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At the G8 Summit: World Leaders Meet Low Expectations
At the G8 Summit in Italy, President Obama's being looked to for leadership on world finance and global warming. Is progress likely or is the G8 an anachronistic waste of time? Also, a cyberattack on US government websites, and Mexican voters have dealt a severe blow to President Felipe Caldéron.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenAt the G8 Summit in Italy, President Obama's being looked to for leadership on world finance and global warming. Is progress likely or is the G8 an anachronistic waste of time? Also, a cyberattack on US government websites. On Reporter's Notebook, Mexico is dealing with drug violence and a shrinking economy. Now voters have dealt conservative President Felipe Calderón a stunning set-back. Is it a mandate for return to the PRI?
Banner image: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (5nd R) visit quake-ravaged hamlet Onna before the start of the G8 summit. Photo: Steffen Kugler-Pool/Getty Images
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3 storiesCyberattack Hits US Government Websites
Computers from all over the world overwhelmed major websites this weekend in South Korea and the United States. Targets included the White House, the Pentagon, the New York Stock Exchange and the Washington Post. Robert McMillan is senior writer, covering computer crime, for IDG News .
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The leaders of the US, Japan, Russia, Canada, Germany, France and Britain and some 3500 reporters have crowded into L'Aquila, Italy, a town still feeling aftershocks from a devastating earthquake in April.
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The Institutional Revolutionary Party ruled Mexico for 70 years until it was discredited and ousted nine years ago. Felipe Calderón is the second president of the PAN, the National Action Party, but in parliamentary elections this weekend, the PRI stormed back, winning five of six governorships and a majority in Congress' lower house.
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