BUENOS AIRES, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - World trade talks have not failed and can still be revived, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva insisted as he embarked Monday on efforts to bring the United States, India and China back to the table.

'I don't believe that the Doha Round is yet a failure,' Lula said in his weekly radio address broadcast Monday.

LONDON, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - Brazil is prepared to hit the United States with court action over its farm subsidies following the collapse of world trade talks, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim told the Financial Times newspaper.

PARIS, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - Any new attempt to grasp the grail of a world trade pact will probably have to wait until next year, after elections in the United States and India, despite some calls for more talks now, economists say.

SAO PAULO, August 2, 2008 (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Saturday that he has launched consultations with the United States, China and India to salvage world trade talks that recently collapsed.

GENEVA, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - Talks at a technical level are under way at the World Trade Organization on safeguard issues that ended marathon negotiations on a global trade deal this week, WTO head Pascal Lamy revealed on Friday.

He told journalists it was necessary to overcome the safeguard technical issue that had caused the negotiations to break down.

GENEVA, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - Talks are technical level are under way at the World Trade Organization on safeguard issues that ended marathon negotiations on a global trade deal this week, WTO head Pascal Lamy revealed on Friday.

He told journalists it was necessary to overcome the safeguard technical issue that had caused the negotiations to break down.

NEW DELHI, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - India said on Thursday it was willing to return to the negotiating table to work out a new global trade deal but vowed not to bend on its demands for protection of poor farmers.

It also pinned the blame for the talks' collapse earlier this week in Geneva squarely on the United States.

NEW DELHI, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - India said on Thursday it was hopeful world trade talks that collapsed this week can be relaunched and expressed its commitment to bringing them to a 'successful conclusion.'

PARIS, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy said on Thursday that the collapse of global trade talks showed that emerging economies wanted an end to 'colonial' practices favouring the developed world.

PARIS, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - The trade in goods, initially via barter and then through the introduction of money, have been a source of conflict throughout human history.

Some key developments:

Most trade is local. In Europe, trade between city-states develops in and around the Mediterranean.