<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>G-8: News &amp; Videos about G-8 - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/G_8</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about G-8 from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:16:06 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>G-8: News &amp; Videos about G-8 - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/US/09/24/us.g.twenty.summit/tztop.geithner.g20.cnn.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/G_8</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about G-8 from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Officials: G-20 to supplant G-8 as international economic council</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/24/us.g.twenty.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/24/us.g.twenty.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Leaders of the G-20 economic summit will announce Friday that the group will become the new permanent council for international economic cooperation, senior U.S. officials told CNN Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama says G-8 talks 'highly productive'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/10/g8.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/10/g8.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama declared the G-8 summit Friday "highly productive," writing off suggestions that the United States did not get some key things it wanted out of the meeting.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama: G-8 has shown Iran 'door' to diplomatic engagement</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/10/obama.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/10/obama.iran/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama argued Friday that the Group of Eight nations had sent a clear message to Iran: The world will not "wait indefinitely" and allow the country to build nuclear weapons.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 promises may have some legs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/10/news/international/g8_meeting_italy.breakingviews/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/10/news/international/g8_meeting_italy.breakingviews/index.htm</guid><description>The cynical view is tempting: World leaders have made yet another feel-good, empty pledge they will forget as soon as they return to their domestic concerns.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama: Leaders will work together on climate</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/09/g8.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/09/g8.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Leaders of both industrialized powers and emerging economies have agreed to work together on setting a goal to limit global warming to levels recommended by scientists, U.S. President Barack Obama said at the G-8 summit.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G-8 leaders have ambitious environmental goals</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/08/g8.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/08/g8.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Leaders of the world's most powerful economies pledged to seek huge cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions at a summit in Italy on Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Greenpeace members charged in Mount Rushmore G-8 protest</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/08/south.dakota.protest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/08/south.dakota.protest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Eleven members of Greenpeace pleaded not guilty to federal charges after they were arrested for hanging a banner on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore Wednesday to protest global warming as the G-8 summit in Italy begins.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>World leaders arrive for G-8 quake zone summit</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/08/g8.meeting.advancer/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/08/g8.meeting.advancer/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Leaders of the world's most powerful economies were meeting Wednesday in the center of an Italian earthquake zone for a summit that, despite an agenda tackling the global financial crisis, world poverty and climate change, is not expected to produce seismic results.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Time to retire the G8 summit</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/08/news/international/g8_meeting_italy.breakingviews/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/08/news/international/g8_meeting_italy.breakingviews/index.htm</guid><description>Failure would be welcome. It's too bad that the leaders of western powers convening in Italy will do their utmost to pretend to avoid it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Polar blog: 'There's something afoot in the Arctic'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/07/arctic.explorer.climate.change/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/07/arctic.explorer.climate.change/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks set for a flat open</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/07/markets/premarkets/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/07/markets/premarkets/index.htm</guid><description>U.S. stocks were poised for a nearly flat open Tuesday as the concerns about the global economic recovery continued ahead of the G8 summit and the initial second-quarter corporate results.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 can weep together, or fight together</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/06/news/economy/g8_meeting_italy.breakingviews/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/06/news/economy/g8_meeting_italy.breakingviews/index.htm</guid><description>The annual G8 summit could be a time for mutual commiseration. The leaders of rich countries who will gather in Italy this week share many economic woes. From London to Paris and Washington to Moscow, what used to be different "models" or economic systems are converging fast on the way down. It would be tempting to trade moans about bank bailouts and bankruptcies, shrinking GDPs and widening deficits.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil slides to near $70</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/15/markets/oil/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/15/markets/oil/index.htm</guid><description>Oil sold off Monday to settle near the $70 mark as the dollar rose, stocks fell, and a slew of global events put downward pressure on prices.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Six arrested over plot to attack G-8 summit</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/11/italy.red.brigades/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/11/italy.red.brigades/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An investigation into the Italian left-wing terrorist group the Red Brigades has led to the arrest of six people who Rome police say were plotting an attack on next month's G-8 summit.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protesters always early adopters of technology</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/31/g20.activists/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/31/g20.activists/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Headlines proclaiming that G-20 activists and police are following each others' activities on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites may give one the impression that a new age of surveillance and political activism has dawned.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Data: U.S. teachers contracted to work longer than G-8 counterparts</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/25/group.of.eight.education/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/25/group.of.eight.education/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Teachers in the United States are contracted to work more hours than their counterparts in other Group of Eight countries, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Call for a Global Summit to Reshape Banking</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1850925,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1850925,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description> The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced Wednesday they will hold a global summit</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The global economy players: Which organization does what?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/11/global.economy.players/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/11/global.economy.players/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Organizations that have a role in the global financial system:</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Top lawmakers to Bush: Meet with G8 over economy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/bush.g8/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/bush.g8/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi urged President Bush Thursday to call an emergency meeting with the G8 to address international financial instability.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G-8: Bush Hails Climate Change Work

</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1821173,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1821173,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Bush on Wednesday hailed the move by G-8 leaders to coalesce behind a global climate-change strategy, claiming "significant progress"</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 leaders warn Iran and Zimbabwe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/08/g8.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/08/g8.zimbabwe/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The leaders of the Group of Eight nations expressed concerns Tuesday about Iran's nuclear program and Zimbabwe's election crisis.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Environmentalists dismiss G-8 emissions target</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/08/g8.climate.change/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/08/g8.climate.change/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A call from the world's most powerful nations to establish the goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 2050, was criticized by environmentalists Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G-8: Oil prices pose risk to world economy</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/international/g8_energy_prices/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/international/g8_energy_prices/index.htm</guid><description>Leaders of the Group of Eight nations expressed long-term optimism Tuesday about their economies. They also expressed concern over high commodity prices, including the prices of food and oil.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The G-8 Start With a Focus on Africa</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819678_1820659_1820730,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819678_1820659_1820730,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Host Japan puts the spotlight on the poorest of continents to help rectify aid shortcomings and improve the climate for future business</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>India's Nuclear Gamble at the G-8</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819678_1820659,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1819678_1820659,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Manmohan Singh is in Japan to have a few informal -- but crucial -- discussions about a controversial deal between the U.S. and India to share civilian nuclear technology</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The world in their hands: What can come from the G8 summit?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/19/green.g8/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/19/green.g8/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>From July 7 to 9, the small town of Toyako in Japan will become the center of the world when the leaders of the G8 countries meet for their annual summit.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Olympics: Bush Aims Not to Offend</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1820548,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1820548,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Bush on Sunday defended his decision to attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush lowers expectations for his final G-8 summit</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/05/g8/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/05/g8/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Bush heads to Japan on Saturday for his final G-8 summit of world leaders as the global economy slumps, energy prices soar and food shortages loom in the developing world.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Going beyond the green-washing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/green.intro/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/20/green.intro/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>CNN is "Going Green" in the pursuit of the most innovative and effective solutions to the world's most pressing problems.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair Campaigns for Climate Action</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818783,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1818783,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Ahead of next week's G8 summit in Japan, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for a united front against global warming</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G-8 Ministers Concerned Over Oil</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1814658,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1814658,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost output</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: $45 Trillion to Fight Warming</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812325,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812325,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades,
 build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in
 order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Does the G-8 Summit Have a Point?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630838,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630838,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The protesters came, and the leaders talked. But increasingly the annual gathering looks like an anachronism</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Next Move on Global Warming</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630489,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630489,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>George Bush again played roadblock-in-chief at the G8 summit. But he has a point: the G8 is largely irrelevant to making real progress on carbon emissions  </description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Activists slam G8 pledge on Africa</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/08/g8.africa/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/08/g8.africa/index.html</guid><description>Development campaigners have criticized a pledge by the leaders of the world's richest nations on Friday to give $60 billion to fight diseases such as AIDS in Africa.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 finale: Africa in the spotlight</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/08/g8.climatechange/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/08/g8.climatechange/index.html</guid><description>Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized nations will end their summit Friday with a pledge to help nations on the world's poorest continent.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 backs climate-change science, sets no hard goals</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/07/g8.climatechange/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/07/g8.climatechange/index.html</guid><description>Leaders from the world's eight major industrialized nations "accepted the latest scientific evidence" of the dangers of global warming Thursday but set no targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush downplays tension with Russia at G8</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/06/germany.summit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/06/germany.summit/index.html</guid><description>Tension between the United States and Russia over a missile-defense system in Europe is likely to take center stage at the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations in Germany, which started Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GM unveils new 4-door Pontiac G8</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/AUTOS/02/07/chicago_pontiac_g8/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/AUTOS/02/07/chicago_pontiac_g8/index.html</guid><description>General Motors will unveil a new Pontiac sedan at the Chicago Auto Show today.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 calls for end to Mideast strife</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/16/russia.g8.mideast/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/16/russia.g8.mideast/index.html</guid><description>In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, the leaders of the Group of Eight economic powers issued a statement of "deepening concern" about the situation in the Middle East.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush's energy triumph</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/14/bush.energy/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/14/bush.energy/index.html</guid><description>Overshadowed by the London terrorist attack and largely ignored by inattentive news media, the declaration on global warming at the G-8 summit of industrialized nations sounded far more like George W. Bush than Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Analysis: London bombers strengthen Blair</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/10/britain.oakley/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/10/britain.oakley/index.html</guid><description>The terrorist attacks on London could have wrecked one of the pinnacles of Tony Blair's career -- his ambitious attempt as chairman of the G8 nations to secure a major step-change in aid for Africa and to get the G8 nations to commit together to a new wave of action to reduce global warming.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair lauds G8 doubling of aid to Africa</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/08/g8.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/08/g8.main/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced "very substantial progress" in addressing African poverty at the G8 summit on Friday, but acknowledged only limited advancement on the other top issue on the agenda, global climate change.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quijano: Bush not planning to leave G-8 meeting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/07/quijano.bush/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/07/quijano.bush/index.html</guid><description>CNN Correspondent Elaine Quijano is in Scotland where the G-8 is meeting.  She talked with CNN's Soledad O'Brien about President Bush's reaction to four explosions in London's transport system Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 leaders condemn 'barbaric' attacks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/blair.statement/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/blair.statement/index.html</guid><description>Flanked by the somber leaders of the world's largest industrial nations at the G8 summit in Scotland, British Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned what he said were likely terrorist attacks in London.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>World leaders condemn attacks, offer support</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/world.reax/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/world.reax/index.html</guid><description>World leaders expressed their condolences to the British people Thursday and sent messages to Prime Minister Tony Blair that they were united in the fight against terrorism.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair back at G8 summit after bomb</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/g8.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/g8.main/index.html</guid><description>Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations are continuing their summit in defiance of the deadly explosions that rocked London.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 leaders gather amid protests</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/06/g8.wed/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/06/g8.wed/index.html</guid><description>As the leaders of the world's richest nations arrived at a central Scotland resort, hundreds of protesters stormed a field surrounding the Gleneagles Hotel in an effort to bring their messages to the annual G8 summit.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 protesters clash with police</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/06/g8.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/06/g8.main/index.html</guid><description>Protesters clashed with police, smashing car windows and throwing rocks, just hours before the world's eight richest nations were set to open their annual meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2005 04:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Warning as G8 clashes turn violent</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/05/g8.tuesday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/05/g8.tuesday/index.html</guid><description>As many as 100 protesters have begun appearing in court following violent clashes with police as officials promised zero tolerance for troublemakers ahead of Wednesday's G8 summit.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police scuffle with G8 protesters</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/04/g8.monday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/04/g8.monday/index.html</guid><description>Police and protesters scuffled in Edinburgh ahead of Wednesday's G8 summit as officials braced for more demonstrations and the possibility of a terrorist attack.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quest's backstage blog</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/03/live8.quest.backstage/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/03/live8.quest.backstage/index.html</guid><description>CNN correspondent Richard Quest offers a behind-the-scenes look at Live 8 in Philadelphia and looks forward to the G8 summit in Scotland.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Live 8 puts pressure on G8 leaders</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/03/g8live8/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/03/g8live8/index.html</guid><description>After the success of Live 8, the largest live concert ever held, politicians said people power could make a difference as Group of Eight (G8) leaders prepared to meet to discuss Africa.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Millions gather for Live 8  </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/02/live8.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/02/live8.main/index.html</guid><description>Millions were gathering at concert venues across the world Saturday for a massive musical effort to focus attention on global poverty.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghanistan, Mideast top G8 agenda</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/23/g8.foreign.ministers/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/23/g8.foreign.ministers/index.html</guid><description>Foreign ministers from the world's richest countries have promised support for Afghanistan's democratic struggle and called for an orderly Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Putin backs Blair debt deal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/13/uk.blair.meetings/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/13/uk.blair.meetings/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair has won the backing of Russia for an agreement on tackling African poverty and climate change.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 ministers back Africa debt deal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/12/uk.g8.africa.0733/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/12/uk.g8.africa.0733/index.html</guid><description>Finance ministers from the world's wealthiest nations have agreed to a historic accord to cancel up to $55 billion worth of debt owed by the world's poorest nations.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>African relief: Praise and caution</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/12/uk.g8.africa/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/12/uk.g8.africa/index.html</guid><description>The new head of the World Bank has praised a historic agreement by Group of Eight finance ministers to cancel up to $55 billion in foreign debt owed by some of the world's poorest nations.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2005 06:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hopes raised of Africa debt deal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/10/g8.africa/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/10/g8.africa/index.html</guid><description>Hopes of an accord on debt relief for poor African nations were raised Friday with reports of an agreement between the United States and Britain on writing off $16.7 billion owed by 18 countries.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair faces tough tasks before G8</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/08/blair.bush.africa/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/08/blair.bush.africa/index.html</guid><description>British Prime Minister Tony Blair was back in London Wednesday facing tough negotiations on deals to boost aid for Africa and curb global warming in time for next month's G8 summit in Scotland.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Blair push African debt relief</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/07/bush.blair.africa/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/07/bush.blair.africa/index.html</guid><description>The United States and Britain are working on a plan to provide full debt relief for African countries that are "on the path to reform," U.S. President George W. Bush has said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Live 8' concerts to fight poverty</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/31/live8.geldof/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/31/live8.geldof/index.html</guid><description>Twenty years after he staged Live Aid to help save the starving in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof has announced plans for new concerts to fight poverty in Africa.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2005 12:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: No new NATO troops to Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/10/g8.summit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/10/g8.summit/index.html</guid><description>President Bush said the Group of Eight leaders were "committed to the success of Iraq's government," but that no more troops from NATO countries would be sent to the country.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G8 protest draws small crowd</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/06/08/g8.protest.am/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/06/08/g8.protest.am/index.html</guid><description>Marking the start of the Group of Eight Summit, several dozen protesters gathered Tuesday in Savannah's Forsyth Park, flanked by almost as many members of the media.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic summit will likely focus on Mideast</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/08/g8.summit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/08/g8.summit/index.html</guid><description>Heads of the world's leading economic powers have began gathering in the U.S. state of Georgia for their annual G8 summit, where Iraq is dominating discussions.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Koizumi to brief on N. Korea issue</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/08/koizumi.summit/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/08/koizumi.summit/index.html</guid><description>Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will brief U.S. President George W. Bush on the North Korean nuclear issue during the Group of Eight summit this week at the U.S. resort of Sea Island, Georgia.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hotels full, beaches bare as summit approaches</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/06/07/g8.stsimons.scene/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/06/07/g8.stsimons.scene/index.html</guid><description>While the world refocuses its attention to the G8 summit a few miles from here, the beaches are nearly empty, and the only people boating offshore are the police and Coast Guard.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>G-8 leaders aim to heal Iraq rift</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/07/g8.oakley/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/07/g8.oakley/index.html</guid><description>Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meet this week in an effort to put behind them the divisions of Iraq and instead concentrate on terrorism and its likely effect on world oil prices.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mideast leaders invited to G-8</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/24/G8.invitees/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/24/G8.invitees/index.html</guid><description>U.S. President George W. Bush has invited the leaders of Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan and Yemen to meet with G-8 leaders at next month's summit in the coastal resort town of Sea Island, in the U.S. state of Georgia.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 02:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tech Into Plowshares As the gap between the developed             world and the developing world has grown, so have anti-U.S.   </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/15/311521/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/10/15/311521/index.htm</guid><description>On my 11th birthday, back in 1964, I moved from the North Shore suburbs of Chicago to Lagos, Nigeria. My father ran a project there to spur industrial develop-ment. In my two years in Africa's most...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>