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TOKYO: Leaders from the Group of Eight industrial powers will agree to establish a task force at their summit next month to tackle the world food crisis, a report said Monday. The group will aim to address the immediate problem of food shortages in poorer countries as well as address longer-term challenges such as boosting food production, the Yomiuri Shimbun said, citing unnamed government sources.
-- AFP
SEOUL: The office of President Lee Myung Bak said on Monday that use of violence by rioters opposing the resumption of US beef imports has exceeded permissible levels in the viewpoint of the people and the government. "Violence inflicted by street demonstrators on law enforcement officers has already gone beyond the average tolerable level of the people and thus won't be tolerated anymore," presidential spokesman Lee Dong Kwan said.
-- Xinhua
TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the enemies of Iran and Pakistan are not able to scrap ties between the two countries, Iran's English-language Press TV reported on Monday. Tehran-Islamabad economic cooperation is on the rise, Ahmadinejad said, adding that Iran is prepared to promote bilateral cooperation in trade, energy, transportation, joint venture, and transfer of technology.
-- Xinhua
LOS ANGELES: The president of the US Screen Actors Guild (SAG) said on Sunday there were no immediate plans to strike against Hollywood studios, even though a contract with the studios was set to expire late Monday. "We have taken no steps to initiate a strike authorization vote by the members of Screen Actors Guild. Any talk about a strike or a management lockout at this point is simply a distraction," said SAG president Alan Rosenberg in a statement.
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WASHINGTON: Retired US Gen. Wesley Clark on Sunday said Republican White House hopeful John McCain lacked executive experience to be president, in rare criticism of the Vietnam veteran's military service. Clark told CBS television that McCain was a hero for enduring years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, "but he hasn't held executive responsibility and hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall."
-- AFP
SEOUL: South Korea has lifted restrictions imposed to curb an outbreak of bird flu, which led to the culling of more than eight million birds, the agriculture ministry said Monday. It said curbs on the movement of birds, people and vehicles were lifted in all districts hit by avian flu as of Sunday.
-- AFP
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