By Valerie Volcovici
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will target carbon emissions from power plants as part of a second-term climate change agenda expected to be rolled out in the next few weeks, his top energy and climate adviser said on Wednesday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the United States understood it had to do more to fight climate change and he pledged that more action was coming.
Our dangerous carbon emissions have come down, but we know we have to do more. And we will do more, he told a cro...
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim discusses the global economic outlook and the business case for going green at a Thomson Reuters event in London. (ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION)
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By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton
BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will unveil plans for a sharp reduction in nuclear warheads in a landmark speech at the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday that comes 50 years after John F. Kennedy declared Ich bin ein Berliner in a defiant Cold War ...
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By Dominic Lau
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average hit a one-week high on Wednesday, with traders citing the launch of a near $780 million investment trust as a driving factor, while SoftBank Corp rose as it looked likely to win the battle for Sprint Nextel.
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By Jeff Mason
BERLIN (Reuters) - In the city where John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave defiant Cold War speeches, President Barack Obama will call on Wednesday for a renewed spirit of activism by the West in tackling 21st century challenges from nuclear proliferation to climate change.<...
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