
PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Britain aims to set clear goals in Afghanistan at top-level talks next year to move towards bringing its troops home, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday amid public anger at the war.
November 29, 2009, 8:09 am -
Afghan talks to seek road to security handover
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Britain will host talks on Afghanistan on January 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, just days before U.S. President Barack Obama spells out his expansion of the war effort next week.
November 29, 2009, 6:31 am -
Afghan talks to seek path to security handover
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Britain will host talks on Afghanistan on January 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, just days before U.S. President Barack Obama sets out his expansion of the war effort next week.
November 29, 2009, 4:50 am -
Afghan meeting to map path to security handovers
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - A major international conference on Afghanistan, to be held in London in January, will aim to set the conditions for a gradual transfer of security responsibilities to Afghan control, Britain said on Saturday.
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West aims to build Afghan forces with pay hike
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan announced a pay rise of nearly 40 percent for police and military recruits on Saturday, as Western countries aim to increase the size and quality of Afghan security forces so their own troops can go home.
November 29, 2009, 12:26 am -
World leaders spruik climate deal chances
Hopes for a new global climate pact have risen after rich nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago offered to help poorer countries bear the costs of implementing any deal.
November 28, 2009, 11:26 pm -
CHOGM talks boost climate deal hopes
Hopes rose that a new global climate pact was within reach after rich nations at a Commonwealth summit offered to help poorer countries bear the costs.
November 28, 2009, 9:47 pm -
White House crashers met Obama
The two aspiring reality TV stars who gatecrashed a state dinner this week met US President Barack Obama at the event, a new White House photograph shows.
November 28, 2009, 5:26 pm -
Rudd shrugs off climate woes at CHOGM
PM Kevin Rudd says "political will" exists to approve a climate change deal at the Copenhagen UN summit, despite his own legislation being bogged in the Senate.
November 28, 2009, 3:59 pm -
Gatecrashers met Obama, Secret Service 'embarrassed'
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The two aspiring reality TV stars who gatecrashed a state dinner this week met President Barack Obama at the event, a White House photograph showed.
November 28, 2009, 1:30 pm -
Russia, U.S. likely to miss deadline on arms pact
MINSK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are unlikely to finish a pact to cut Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons by a December 5 deadline but still aim to close the deal by year-end, Russian and U.S. sources said Friday.
November 28, 2009, 8:59 am
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