G8 and G5 leaders meet in Italy

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Convincing her father to let her go to school has paid dividends for a teenaged Indian girl from a tribal area of Orissa. She has now rubbed shoulders with some of the most powerful people on this earth - such as US President Barack Obama - in this quake-hit Italian town.

July 10th, 2009 Obama to conclude summit talks, meet with popeL'AQUILA, Italy — Global problems, Africa and the pope all figure in President Barack Obama's day. He's in Italy, where the three-day G-8 summit on climate change and the economy is wrapping up.

July 10th, 2009 Obama says G-8 summit leaders tackled tough issuesL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama is hailing "candid and spirited discussions" at the G-8 summit, saying the world must come to grips with chronic problems like economic stagnation and climate change. Summing up three days of talks with fellow leaders in Italy, Obama said he and others have agreed that a full recovery from the global economic recession is "still a ways off." He also noted that he and the leaders of other industrialized nations had productive discussions about limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapon systems.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - A 16 year old tribal girl from Orissa's Koraput district rubbed shoulders with world leaders at the Junior Eight summit in Italy. Sanjukta Pangi is representing India in the J8 (Junior 8) international youth summit, which is currently being held in Italy along with the G8 conclave.

July 9th, 2009 Obama, other G-8 leaders expand Italian summitL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama is in Italy, midway through the three-day G-8 economic summit that is heavily focused on climate change and world trade. His round of meetings today begins with one-on-one talks with the president of Brazil.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Leaders of the Group of Five emerging countries -- Brazil, India, China, Mexico and South Africa -- met on the sidelines of G-8 Summit on Wednesday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and South African President Kgalema Motlanthe met in the talian town of L'Aquila.

July 9th, 2009 Summit draft: G8/G5 seek Doha trade deal in 2010L'AQUILA, Italy — Leaders of developed and developing nations meeting in the quake-ravaged city of L'Aquila are seeking agreement to wrap up stalled trade talks in 2010 and head off protectionist policies. A draft of a joint declaration by the Group of Eight obtained Thursday by The Associated Press sets a goal of concluding the stalled Doha round next year.

July 8th, 2009 Draft: G-8 leaders say stimulus still neededL'AQUILA, Italy — Group of Eight leaders are emphasizing the need to press on with government measures to stimulate the economy — while also studying ways to wind up those strategies. That's according to a draft statement on the first day of their annual summit Wednesday in L'Aquila, Italy.

July 8th, 2009 L'AQUILA, Italy — The White House says it's not quite time for industrialized nations to pull the plug on economic stimulus efforts. Economic adviser Mike Froman said Wednesday that world leaders gathered at a G-8 summit in Italy will seek a balance between continuing to stimulate sluggish economies and looking for exit strategies.

July 8th, 2009 G8 agree on 2 degree Celsius limitL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama and other leaders at the Group of Eight summit have struck a new agreement on fighting global warming. The leaders said in a statement at their summit in Italy that their goal was to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

June 29th, 2009 China's Hu to attend G8 meeting in ItalyBEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend next month's meeting in Italy between leaders of the Group of Eight nations and those of emerging economies, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Hu will attend the July 8-10 meeting in Trieste, Italy, at the invitation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, it said in a statement.

June 26th, 2009 TRIESTE - The world's eight most powerful nations have given Iran until September to respond to a US offer of direct talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, G8 foreign ministers agreed Friday. The G8's leaders are to meet in New York in September on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly, and that will be "an opportunity to verify whether Iran has responded to the international community's negotiation offer," Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said.

June 12th, 2009 UN chief: key Mideast peacemakers to meetUNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that key parties trying to promote Mideast peace will meet in Italy later this month. Ban gave no details on the date and place but said Thursday he expects the Quartet of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia to discuss the next steps to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace.

June 11th, 2009 Advocacy group says Italy has failed in Africa aidLONDON — Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid group backed by Bono and Bob Geldof warned Thursday. The G-8 — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia — laid out ambitious plans in 2005 to increase aid to Africa by $25 billion a year by 2010, more than doubling the 2004 level of aid to the continent.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets with US President Barack Obama later Thursday in the first engagement between the two leaders. The two are here to attend the G20 summit.