G8 Summit

• Barack Obama holds G7 summit as Russia tightens Crimea grip

  US President Barack Obama arrived in the Netherlands on Monday to discuss with six other world leaders how to punish Russia for annexing Ukraine's Crimea region, including possibly excluding Moscow from the G8 club of rich nations.

• Barack Obama expresses deep concern on Ukraine, may skip G8 summit

  The United States warned on Friday that President Barack Obama and other European leaders could snub the G8 summit in Sochi if they judge Russia is usurping Ukraine's sovereignty.

• US spied on 2010 global summit in Toronto: Report

  CBC News in Canada is citing documents shared by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in reporting that Canadian authorities allowed the U.S. agency to spy in the country during the G8 and G20 summits in Ontario in 2010.

• Together again, Barack Obama and Vladamir Putin are 'odd couple' at G20 summit

  A brief photo-op on Thursday between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin spoke volumes, limited mostly to tight smiles and a business-like handshake between U.S. and Russian leaders bitterly divided by the crisis in Syria.

• Barack Obama's big oops moment at G8 summit

  US President Barack Obama repeatedly called British finance minister George Osborne "Jeffrey" at the G8 summit, media reported on Thursday.

• Barack Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions

  Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce US and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."

• Vladimir Putin locks horns with West over Syria at G8 summit

  Russian President Vladimir Putin clashed with other world leaders over the civil war in Syria at a tense G8 summit, blocking any mention of the fate of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad from a final communique to be issued on Tuesday.

• Vladimir Putin faces isolation over Syria as G8 ratchets up pressure

  Russian President Vladimir Putin faced further isolation on the second day of a G8 summit on Tuesday as world leaders lined up to pressure him into toning down his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

• Russia's Vladimir Putin says West is arming Syrian rebels who eat human flesh

  Russian President Vladimir Putin, arriving in Britain ahead of an international summit set to be dominated by disagreement over the US decision to send weapons to Syria's rebels, said the West must not arm fighters who eat human flesh.

• Barack Obama to host David Cameron on Monday: White House

  US President Barack Obama will meet British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House on Monday to discuss Syria and the G8 summit next month in Northern Ireland, officials said.

• Wartime rape preventable, Angelina Jolie tells G8 ministers

  Angelina Jolie said on Thursday that rape in war zones was preventable and urged foreign ministers of some the world's most powerful nations to boost efforts to bring wartime sex offenders to justice.

• G8 ministers condemn North Korea 'in strongest terms'

  Foreign ministers from the G8 group of rich countries condemned "in the strongest possible terms" North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology on Thursday and called for more humanitarian aid to help civilians in Syria.

• Britain urges bold G8 action on global economy

  British Prime Minister David Cameron called on his fellow G8 leaders on Wednesday to start work now on agreeing "bold steps" to help boost global economic growth, ahead of a summit he will host in June.

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  Internet bosses woo world leaders at 'e-G8'

  The world's most powerful Internet and media barons gather in Paris for the G8 summit

• Asia stocks mixed after G8 vague on Europe fix

  Asian stock markets struggled for direction Monday, with investors unconvinced that the world's major economies nailed a solution to the European debt crisis following a summit in Washington.