Tribal Oriya girl meets G8 leaders in Italy

September 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Militants have killed seven tribal chiefs in Pakistan's Bannu district, TV channels reported Thursday. The seven dead tribal elders were members of peace committee bodies supporting the Pakistani government against militants.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas to push for the resumption of peace talks in the Middle East. The leaders met Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting here.

September 22nd, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - A three-year-old girl has survived after falling from the fourth floor of a building in Brazil's Sao Paulo city, authorities said. The child suffered multiple fractures but was conscious, doctors said.

September 2nd, 2009 KABUL - Some of Afghanistan's prominent tribal leaders have claimed that President Hamid Karzai and his team have forged 23,900 votes. The New York Times quoted tribal leaders in Shorabak District in Kandahar Province, as saying that aides to Karzai's brother Ahmed Walidetained the governor of Shorabak, Delaga Bariz, and shut down all of the district's 45 polling sites on election day.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Just hours after she was released by her kidnappers, a 10-year-old Chinese girl helped the police arrest them on Wednesday. Cops in Xuchang, Henan province, revealed that the little girl was kidnapped on her way to school in the morning.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been busy with back-to-back meetings of the G8-G5 summit and bilaterals with heads of other countries in this quake-hit town of central Italy, his wife Gursharan Kaur had her own engagements that included an audience with the Pope. Kaur was taken with wives of other top leaders by Italian authorities to have a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in Rome, about 100 km from here.

July 10th, 2009 Obama to conclude summit talks, meet with popeL'AQUILA, Italy — Global problems, Africa and the pope all figure in President Barack Obama's day. He's in Italy, where the three-day G-8 summit on climate change and the economy is wrapping up.

July 10th, 2009 Obama says G-8 summit leaders tackled tough issuesL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama is hailing "candid and spirited discussions" at the G-8 summit, saying the world must come to grips with chronic problems like economic stagnation and climate change. Summing up three days of talks with fellow leaders in Italy, Obama said he and others have agreed that a full recovery from the global economic recession is "still a ways off." He also noted that he and the leaders of other industrialized nations had productive discussions about limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapon systems.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Convincing her father to let her go to school has paid dividends for a teenaged Indian girl from a tribal area of Orissa. She has now rubbed shoulders with some of the most powerful people on this earth - such as US President Barack Obama - in this quake-hit Italian town.

July 9th, 2009 Obama, other G-8 leaders expand Italian summitL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama is in Italy, midway through the three-day G-8 economic summit that is heavily focused on climate change and world trade. His round of meetings today begins with one-on-one talks with the president of Brazil.

July 8th, 2009 Draft: G-8 leaders say stimulus still neededL'AQUILA, Italy — Group of Eight leaders are emphasizing the need to press on with government measures to stimulate the economy — while also studying ways to wind up those strategies. That's according to a draft statement on the first day of their annual summit Wednesday in L'Aquila, Italy.

July 8th, 2009 G8 agree on 2 degree Celsius limitL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama and other leaders at the Group of Eight summit have struck a new agreement on fighting global warming. The leaders said in a statement at their summit in Italy that their goal was to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

July 8th, 2009 L'AQUILA, Italy — The White House says it's not quite time for industrialized nations to pull the plug on economic stimulus efforts. Economic adviser Mike Froman said Wednesday that world leaders gathered at a G-8 summit in Italy will seek a balance between continuing to stimulate sluggish economies and looking for exit strategies.

June 29th, 2009 China's Hu to attend G8 meeting in ItalyBEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend next month's meeting in Italy between leaders of the Group of Eight nations and those of emerging economies, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Hu will attend the July 8-10 meeting in Trieste, Italy, at the invitation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, it said in a statement.

June 22nd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - She hails from Italy, has lived in India for 30 years and is famous in her own right. The woman in question is not Congress president Sonia Gandhi, but her ardent admirer and Odissi dancer Ileana Citaristi.