Canada will champion a new G8 identity focused on ending child mortality and other health woes in poorer countries when it hosts the club of industrialized nations in June, the government said Tuesday. Details of the plan are to be outlined in Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's keynote speech at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will use its presidency of the Group of Eight leading nations to push for improvements in maternal and child health in poor countries, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an editorial published on Tuesday. Canada is chair of the G8 this year and will host a summit in June. It also will co-host a summit of the ...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Tuesday that efforts to strengthen the global financial system to prevent another deep crisis will falter if the United States drops the ball on overhauling regulation of its own banking system. "We need to move on the ...

ROME (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Monday that agreeing a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger, which Brazil's president described as "the most devastating weapon of mass destruction." Government leaders and officials met in Rome for a three-day U.N. summit on how to help developing countries feed themselves, but anti-poverty ...