DEAUVILLE, France, May 27 (UPI) -- The world's leading economic powers closed their summit in France Friday by pledging aid to new democracies in the Arab world and Africa.
The Group of Eight -- the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia, plus the European Union -- offered a total of $20 billion to Egypt and Tunisia, whose new prime ministers were in attendance, and to sub-Saharan Africa, the Voice of America reported.