US, EU try again on gases issue

Brussels - Senior government officials from the US and the EU are to meet in Canada this week to try to salvage a deal on curbing…

Brussels - Senior government officials from the US and the EU are to meet in Canada this week to try to salvage a deal on curbing global warming, an EU official said yesterday.

The two-day meeting, which begins in Ottawa tomorrow, will be the first between the two sides since UN-sponsored talks to set a global strategy on cutting "greenhouse gas" emissions collapsed spectacularly last month.

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