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China says trade deficit proves yuan not to blameBeijing (AFP) April 10, 2010 China said Saturday its first trade deficit in six years proved the nation's exchange rate did not play a decisive role in global economic imbalances amid pressure to allow the yuan to appreciate. International critics say Beijing has kept the currency artificially low to boost exports, resulting in massive trade surpluses with the United States and Europe. The issue has become a major sore point in Sino-US relations. But China has defended its exchange rate policy as necessary for the survival ... read more |
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Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Apr 8, 2010 Brazil is upbeat on a new defense cooperation agreement scheduled to be signed in Washington next week, officials said. Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told congressional committees the accord, to be the first between Brazil and the United States since 1977, will help defense industry businesses but gave no further details. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last year em ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 8, 2010The world's 17 major economies accounting for the bulk of carbon emissions will meet this month in Washington in hopes of pushing forward slow-moving climate talks, US officials said Thursday. Officials from the so-called Major Economies Forum - whose countries account for more than 80 percent of the emissions blamed for global warming - will meet on April 18 and 19 in Washington, the Stat ... more
Hanoi (AFP) April 9, 2010Southeast Asian leaders called Friday for a legally binding global pact on climate change and urged richer nations to provide them with "scaled-up" financial help to combat its effects. In a joint summit statement, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Vietnam said a new deal should go further than the non-binding 11th-hour pact reached in Copenhagen in Dec ... more |
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Israeli minister touts new 'oil weapon'Jerusalem (UPI) Apr 8, 2010 As the United States and its allies ponder harsh new sanctions on Iran, Israel's infrastructure minister has come up with a new strategy for countering the Islamic Republic and terrorism - green technology to cripple the main oil-producing states. Uzi Landau unveiled his master plan at the recent annual conference in Washington of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel lobby group in the United States. By breaking the stranglehold that Iran, Saudi Ara ... read more |
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