France steps up pledge to combat world poverty (AP)

AP - The 10-year-old promise to lift the world’s poorest is unfulfilled and with world economies clawing back from the worst recession since World War II, the French president and others implored leaders on Monday not to return to their “old bad habits” of ignoring global poverty.

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