Boston.com / News / World / Officials proceed on debt relief: "Concluding two days of talks, finance officials from the leading economic powers pressed ahead yesterday with efforts to wipe out poor nations' debts and hoped to complete a deal later this year.

Officials insisted they were making progress. But international aid groups, disappointed by the failure to finalize an agreement over the weekend, accused the major industrialized countries of dragging their feet and said further delay could worsen the plight of the world's poorest people."

(Via The Boston Globe.)