Pope speaks outfor world's hungry
ROME (AP): Pope Benedict XVI decried the worsening plight of the world's one billion hungry yesterday as a United Nations (UN) food summit rallied around a strategy of more help to farmers in poor nations, but rebuffed a UN appeal to commit billions...

New Greenpeace chief plans tofight poverty
JOHANNESBURG (AP): An anti-apartheid campaigner who, yesterday, became the head of the environmental group, Greenpeace, says he will use his activism know-how to spur governments into reversing climate change, stressing that unless dramatic steps...

Pro-Cuba embargo money flows to US lawmakers
MIAMI (AP): Supporters of tough United States sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than US$10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign...