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EU can't agree on how much climate aid to give

clockwise from bottom left, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Socrates, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday Oct. 29, 2009. EU leaders open a difficult summit, facing an east-west rift over who should pay most to entice developing nations to sign up to a new global climate change pact. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

BRUSSELS - European Union leaders failed to agree Friday on how much to give poorer nations to counter the effects of a warming climate - squandering the last chance that global greenhouse gas talks in December will produce real results. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor

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