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summit meeting stories: 8 news summaries

(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

(Newser) - World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan told a summit in Mexico today that, though most cases of swine flu were not deadly, the virus cannot be stopped, the BBC reports. “With well over 100 countries reporting cases, once a fully fit pandemic virus emerges, its further international spread is... More »

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United Nations • Mexico • Cancun • World Health Organization • summit meeting • pandemic • swine flu • Margaret Chan • H1N1 virus

 Thai Protesters Disrupt 
 Asian Summit 

Demonstrators want to show world the flaws in their government

Apr 10, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of demonstrators in the Thai tourist town of Pattaya blocked the entrance to the building hosting an East Asian summit meeting today, giving foreign leaders a firsthand look at the country’s political schism. Economic concerns weighed heavily with the protesters, most supporters of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra; one... More »

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Thailand • Bangkok • Thaksin Shinawatra • ASEAN • protesters • summit meeting • financial crisis • Abhisit Vejjajiva

Sarko Threatens to Walk Out
of G20 Summit

French prez seeks tough financial regulations—or else

Mar 31, 09 2:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy may walk out on the G20 summit if things don't go his way, the Times of London reports. The French president—who blames "Anglo-Saxons" for the financial crisis—is pushing for tougher global financial regulation and has told his ministers that he will abandon the talks if... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • G20 • summit meeting • financial crisis

(Newser) - Security patrols for next week's G20 summit, take note: A protest in London today drew an estimated 35,000 people, about three times as many as expected, the Guardian reports. Organizers of the march—a coalition of unions, church groups, and charities—are pushing for movement on “jobs, justice,... More »

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environment • London • England • protests • global economy • job • G20 • summit meeting • economic downturn • march

World Leaders Desperately Seeking Obama

President-elect avoids awkward meetings at summit by staying in Chicago

Nov 12, 08 1:31 PM CST
(Newser) - With the leaders of 19 nations converging on Washington and clamoring to meet with the president-elect, the situation has become, as Barack Obama’s advisers tell the New York Times, “awkward.” Russian officials apparently thought President Dmitri Medvedev would be meeting with Obama, who transition advisers are keeping... More »

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Barack Obama • Dmitry Medvedev • Washington, DC • George W. Bush • G20 • summit meeting • President Obama

OPINION

Dictator Cat Remains Out
of the Bag

Spur-of-the-moment 'absurdity' burdens Obama's candidacy

May 23, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama was speaking off the cuff last summer when he deemed President Bush’s refusal to meet with dictators “a disgrace,” but “what started as a gaffe became policy,” Charles Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post. "By now, it has become doctrine."... More »

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Barack Obama • diplomacy • gaffe • presidential candidates • summit meeting

 Bush Boosts
 Battered NAFTA
 at Summit

Trading partners meet in New Orleans

Apr 22, 08 3:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush yesterday opened a two-day economic summit in New Orleans with Mexico and Canada amid growing hostility to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is widely blamed for US job losses. Bush is using the meeting with the trillion-dollar trading partners to highlight support for NAFTA as the... More »

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New Orleans • Mexico • Canada • Felipe Calderon • recession • NAFTA • Stephen Harper • summit meeting • National Security Council • Global Trade Watch • World Trade Organization. • US Chamber of Commerce

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