UN summit: Brazil picks up baton
Brazil on Saturday took the helm of talks to
forge a global deal on preserving the environment and rooting out
poverty ahead of a gathering of world leaders starting in just four
days. Five months of negotiations on a vast document, due to be
endorsed at the three-day summit climaxing the UN Conference on
Sustainable Development, have failed to break the deadlock on
several issues.
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China’s space mission shows growing ambitions
China's latest space mission is its most
ambitious yet and shows Beijing's resolve to increase its
technological capabilities and bridge the gap with the United States
and Russia, experts say. The Shenzhou-9 rocket blasted off from the
Gobi desert on Saturday with three astronauts on board -- including,
for the first time, a woman -- to conduct China's first manned space
docking, the latest step towards setting up a space station.
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Nobel chair cheers Suu Kyi
Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland on
Saturday welcomed 1991 Peace Price laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and
said he wished China's jailed 2010 recipient Liu Xiaobo could also
come to Oslo. More than two decades after she was awarded the prize,
“Aung San Suu Kyi is finally here,” he said in a speech for the
Myanmar democracy champion, who after years of house arrest is on
her first Europe tour in a quarter-century.
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Tough policy decisions waiting for India
The finance ministry with Pranab Mukherjee not
at its helm is facing a long list of tough policy decisions - from
the goods and services tax and direct taxes code to allowing FDI in
the pension and insurance sectors, among other things. Economists
say immediate actions are needed to end the perceived policy
paralysis that hit India - the global investors’ hotspot till not so
long ago.
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