G8:  U.S. Cooling Off to Summit
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BERLIN, May 18 (IPS) - The United States appears to be cooling off to some  key concerns at the G8 heads of state  summit next month.
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Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight nations met Wednesday to lay the groundwork for next week&#39;s summit in Germany as discord over climate change and Kosovo cast a shadow over the talks.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Major developing nations pledged to do an unspecified "fair share" to fight climate change on Friday after a summit with G8 leaders during which President George W. Bush appealed for their help.
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In advance of the G8 summit, European leaders are wary of the President's new proposal on addressing climate change
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Japan is trying to take the lead on climate change at this week's G-8 summit, but the world's second-largest economy is falling behind on its existing obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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LONDON -- The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight to agree to tough cuts in climate warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the communique to be presented to next month's meeting.
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Less than a week before the G8 summit, tensions between the United States and Russia reached a new peak Thursday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Washington of starting a new arms race over its plans to develop a missile defense shield in Europe.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Group of Eight leaders seeking to focus on climate change and Africa at their summit this week may find it hard not to be distracted by the Russian bear glowering in the room.
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The Bush administration says it will host a meeting of G8 diplomats this week in Washington in a bid to resolve a nuclear impasse with Iran.
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Tony Blair will get short shrift from George W. Bush on global warming when he leads the G8 in 2005 but the fight with Washington might help him shed the "poodle" tag he got over support for the Iraq war, analysts say.
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The divisions threatened to overshadow a summit aimed at making the E.U. the world leader in the battle against climate change.
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Viewpoint: Global leaders  still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5 (IPS) - When leaders of the world's most advanced  economies -- also known as the Group of Eight (G8) -- tried to  set new targets to fight climate change at their summit in  Britain in 2005, the United States balked.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - U.S. President George W. Bush sought to calm tensions with Moscow on Thursday ahead of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany.
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Talks on global warming in the United States next week may be complicated by differences among developing countries as their climate policy positions diverge.
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The Bush administration has been working for months to keep an upcoming eight-nation report from endorsing broad policies aimed at curbing global warming, according to domestic and foreign
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WASHINGTON, Jun 4 (IPS) - An ever-deteriorating situation in Iraq, a hostile  Democratic Congress and a changing of the guard in some key  allies may all combine to bring about a more cooperative, and  perhaps more subdued, President George W. Bush at the summit of  the Group of Eight most industrialised nations.