Germany not yet prepared to recognize Taliban – Merkel
BERLIN — Germany is not yet prepared to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s government since it has not met the inclusiveness standards demanded of it, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, but she...
View ArticleG20 leaders agree to step up Afghan humanitarian effort
ROME — G20 leaders agreed Tuesday to work together to avoid a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, as the EU pledged a one-billion-euro aid package and host Italy stressed the need to maintain...
View ArticleUS, Indonesia call for new G20 forum to prepare for next pandemic
WASHINGTON — The world’s biggest economies should create a forum to facilitate global coordination for the next pandemic, as well as a new financing facility to keep up with emerging threats, U.S....
View ArticleClimate set to dominate G20 summit ahead of U.N. conference
ROME – If high-stakes climate talks are to succeed next month in Glasgow, the initial signs of progress may emerge this weekend when leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies hold their first...
View ArticleActivists call on G20 leaders to end global vaccine inequality
ROME — Activists from charity groups on Friday held a flash mob in Rome ahead of the G20 leaders’ summit, calling on leaders of the world’s biggest economies to end inequalities between nations in...
View ArticleG20 leaders face tough climate talks on second day of summit
ROME – Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies sit down for a second day of talks on Sunday faced with the difficult task of bridging their differences on how to combat global warming ahead of a...
View ArticleBrazil’s Bolsonaro met with protests in Italy visit
PISTOIA, Italy — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was met by jeering protesters when he visited the Italian town of Pistoia on Tuesday to pay homage to a war memorial dedicated to Brazilian soldiers...
View ArticleIndonesia to urge G20 to establish global health fund
JAKARTA – Indonesia will urge the Group of 20 leading economies to establish a global body that can dispense emergency funds during a health crisis, functioning in a similar way to international...
View ArticleRussia’s G20 membership under fire from US, Western allies
WASHINGTON — The United States and its Western allies are assessing whether Russia should remain within the Group of Twenty (G20) grouping of major economies following its invasion of Ukraine, sources...
View ArticleG20 targets raising $1.5 billion for global pandemic fund, says host Indonesia
JAKARTA — The Group of 20 (G20) major economies aims to raise $1.5 billion this year for a fund set up to better prepare for future pandemics, the health minister of current G20 president Indonesia...
View ArticleUS urges G20 to press Russia to reopen sea lanes for grain delivery
WASHINGTON — Food and energy security will figure prominently in a meeting of G20 foreign minister in Bali this week and the group’s members should insist Russia support U.N. efforts to reopen sea...
View ArticleUS does not expect any Blinken-Lavrov meeting at G20 this week
WASHINGTON — U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday he does not expect any meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov at this...
View ArticleRussia’s Lavrov calls for efforts to protect international laws
HANOI — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday called on all parties in the world to make efforts to protect international laws as “the world is evolving in a complicated manner.” Lavrov...
View ArticleG20 ministers to meet in Bali with Ukraine top of agenda
BALI, Indonesia – The Group of 20 will meet in Bali Friday with the United States pushing the world’s top economies to pressure Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, as Washington and Moscow’s top...
View ArticleChina, Russia’s ties show ‘strong resilience’, ‘strategic resolve’– Wang Yi
BEIJING — China and Russia have maintained normal exchanges and promoted cooperation in various fields and cast aside any “interference,” showing the “strong resilience” and “strategic resolve” of...
View ArticleUS, China top diplomats meet in new bid to lower the temperature
BALI, Indonesia – The top diplomats from the United States and China are set to meet Saturday in Bali in a fresh bid to prevent sky-high tensions from spiralling out of control. Secretary of State...
View ArticleG20 finance chiefs resolved on food security; Ukraine war prevents formal...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — The Group of 20 major economies’ finance chiefs on Saturday pledged to address global food insecurity and rising debt, but made few policy breakthroughs amid divisions over...
View ArticleRussia has no moral right to sit at G20, says Britain
LONDON — Russia has no moral right to sit at the Group of 20 (G20) nations while it presses on with its invasion of Ukraine, a spokesperson for Britain’s foreign ministry said Friday. “Russia has no...
View ArticleUkrainian presidential aide: Russia should be expelled from G20
KYIV — Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said after a new wave of Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian cities on Monday that Russia should be expelled from the Group of 20 major economies...
View ArticleG20 host Indonesia has ‘strong impression’ Putin will skip Bali summit–FT
JAKARTA — Russian President Vladimir Putin may miss next week’s G20 leaders summit, his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo and host of the bloc of major economies told media on Monday. Joko said a...
View ArticleUkraine seeks G20 focus on Russian deportations of children
Ukraine has collated thousands of reports of its children being deported to Russia and wants their plight addressed at a summit of the Group of 20 major economies, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief...
View ArticleBiden’s COP27, G20 plans: Talk to Xi, pressure Russia, contain North Korea
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden starts a week-long trip to Egypt and Asia on Thursday to grapple with some of the United States’ thorniest foreign policy issues, boosted by a better-than-expected...
View ArticleWith Biden and Xi to meet, China warns US on Taiwan briefing
BEIJING — China on Friday condemned a White House plan to brief Taiwan on the results of a much-anticipated meeting between President Joe Biden and his counterpart, Xi Jinping, next week on the...
View ArticleG20 ministers launch billion-dollar pandemic fund
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — G20 health and finance ministers launched a $1.4-billion fund Sunday to tackle the next global pandemic ahead of the bloc’s leaders gathering for a summit on the Indonesian resort...
View ArticleBiden and Xi center stage as G20 gathers in Indonesia
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Leaders from the world’s 20 largest economies arrive on the Indonesian island Bali on Monday for a post-pandemic reunion chilled by Sino-US rivalry and overshadowed by a...
View ArticleWhy Putin is staying away from G20
MOSCOW — The last time Russian President Vladimir Putin found himself isolated at a G20 summit was in 2014, soon after he seized Crimea — and he was so shunned that he left early. Eight years later,...
View ArticleErdogan arrives at Indonesia G20 after Istanbul blast
DENPASAR — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan touched down in Bali, Indonesia on Monday to attend the G20 summit, hours after his home city of Istanbul was rocked by an explosion that authorities...
View ArticleG20 starts in Bali as Ukraine war, raging inflation top agenda
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies open talks on Tuesday on the island of Bali, after a final pitch by host Indonesia for the bloc to focus on action to help a...
View ArticleG20 chair Indonesia: world cannot move forward if war does not end
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — G20 chair Indonesian President Joko Widodo called on Tuesday for unity at the bloc’s 2022 summit and said that the group must not allow the world to fall into another cold war and...
View ArticleG20 talks enter final day as emergency meeting held over Poland blasts
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) economies will hold a second day of talks on Wednesday, although the schedule at the summit was disrupted by an emergency meeting to discuss...
View ArticleMost G20 nations condemn Russia for war, China silent
BENGALURU, India — Finance chiefs of the world’s largest economies strongly condemned Moscow for its war on Ukraine on Saturday, with only China and Russia itself declining to sign a joint statement....
View ArticleUkraine war, US-China tensions to dominate G20 foreign ministers meet
NEW DELHI — Foreign ministers from around the world meet in New Delhi this week in the shadow of Russia’s war in Ukraine and spiraling U.S.-China tensions, with host India hoping that issues like...
View ArticleModi calls for unity at G20 dominated by Ukraine
NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Thursday for the G20 to bridge differences over Ukraine, telling the opening of a meeting in New Delhi that global governance has “failed”. “The...
View ArticleIndia’s Modi seeks African Union’s full membership in G20
NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to the leaders of the G20 nations proposing the African Union be given full, permanent membership of the diplomatic group at its upcoming...
View ArticleChina denies reports it obstructed G20 climate discussions
Reports that China obstructed discussions on reducing fossil fuel use at last week’s Group of 20 (G20) meetings in the southern Indian city of Chennai are “inconsistent with the facts”, China’s foreign...
View ArticleAs G20 leaders prepare to meet in recently flooded New Delhi, climate policy...
NEW DELHI — Rekha Devi, a 30-year-old farm worker, is dreading the moment when her family will be ordered to leave their makeshift tent atop a half-built overpass and return to the Yamuna River...
View ArticleIndia’s prime minister uses the G20 summit to advertise his global reach,...
NEW DELHI — Major roads in New Delhi are teeming with giant posters and billboards announcing India’s presidency of this week’s summit of the Group of 20 nations. And one leader’s picture — smiling...
View ArticleBiden looks past differences on Russia, embraces imperfect partners
HANOI, Vietnam — President Joe Biden on Monday wrapped up a five-day diplomatic sprint through Vietnam and India that put a spotlight on imperfect partners that he believes will be crucial for global...
View ArticleRiding India’s G20 wave, Modi’s party sets up for elections
NEW DELHI — The weekend G20 summit was India’s big moment on the world stage, giving the country an opportunity to work on global issues and providing Prime Minister Narendra Modi a chance to present...
View ArticleBrazil calls for UN reform as it starts its G20 presidency
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s foreign minister called for reforms of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions Wednesday while criticizing their inability to prevent global conflicts, as his...
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