G8 – and then there were 7
Today’s gathering of world leaders in the Hague to discuss nuclear safety will have an impromptu G7 gathering on its margins and it’s expected to suspend Russia from the club.
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Today’s gathering of world leaders in the Hague to discuss nuclear safety will have an impromptu G7 gathering on its margins and it’s expected to suspend Russia from the club.
Talks over how to deal with Russia begin, including possible expulsion from the G8, as Ukraine withdraws soldiers from Crimea and concerns grow that Moscow is planning further military incursions.
Ministers, scientists and drug company executives gather at a G8 summit in London to discuss dementia, which already affects 44 million people worldwide.
David Cameron told the Commons what a success the G8 summit had been, but Team Cameron’s debrief to colleagues back in No.10 struck a slightly different note.
David Cameron insisted it was a “really strong declaration” and jabbed his pen on the lectern to make his point. He credited the cosiness of the leader sessions with getting the final deal.
David Cameron went for a bracing morning swim in the lough at the G8 summit today. But will the leaders’ discussions over Syria be drowned in disagreement and indecision?
We are at the most delicate and dangerous pivot since the end of the cold war, allied to the United States, France, Saudi Arabia and Qatar – to take but four – against Iran and Russia.
The prime minister tells Jon Snow today’s G8 declaration on taxation is “a real step forward”, while the Syria statement is “crucial” for a country whose future is without President Assad.
The leaders of the G8 nations gather for a “family photo” at the summit in Northern Ireland. But some of the world’s most powerful people seem more comfortable in front of a camera than others…
As world leaders at the G8 summit sign up to a plan to combat tax evasion and money laundering, David Cameron tells Channel 4 News it is a “big step forward”.
Arming the Syrian rebels: David Cameron is like “a man who drags his friend to the bar only to discover he’s got no money himself to buy a round”.
As the G8 summit tees off, non-governmental organisations, armed with praise and planning, are setting the agenda in Fermanagh.
Ed Snowden’s claim that GCHQ spied on delegates at the G20 summit “is timed to create maximum embarrassment to the UK government as it hosts the G8 in Northern Ireland this week”.
Channel 4 News video reports from the G8 summit taking place at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.
The leaders of the G8 nations gather to attend the summit in Northern Ireland on Monday, with Syria’s crisis dominating the agenda.