Japan Economic Newswire | March 26, 2002
The chairman of the agriculture committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Stuart Harbinson, said Tuesday he will present a new draft liberalization framework centering on tariff reduction and other issues by mid-February next year, trade sources said.
OTTAWA - Not enough time remains for the Canadian government to do the work needed to ratify the Kyoto climate change accord by mid-year, Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal said last week.
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said yesterday he may be unable to block a White House plan to bury 70,000 tonnes of nuclear waste at a Nevada site opposed by environmentals, who cite the risk of ground water contamination and the dangers of transporting the waste.
AP Online | By JULIE WATSON | March 19, 2002
Even as world leaders kicked off discussions on how to alleviate poverty - a theme anti-globalization activists have pushed for years - a motley crew of corn farmers, masked students and rebel supporters took to the streets denouncing the gathering as more of the same.
New York Times | March 19, 2002 | by Tim Weiner
Corruption among governments, politicians and businessmen endangers the world's efforts to ease poverty, according to leaders of a United Nations conference on aid and economic development that opened here today.
The Washington Post | By Kevin Sullivan | March 19, 2002
Central America's worst drought in more than a decade has caused the deaths of more than 125 children in Guatemala, the hardest-hit country in a region in which thousands of lives are threatened by failing crops and spreading hunger, according to government officials and aid workers.
Agence France Presse | March 19, 2002
The European Union and the United States began initial consultations here on Tuesday about EU claims for compensation for US tariffs on imported steel, 24 hours before the US measures are due to take effect.
