OTTAWA - The sputtering global economy tops the agenda as Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Japan this weekend for next week's Group of Eight summit, and that, say some foreign-policy experts, will probably suit the prime minister just fine.
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TOKYO, July 3 (Itar-Tass) -- Delegates of the World Religious Summit, which ended its two-day session on the Japanese island of Hokkaido on Thursday, urged the G8 leaders to cooperate in solving acute...
AMSTERDAM The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the UN climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen
Ainu's Mina Sakai speaks at a press conference of the Indigenous Peoples Summit. A gathering of indigenous peoples blamed the Group of Eight's economic agenda for global warming and rising food and fuel prices - the very problems the G-8 leaders plan
A view through a window looking onto a commercial complex in Chiba, Japan, that uses transparent solar panels on window glass to generate power. (Ko Sasaki for The New York Times)
KUMAGAYA, Japan: With its towering furnaces and clanging conveyer belts
New Delhi, Jul 4: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to hold a bilateral meeting with US President George W Bush on the sidelines of upcoming G-8 summit at Toyko in Japan on July 9, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here on Friday, July 4.
Prospects that Japan could see a return to the revolving door of prime ministers that plagued the 1990s only add to worries about a prolonged political stalemate and policy deadlock.
Fukuda inherited a split parliament where the opposition controls
SAPPORO, Japan (AP) -- Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather
SAPPORO, Japan (AP) -- Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather
TOKYO, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Japan, host of this year's
Group of Eight (G8) summit next week, hopes to utilize the gathering on the
northern island of Hokkaido to wield increased clout in the battle against
climate change and on African issues, shore