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Spain will call for a eurozone budget and finance minister to oversee it at an August 28 summit with France, Germany and Italy, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Monday.
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Trieste -
Seven EU and six Western Balkan nations hold an annual summit Wednesday in Trieste, with leaders hoping to bolster security in one of the continent's more vulnerable flanks and forge closer ties.
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Berlin -
Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday compared the far-left and anarchist radicals who rampaged through the G20 summit host city of Hamburg to "neo-Nazis and Islamist terrorists".
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Hamburg -
Fresh clashes erupted early Sunday in the streets of Hamburg following the end of the G20 summit, with protesters setting fire to a number of vehicles, police said.
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Hamburg -
G20 countries have managed to avoid a total bust-up with Donald Trump over climate change, leaving the door open for Washington to return to the Paris Agreement -- but at the cost of risky concessions.
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Washington -
During a difficult visit to Europe Donald Trump appeared out of sync with traditional allies, struggling to show that unorthodox strategies toward rival powers Russia and China can deliver results.
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Hamburg -
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Saturday that his country would not ratify the Paris climate accord, speaking at the end of the G20 summit in Germany.
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Hamburg -
President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he expects Russian-US cooperation will improve under Donald Trump and that the American president is "very different" in real life compared to on TV.
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Hamburg -
G20 nations launched an unprecedented initiative Saturday at the group's summit in Germany to fight poverty in Africa, but critics called the plan half-hearted.
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Hamburg -
From US First Lady Melania Trump's travails to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's facial twitches, here are some of the moments that livened up this year's G20 summit in Hamburg.
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Washington -
The US ambassador to the United Nations insisted Saturday that President Donald Trump had confronted Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin head-on over allegations of election interference, adding, "Everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections.
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Hamburg -
For a moment Saturday the United States was represented by another Trump on the world stage, when the president's daughter Ivanka took a seat among a table of G20 leaders in Germany.
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Hamburg -
World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies.
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Hamburg -
US President Donald Trump's first G20 summit wrapped up Saturday in Germany, marked by violent clashes outside and political discord inside.
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Hamburg -
President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he expects Russian-US cooperation will improve under Donald Trump and that the American is "very different" in real life.
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Hamburg -
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that "deep differences" remain between her and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after they met on the sidelines of the G20 summit.
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Hamburg -
For a moment at the G20 summit on Saturday the United States was represented by another Trump, when the president's daughter Ivanka took a seat at the table of world leaders.
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Hamburg -
Raging street battles that marred Germany's G20 summit have sparked a political fight over how Hamburg could descend into "mob rule" and why Chancellor Angela Merkel chose a hotbed of leftist militancy as the venue.
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Hamburg -
US President Donald Trump said Saturday his controversial state visit to Britain will go ahead, adding that he was hoping for a "very powerful" trade deal with London "very, very quickly".
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Hamburg -
US President Donald Trump won key concessions on climate and trade Saturday from world leaders at the most fractious G20 summit to date, in exchange for preserving the unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies.
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Hamburg -
The G20 group of major economies agreed Friday to redouble efforts to tackle the financing of extremist groups, in a rare point of agreement during a fractious summit in Germany.
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Hamburg -
A German officer fired a warning shot in Hamburg on Friday evening as anti-G20 protests raged in the German city for a second straight evening, police said."A police officer was attacked by several violent people..
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Hamburg -
Donald Trump pressed Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday on allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election in their eagerly-awaited first face-to-face talks, according to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Hamburg -
World leaders at the G20 summit acknowledged US President Donald Trump's divergent stance on climate change, according to a draft communique seen by AFP Friday.
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Hamburg -
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday underlined the importance of staying calm in the North Korea crisis, saying nuclear-armed Pyongyang should be dealt with in a "pragmatic" manner."The North Korea nuclear problem is very serious.
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Hamburg -
US President Donald Trump said Friday he still wants Mexico to pay for a planned border wall, as he met his Mexican counterpart for the first time as head of state.
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Paris -
The clashes between demonstrators and security forces which have overshadowed the Group of 20 (G20) summit in the German city of Hamburg are part of a long tradition of often violent protests at major international summits.
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Hamburg -
Syria, Ukraine, alleged Russian meddling in the US election: there are a host of contentious foreign policy issues facing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as they meet for the first time Friday at the G20 summit.
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Hamburg -
US First Lady Melania Trump was stuck inside her guesthouse in Hamburg on Friday because of anti-G20 protests, her spokeswoman said.
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Hamburg -
Police in Hamburg on Friday requested reinforcements from elsewhere in Germany to help cope with demonstrations and clashes around the G20 summit, a police spokesman told AFP.
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Toronto's Harbour Police patrolling waterfront before the G20 summit begins. Janusz Überall
Toronto officials have erected a 3-metre (9 foot) security fence around areas of the downtown core ahead of the G20 Summit.
Leaders of the 5 BRICS countries. Screen capture from video
The BRICS countries summit, April 2011. BRICS
File photo: U.S. President Barack Obama meets Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at a dinner with tech company executives in Woodside, Calif., in 2011. White House / Pete Souza
Toronto officials have erected a 3-metre (9 foot) security fence around areas of the downtown core ahead of the G20 Summit.
Naomi Watts with Maria Belon at the premiere of 'The Impossible' Summit
Toronto officials have erected a 3-metre (9 foot) security fence around areas of the downtown core ahead of the G20 Summit; creating a ghost town in some areas of the city.
Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper talking during the G20 Summit in Toronto White House Photo by Pete Souza
King Street West in Toronto the Friday night before the G20 Summit was almost empty.
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NEGOTIATION: Talks between Ukraine and the Russian Federation are scheduled to begin Wednesday in Minsk, Belarus, shown above. Texx1978/Wikimedia Commons
A protester hides behind a police cordon during a demonstrators march against the 2014 NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, on September 4, 2014 Justin Tallis, AFP
Scenes from downtown Chicago on the first day of major NATO protests. An intersection is shut down due to a sit-in The Chicago Man
Clowning it up at the G20 summit in Toronto, June 2010, inches from the riot squad
Ahead of the G20 Summit in Toronto, city officials erect a 3-metre (9 foot) security fence and remove glass bus shelters from parts of the downtown core. Security costs is estimated to reach $1.1 billion.
Naomi Watts and Tom Holland Summit
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