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Fri 06 Jun 2007Bono says G8 Aids pledge 'misleading'Singer and campaigner Bono said today that world leaders at the G8 summit had produced a "deliberately misleading" pledge to fight Aids and other diseases."I am exasperated," Bono told said from the Baltic resort where leaders from the world's rich nations were rounding off their three-day summit. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation. It is deliberately misleading," he added.