Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to show patience over the economy and argued that his just-concluded Asia trip was critical for U.S. exports, countering criticism he had returned empty-handed.
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India Times:
India will be the third largest economy in the world after China and US by 2050, a US-based think tank has said. World's top 20 countries to live | 10 challenges for India. (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India, the world's second biggest rice grower, plans to sell the grain in local markets from reserves to douse fears of shortage caused by the worst monsoon in three decades, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said on Saturday.
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New York Times:
President Obama was elected in part because he promised a more cooperative and pragmatic leadership in world affairs, but he should also be willing to stand up to Beijing.
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India Times:
The total GDP of India, China and the US in 2050 will be over 70% more than that of the other G20 countries combined, the reputed American think-tank, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the Tory leader wins the next election, he faces a media battle between News Corp and Google which could split his inner circleIt's the war for Cameron's ear. Greeting David Cameron, should he win the keys to 10 Downing Street next year, could be the mother of dust-ups between Google and News Corporation, two of the wor (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific:
NEW DELHI -- As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics.
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washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
BEIJING -- On his trip to China last week, President Obama negotiated with our government on climate change and other issues such as economic recovery, currency regulation and denuclearization. He noted at his town hall meeting in Shanghai that China and the United States lead the world in carbon...
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washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
When international climate negotiators convene next month in Copenhagen, Brazilian politician Marina Silva will serve as the conference's unofficial philosopher-activist. A native Amazonian who grew up in a community of rubber-tappers, Silva worked with murdered Amazonian activist Chico Mendes, won...
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washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
Last October, the president of the island nation of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, made all his ministers put on diving gear and held the first underwater cabinet meeting in history. His point? If nothing is done to slow global warming at next month's United Nations climate-change conference in Copen...
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washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
As a citizen, a father and a physicist, climate change tops my list of worries. As chief executive of the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the country's largest energy companies, I'm also finding it to be a formidable business challenge.
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India Times:
India, the world's second biggest rice grower, plans to sell the grain in local markets from reserves to douse fears of shortage caused by the worst monsoon in three decades, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said. (Read More)
The Guardian:
An increasing number of female jihadis are being recruited and trained to blow themselves up in the name of Islam. Alissa J Rubin visits an Iraqi jail to find out what makes young women turn themselves into killing machinesIn Baquba, the Iraqi police detective flipped pointlessly through a file on his desk; the daylight wa (Read More)
The Guardian:
M&S is one of the few remaining national treasures, which is why its new chief will find running it a high-wire actWhen Marc Bolland moves from Wm Morrison to take up the reins as new chief executive of M&S in February, he'd better be prepared for a level of exposure that he won't have experienced in Bradford. No disrespect (Read More)