G8 2009

G8 Protesters Strip Down, Scale Smokestacks, Occupy Power Plants

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 08.08.2009 | World


ROME — Environmentalists broke into power stations across Italy and shed their clothes in downtown Rome on Wednesday as world leaders discussed ...

Obama, G8 Leaders Agree On Climate Target

AP | COLLEEN BARRY and JANE WARDELL | Posted 08.08.2009 | World


L'AQULA, Italy — Britain and the United States may see room for more stimulus. Germany is worried that it has done too much already. The leader...

Hu Jintao Skips Obama Meeting To Return Home Due To Ethnic Fighting

nytimes.com | ALAN COWELL | Posted 08.08.2009 | World


PARIS President Hu Jintao of China cut short a trip to Italy on Wednesday to fly home after the deadly ethnic clashes in the northwestern Xinjiang reg...

US, other wealthy nations vow global warming cuts

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 08.08.2009 | World


L'AQUILA, Italy — Targeting global warming, President Barack Obama and other leaders of the world's richest industrial countries pledged Wednesd...

G8 Summit Italy - Everything You Need To Know

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 08.07.2009 | World


When world leaders converge in the Italian city of L'Aquila this week for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit, the economic crisis and global warming will...

G8 Attacks Iran Over Postelection Violence

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 07.27.2009 | World


TRIESTE, Italy — Group of Eight foreign ministers criticized Iran's postelection violence, and urged its ruling clergy on Friday to ensure the o...

Obama, Pope To Meet In Italy

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 07.25.2009 | World


VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama will meet on July 10, a much-anticipated Vatican audience with a president under att...