G-20 summit

A New York Times reporter asked President Joe Biden to raise gasoline prices on middle-class people around the world.

After weeks of speculation about whether President Trump and Xi would meet in Japan, Trump says the meeting will happen.

President Donald Trump on Thursday formally canceled his planned G-20 summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response to Russia’s attack on Ukrainian ships near Crimea last weekend, but the Kremlin insisted on Friday that Putin and Trump will have a “brief impromptu meeting” similar to Putin’s encounters with other summit attendees.

The G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday and Saturday could be the scene of a few momentous encounters as world leaders meet – or refuse to meet – and major strategic conflicts play out. Here are five things to watch for as the summit unfolds.

The Kremlin on Thursday claimed a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would proceed as planned on Saturday at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but a few hours later President Trump canceled the meeting.

Argentina is considering charging Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) with war crimes and torture when he visits Buenos Aires for the G-20 summit this week, the Guardian claimed on Monday.

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its battle group arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday, a friendship visit widely interpreted as an easing of tensions between the U.S. and China just a few weeks after the Chinese refused to allow a U.S. warship to dock in Hong Kong.

On Monday, President Donald Trump said that even though he and Russian President Vladimir Putin will both be in Paris for the Armistice Day commemoration on November 11, they would “probably not” hold a meeting. The Kremlin on Tuesday contradicted Trump and said Putin does expect to meet briefly with him in Paris.

German alt-left Antifa extremists have posted the photographs of 54 Berlin policemen online in an attempt to identify the officers and locate their private addresses.

The head of Germany’s Die Welt newspaper Ulf Poschardt has denounced the violence caused by left wing extremists calling the rioting, “the new fascist violence of the left”.

American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters Friday that President Donald Trump “pressed” President Vladimir Putin several times about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election cycle during their first face-to-face meeting.

Thousands of far-left activists and black-bloc extremists began protests against the G20 summit with their “Welcome to Hell” march against the police, the state, and capitalism, resulting in clashes.

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — The Group of 20 leaders’ summit is getting underway Friday in the German port city of Hamburg in the wake of clashes between police and protesters, with terrorism, global trade and climate change among the issues on the agenda.

In telephone calls ahead of the G20 summit, President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to partner with South Korean president Moon Jae-in and take the lead in the effort to tackle the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles build-up.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump had his first conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the U.S. attack on a Syrian airbase in early April. There are reportedly plans in the works for a face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany in a few weeks.

China’s Internet censors immediately cracked down on search engines and social media outlets after President Xi Jinping accidentally told a group of business leaders to “undress” during a speech at this week’s G-20 summit.

Shortly after President Barack Obama set wheels down Saturday in Hangzhou, China his National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, members of his entourage, and the press corps tangled with Chinese officials both on the flight line and at the West Lake State House minutes before Obama’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jingpin.