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(Newser) - President Obama got his usual hero's welcome overseas, but this trip seemed "jarring and discordant" back in the US, writes Cynthia Tucker in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Our economic news keeps getting worse by the day, yet at summit after summit, “photos of the Obamas in resplendent, gold-bedecked... More »

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Europe • G8 summit • US economy • economic stimulus package • summit meeting • Obama administration • President Obama • economic crisis • palaces

video analysis

Obama Is Not a Horndog; Sarkozy, Well ...


Jul 10, 09 4:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A video of President Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy at yesterday's "Junior 8" G8 event has Matt Drudge and his buddies in a lather, but it's not quite as incriminating as a still photo makes it out to be, John Cook blogs for Gawker. "We undertook a Zapruder treatment"... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • G8 summit • President Obama • girl watching • backside

(Newser) - President Obama met with Pope Benedict for the first time today at the Vatican, the AP reports. The White House press secretary predicted a “frank discussion. I think that there's a lot that they agree on that they'll get a chance to discuss,” said Robert Gibbs. Though the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Italy • G8 summit • Vatican • Obama administration • President Obama • meeting • state visit

G8 Pledges $20B for Farmers in Poor Countries

In pushing for funds, Obama cites father's experience

Jul 10, 09 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the last day of a G8 summit stymied on climate change and trade, leaders have pledged $20 billion to farms in poor countries in the fight hunger, Reuters reports. Some $3.5 billion will come from the US, which wants to focus on farm aid instead of food aid.... More »

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international trade • Africa • Kenya • G8 summit • food aid • Obama administration • Barack Obama Sr. • President Obama • L'Aquila • poor countries • farm aid

(Newser) - Barack Obama endured a bit of good-natured ribbing at the G8 today from Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who raved about his country's come-from-behind victory over the US in the finals of soccer's Confederation Cup. The Brazilian leader gave Obama a signed jersey and used his catchphrase, "... More »

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Barack Obama • G8 summit • soccer • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • US Soccer • Robert Gibbs • L'Aquila • Confederations Cup

G8 Roundup

 G8 Leaders Stumble 
 on Climate Change

Obama urges a tougher stance on Iran, N. Korea nuclear programs

Jul 8, 09 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - World leaders gathered in L’Aquila, Italy, today for the G8 summit. Highlights from the day's meetings:
  • A forum organized by President Obama for the world’s 17 biggest polluters failed to approve a proposal to cut global emissions by 50% by 2050, the New York Times reports. The
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climate change • Iran • North Korea • global warming • nuclear weapons • G8 summit • financial crisis • economic crisis

OPINION

 Bruni to G8: 
 Don't Let 
 Recession Kill 
 AIDS Funding 

We've made progress—now don't let economy destroy it

Jul 8, 09 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gets in the op-ed game today, urging G8 leaders who are converging on L’Aquila, Italy, to continue the commitment their predecessors made 8 years ago to fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa. The earlier initiative helped the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria save some 4 million... More »

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Africa • France • malaria • world economy • G8 summit • recession • HIV/AIDS • tuberculosis • Carla Bruni • economy • L'Aquila

Berlusconi's Skeevy Love Life Vs. the G8

Italians worry sex scandals will tarnish country's image

Jul 8, 09 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is playing host to world leaders at the G8 meeting but many Italians fear his penchant for hosting teenage girls and escorts at his villa will overshadow and hurt the summit, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sex scandals have dogged the PM for months, trying... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • G8 summit • Group of Eight • sex • Silvio Berlusconi

(Newser) - President Obama arrived this morning in Rome ahead of his first G8 summit. Obama is meeting privately with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and PM Silvio Berlusconi before traveling to L'Aquila, the earthquake-ravaged town that is hosting the international confab. The coming three days' talks will focus on climate change, foreign... More »

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Barack Obama • Pope Benedict XVI • diplomacy • Italy • Giorgio Napolitano • G8 summit • Silvio Berlusconi • L'Aquila

(Newser) - Italy's decision to shift the G8 summit to the quake-damaged city of L'Aquila has raised major safety fears as aftershocks continue to rattle the region, reports the Washington Post. A 4.1 magnitude temblor hit the area Friday, with the epicenter just half a mile from where world leaders will... More »

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(Newser) - Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend the G8 summit and returned to China from Italy to deal with growing unrest in Xinjiang after some 160 people were killed in riots there, the Financial Times reports. Troops have flooded into the provincial capital, Urumqi, in a bid to restore... More »

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China • G8 summit • race riot • Hu Jintao • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

(Newser) - Pope Benedict delivers a broad criticism of contemporary capitalism in his latest encyclical, the Washington Post reports. The biggest problem with businesses today is that “they are almost exclusively answerable to their investors,” Benedict writes in the 144-page document. He proposes a radically different economic model in which... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • economics • G8 summit • Vatican • socialism • capitalism • economic crisis

(Newser) - World leaders have begun arriving in Italy for the G8 summit, which at the last minute Silvio Berlusconi relocated to L'Aquila—the devastated town where 300 died in a massive earthquake. While many praised the Italians for quickly rehousing the victims, rebuilding has been stalled and 15,000 people are... More »

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Italy • G8 summit • Group of Eight • Silvio Berlusconi • earthquake • L'Aquila

Italy Seeks to Move G8 to Quake-Hit Town

Berlusconi wants world leaders to meet in L'Aquila in July

Apr 23, 09 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi pledged today to move this summer's G8 summit to L'Aquila, where an earthquake killed 296 people and destroyed the homes of 65,000, Reuters reports. The meeting is set to take place on a small island off Sardinia, but the Italian PM said he would rather see the... More »

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Italy • G8 summit • Sardinia • Silvio Berlusconi • earthquake • L'Aquila • Abruzzo

 Bush Stuns
 G8 With 'Biggest
 Polluter' Boast 

President leaves other leaders open-mouthed with defiant farewell

Jul 10, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Bush concluded the last G8 summit of his presidency with a defiant final joke: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter," he quipped. The president then punched the air, his mouth fixed in a huge grin, the Daily Telegraph reports. Bush, who has faced international condemnation for years... More »

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environment • pollution • Nicolas Sarkozy • Gordon Brown • G8 summit • George W. Bush

 China, India Reject
 G8 Carbon Plan 

Developing countries show impotence of conference

Jul 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Neither China nor India agreed to adopt the G8's targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2050 at their joint meeting today. Asia's two big developing economies, joined by Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, said carbon reductions would endanger their growth and exacerbate poverty, and that rich nations should clean up... More »

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China • climate change • environment • Nicolas Sarkozy • G8 summit • developing countries • Yasuo Fukuda • carbon emissions

ANALYSIS

 Vague G8 Goals
 Deflate Green Hopes 

'Fuzzy-minded' declaration on climate change sinks hopes for immediate action

Jul 9, 08 2:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - G8 leaders are hailing an agreement to cut carbon emissions in half by 2050 as "major progress" in combating climate change—but their failure to come up with concrete shorter-term goals is a major letdown, Bryan Walsh writes in Time. The agreement, so vague it doesn't even say which... More »

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climate change • G8 summit • Group of Eight • summit • carbon emissions

Opinion

Kissinger: US Must Temper Approach as Russia Evolves

Medvedev's election may signal real political change, so ease back on the bullying

Jul 8, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev has more power than some in the West believe, and Russia's political system is still evolving as Vladimir Putin moves from president to prime minister, Henry Kissinger writes in the Washington Post—and it behooves the US to throttle back. "The pace of such an evolution will... More »

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Russia • US foreign policy • Vladimir Putin • G8 summit • Ukraine • foreign policy • Henry Kissinger • Dmitry Medvedev

 G8 Agrees to Cut Emissions 50% 

But doesn't settle on any interim goals

Jul 8, 08 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The G8 leaders have resolved to cut greenhouse gases in half by 2050, something they’d only agreed to “seriously consider” before. But the US has resisted setting any interim goals, the BBC reports, leading environmentalists to deride the pact. The group will also try to convince some 200... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • G8 summit • Group of Eight • carbon emissions

G8 Leaders Chew on Global Food Crisis
Over Caviar

Luxe meals by 60 chefs follow starvation talks

Jul 8, 08 5:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The global food crisis tops the agenda at this year's G8 summit—and the talks seem to be hungry work, reports the Independent. The 18 dishes at the eight-course luxury dinner served to the leaders last night included caviar, sea urchin, and Kyoto beef—followed by a "G8 fantasy... More »

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