Plans to engage the Taliban in talks have gathered pace, with Afghanistan inviting members to a peace council and reports of a secret UN meeting. At a key Afghanistan summit in London, President Hamid Karzai vowed to reach out to "disenchanted brothers". A UN official told news agencies special envoy Kai Eide had met Taliban [...]
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Delegates from 190 nations have been gathering in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, ahead of the much anticipated 12-day climate change summit. The biggest UN climate talks in history, due to begin on Monday, are aimed at working out a new pact to curb global warming, replacing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister [...]
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