Author: By Guy Adams

Japan and Canada along with scores of developing nations succeeded yesterday in preventing any restrictions being imposed on the harvest of the fish, which is highly prized in sushi restaurants, on the grounds that a ban would devastate the world’s fishing economies. Delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Doha voted by a margin of 68 to 20 against a proposal to immediately outlaw the sale of bluefin. A weaker measure supported by the EU, which would have introduced a ban in 2011, was also rejected by 72 votes to 43.

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Author: By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent

He told delegates at his high-profile conference on social care yesterday that
forcing people to pay for their future care costs may be the only way of
giving people “peace of mind” that they will not be left unable to
afford their care bills.

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Author: Reuters

Brown will host the event in London on 28 January. The high-level meeting will
be held in parallel with an international conference on Afghanistan the same
day.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian who says he was trained by
al Qaeda in Yemen, is accused of trying to blow up a US passenger jet as it
approached Detroit on Christmas Day.

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Author: Interview by Gillian Orr

We have a huge amount at stake in terms of the nature of the negotiations and
the policies that are being put forward as well as an interest in amplifying
the voices of those communities in the climate justice movement. We’re
demanding rapid steep reductions in emissions from the industrial countries
without offsets and to support climate debt so there’s a transparent funding
mechanism that’s not trade based. We are in the Bella Center today meeting
other groups from the US to demand real targets, funding and rights. We also
attend an incredible demonstration by the Indigenous Environmental Network
against the tar sands development in Alberta, Canada.

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Jacques Diouf said a three-day summit in Rome “didn’t go as far” as he had hoped. “If it has been possible to mobilise trillions of dollars to stimulate the global economy to combat the financial crisis, the world should be able to come up with resources to solve its hunger problem,” he added.

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Author: By Andy Philip, Press Association

David Miliband told delegates at the Nato Parliamentary Assembly that Britain
would be “ready” to send more troops as part of an agreed strategy.

He said: “I, as much as anyone else, want to bring our troops back home to
safety.

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Author: By Greg Walton

The UN is to hold a conference in Copenhagen next month that it hopes will
lead to a dramatic shift in the world’s attitude to climate change.

Read more on Copenhagen in the balance…

Author: By Michael Savage, Political correspondent

Centuries of political impartiality demanded of the Speaker were rolled back in spectacular fashion by Mr Bercow yesterday, as he described the far-right party as “evil”, adding that it was a “poison which we could well do without”. It is thought to be the first time that a Speaker has ever launched such an assault on a legal party.

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Author: By David Hughes, Press Association

On the final day of the Brighton conference, Mr Miliband said Labour had the
energy and ideas to win the next election.

And he accused Tory leader David Cameron of showing the “white flag of
surrender to euro-extremism” in his own party.

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Author: By Michael Savage

Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, has asked the former chief inspector of schools, Maurice Smith, to conduct a review of measures designed to protect pupils from racism. Aides confirmed yesterday that his report, which will be completed by January, will consider a total ban on BNP membership.

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