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Russia chill permeates G20 summit
BRISBANE (AFP) – Russias Cold War-style standoff with the West sent a chill through G20 talks aimed at heating up the world economy on Saturday as leaders kicked off a summit in Australia.Global warming also emerged as a focus for leaders including Barack Obama, Russias Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping of China, posing another distraction for...
Russina chill permeates G20 summit
BRISBANE (AFP) – Russias Cold War-style standoff with the West sent a chill through G20 talks aimed at heating up the world economy on Saturday as leaders kicked off a summit in Australia.Global warming also emerged as a focus for leaders including Barack Obama, Russias Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping of China, posing another distraction for...
Hostile G20 kicks off with mixed agenda
Brisbane (Australia) (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will face hostile Western leaders around the table at the G20 Saturday, having been accused of being a bully and harbouring tsarist ambitions in the ill-tempered build up to the gathering of world statesmen.G20 leaders representing the bulk of the worlds economic and diplomatic...
Euro pushes higher as eurozone avoids recession in Q3
NEW YORK (AFP) – The euro gained against the dollar Friday helped by slightly improved growth numbers for the eurozone that showed the region still avoiding a new recession. Official data showed France and Germany narrowly avoided a new recession in the third quarter, while the broader 18-nation eurozone also faces anemic growth with just a...
Territorial row
How one of the region’s lingering territorial disputes can come to an end Japan’s neighbourhood is intractable. Cold War legacy severely affects it even today. It has been confronting with post-war territorial disputes with the Russian Federation, China, and South Korea. These thee disputes have an historical legacy. None of the...
Australia, Britain tell Putin to stop being a bully
Vladimir Putin faces an icy reception at the G20 summit with Britain’s David Cameron telling the Russian leader to stop bullying smaller states and Australia’s Tony Abbott accusing him of trying to relive the “lost glories of tsarism”. The Russian president was due in Brisbane later Friday for the weekend summit of world powers at a...
Good news for eurozone as Germany, France skirt recession
Frankfurt (AFP) – The economic clouds over Europe appeared to lift slightly in the third quarter as its two biggest economies both narrowly escaped a new recession, official data showed on Friday.In Germany, Europes economic powerhouse, gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 0.1 percent in the period from July to September, after...
Russian military flights near US raise concern
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Thursday said Russia had boosted its military flights near US shores and brusquely warned Moscow to abide by international law.Washingtons concerns came only days after a European think tank warned that since Russia annexed Ukraines southern Crimea peninsula earlier this year, the intensity and...
The summit will be attended by the US, Chinese and Russian leaders among others, will focus on promoting growth.
The two-day G-20 Summit starts in Australia tomorrow. The summit will be attended by the US, Chinese and Russian leaders among others, will focus on promoting growth. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had said the leaders would discuss job creation, identifying tax cheats and strengthening the global economy. Tensions with Russia over Ukraine...
Speaker of the Russian State Duma Sergei Naryshkin terms the reports baseless.
Russia has denied reports about its troops deployment in Ukrainian territory. Talking to a visiting delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Moscow, Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin termed the reports baseless. …read more Source: Radio...
