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Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:31 PM

Published 07/08/2009 by VOA News


G8 Summit Focused on Economy, Climate Change

Leaders of the world's eight major industrial countries, meeting in central Italy are reporting progress in their discussions on efforts to deal with global warming.

U.S. officials at the G-8 summit in the earthquake-ravaged city of L'Aquila say the leaders have agreed...

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