WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that no American government officials would attend the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa later this month, citing what he called “human rights abuses” in the country. In a statement on his Truth Social platform, Trump accused South Africa’s government of persecuting white […]
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Turkey’s Erdogan skips Glasgow climate conference
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday returned to Turkey from the G20 summit in Rome, canceling his planned attendance at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, according to state media reports. The Anadolu state news agency and other media did not explain why Erdogan decided not to attend. Turkey’s parliament this year finally ratified the Paris […]
G20 leaders seek consensus on climate, economy, vaccines
Leaders of the world’s most advanced nations met Saturday at the G20 summit in Rome hoping to hammer out a way forward on climate change and vaccine equality, with consensus still outstanding on the most pressing global issues. In their first in-person gathering since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the relaunch of the global […]
G20 leaders agree on Bush tributes, but little else
A Sino-US showdown on trade loomed Saturday as G20 leaders wrapped up tense summit talks with a rare show of unity over the death of former president George Bush. There was an implicit contrast in some of the tributes offered at the Buenos Aires summit between Bush and the current White House occupant, Donald Trump, […]
Trump claims win as US, Mexico, Canada sign new trade deal
The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada on Friday signed a huge regional trade deal to replace the old NAFTA, denounced by President Donald Trump as a killer of US jobs. “This is a model agreement that changes the trade landscape forever,” Trump said at the signing ceremony in Buenos Aires, on the […]
Trump faces China trade showdown, Russia, Saudi tensions at G20
President Donald Trump will hold a make-or-break trade meeting with his Chinese counterpart at the G20 summit this week and also navigate a diplomatic minefield with Russia’s president after unrest in Ukraine, the White House said Tuesday. Trump is due to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires for a working dinner at the […]
‘Turkey’s Erdogan may meet Saudi Crown Prince on G20 sidelines’
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Argentina next week amid tensions between Ankara and Riyadh, the Turkish presidential spokesman said Thursday. “We are looking at the programme,” spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in Ankara. “There could be” a meeting between the […]