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...summit •affectionate touching by Michelle Obama of Queen Elizabeth's back somehow manages to become the big story...
...night Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso left for this week's G-20 summit in London, he said at a news conference that he "intended to exert leadership" to bring about concrete, coordinated international efforts to fight the global economic crisis. Now that the summit is being heralded as a success - consensus was reached on plans to clean up banking systems and world leaders pledged more than $1 trillion to support impoverished countries - there's evidence that Japan's embattled Prime Minister may have had an impact...
...which deems an attack on any one member state an attack on all and obliges all to respond collectively. That was the day after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., and it laid the groundwork for NATO's current role in Afghanistan. That's the prime focus of the summit media packages, which include hours of footage of NATO forces in Afghan villages, highlighting projects such as health clinics and schools. "I didn't even know the [Afghan] provinces when I came to NATO five years ago," joked outgoing Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at a NATO Youth Forum...
...future persists. One consolation: while NATO gropes for a raison d'être, so too do some of its detractors - Europe's feisty antiwar organizations. Six years after millions of Europeans took to the streets to demonstrate against U.S. plans to invade Iraq, the protest of the latest NATO summit is a sorry affair by comparison. Some 1,000 activists are camped in tents on the edge of Strasbourg in the so-called anti-NATO village, vowing to disrupt this weekend's summit. Several hundred of them, their faces hidden behind black ski masks, gathered in the camp on Thursday...
...easier to refuse requests from Bush." The demonstrators hurled their bottles at riot police in central Strasbourg on Thursday afternoon before being dispersed by tear gas. Some things have not changed. While activists may take comfort in the arrival of the usual suspects to protest at the NATO summit, it won't help delegates find a sense of common purpose for the next decade...