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G20 leaders' statement on climate change highlights rift with US
World leaders have made clear the US’s isolated stance on climate change, with 19 of the G20 countries affirming their commitment to the “irreversible” Paris climate agreement. After lengthy negotiations that stretched well into Saturday, the final joint statement from the meeting in Hamburg notes Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris deal while stating that the world’s other major economies all still support the international effort to slow dangerous global warming.
Russian official mysteriously deletes tweet picturing Ivanka standing in for her father at G20
A Russian official appears to have deleted an image that showed Ivanka Trump sitting in for her father at a G20 meeting of world leaders - a photograph that led people to accuse the US President of behaving like a dictator. Svetlana Lukash, whose Twitter bio describes her as a “G20 sherpa” tweeted a series of images from the meetings in Hamburg. One of them read: “2nd day of #G20 Hamburg summit starts with Africa, Migration & Health.
Trump let Putin off the hook at the G20 summit – but does it matter?
Donald Trump held all the cards going into his first meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hamburg. Russia has been caught red-handed trying to derail the American presidential elections, its economy has been hobbled by western sanctions for its misdeeds on the world stage – redrawing Ukraine’s borders, shooting down a civilian airliner – and by falling oil prices. Putin was the pariah at the party.
Millions in Path of Deadly Storms from Kentucky to Pennsylvania
Wind gusts at nearly 90 mph are blamed for killing a 72-year-old Grand Haven, Michigan homeowner when a large tree fell onto his house.
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