India, China firms ink 48 biz pacts

Indian and China have agreed a new $100bn (66bn) bilateral trade target by 2015, up from $60bn (38bn) in 2010.

The two sides agreed to take measures to promote greater Indian exports to China to reduce India’s trade deficit. Companies have already signed business deals worth $16bn (10.2bn) on the opening day of Chinese PM Wen Jiabao’s three-day official visit to India.

The latest of a number of world leaders to visit India, Mr Wen is accompanied by some 400 Chinese business leaders.

China is India’s largest trading partner.

A joint communique signed by the two sides on Thursday said that they had agreed to expand co-operation in infrastructure, environment, information technology, telecommunications and investment and finance.

It said that both wanted to draw on each other’s strengths and pursue mutual benefit and win-win results.
Mr Wen held talks on Thursday with Indian PM Manmohan Singh. The two men discussed a number of sensitive issues, including a long-running border dispute. The two countries signed some 50 deals in power, telecommunications, steel, wind energy, food and marine products worth $16bn at the end of a business conference attended by Mr Wen in the capital, Delhi, on Wednesday evening.

This overtakes the $10bn of agreements signed between Indian and American businesspeople during the recent visit of US President Barack Obama.

Ahmadinejad to attend UN disarmament meeting – Ban

UNITED NATIONS: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to attend a high-level U.N. meeting next week aimed at reviving stalled global disarmament talks, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.

That meeting, scheduled for Sept. 24 during the annual General Assembly gathering of world leaders in New York, follows 12 years of inaction at the world’s sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum in Geneva.

“The schedule has not been firmly set, but I understand he (Ahmadinejad) is going to participate in the high-level meeting on disarmament,” Ban told reporters during a monthly news conference.

He added that he had received a request from Ahmadinejad for a bilateral meeting while the Iranian president is in town.

A U.S. official told Reuters in Washington that President arack Obama would probably not attend the disarmament talks, since

US seeks stability in Afghanistan: Obama

TORONTO: President Barack Obama says his country seeking stability in Afghanistan not occupation.

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NKorea says it must bolster nuclear capability

SEOUL: North Korea said Monday it must bolster its nuclear capability to cope with hostile U.

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Asian stock markets post muted gains

TOKYO: Asian stock markets mostly posted muted gains Monday as investors searched for fresh cues after a flat session on Wall Street and a pledge by world leaders to reduce budget deficits.

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Arrest near G-20 summit site

TORONTO: Police on heightened alert before a summit of world leaders stopped a car with a large container strapped to its roof and arrested the driver after finding gasoline canisters, a chainsaw, a cross bow, arrows and sledge hammers inside.

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Copenhagen Climate latest updates

Copenhagen Climate, Police were on alert in Copenhagen on Wednesday morning as protesters gathered for a mass demonstration. The protesters say they plan to move into the conference area where world leaders are meeting, disrupt the sessions and hold a ‘people’s summit’.

The protest comes after more than a week of talks at the UN Climate Conference, in which world leaders have so far failed to reach a consensus on how to tackle global warming. The world leaders have until a main summit on Friday to agree a deal under a deadline set at a meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007. Negotiations since Bali have been marred by mistrust between rich and poor nations.
As the deadline approaches for a pact that would favour a shift to low-carbon businesses, some politicians are warning of the risks of failure in the 193-nation negotiations, even as they urge compromises to allow a breakthrough.

Protesters gathering on Wednesday morning said they felt their demands for action were not being listened to. The climate conference has been the scene of several protests and demonstrations since it started on December 7. People from all over the world have descended on the Danish capital to urge their governments to come up with a binding climate agreement.
Various lobby groups have been stationed outside the Bella Centre, where the conference is taking place, since the start, while inside, a few smaller protests take place each day.

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Copenhagen Climate latest updates was first posted on December 16, 2009 at 11:13 pm.

World Leaders Agree To Delay Binding Climate Deal Until After Copenhagen

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Harper Other World Leaders Pressing U.S. At APEC Summit

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Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is rivalling [...]