Reports say black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful protesters at the G20 summit in Toronto, torching a police cruiser in the financial district and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers.
The G8 has been accused of failing to honour aid commitments made five years ago at its summit in Scotland. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, donor countries have only reached around 60 percent of their targets. Professor Michel Chossudovsky from the University of Ottawa says even this money fails to help those who need it most.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Toronto to demonstrate against the twin G8 and G20 summits.
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Leaders of the world's major industrial countries, representing 85 percent of the global economy, will meet in Canada starting Friday for economic summits of the Group of Eight and G-20 nations. The G-8 summit of large industrial nations begins Friday in Huntsville, Ontario, three hours north of Toronto. It is followed on Saturday and Sunday by the G-20 summit, which brings leaders of an influential grouping of both rich and developing nations to central Toronto. In preparation, Toronto's downtown resembles a fortress with thousands of police. A big steel and concrete fence surrounds several blocks around the summit site.
tinyurl.com President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took a break from bilateral meetings at the White House on Thursday to make a burger run. Traveling by motorcade, the two presidents ventured to Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va., a popular hamburger joint just outside the nation's capital. Obama ate there last year with Vice President Joe Biden. A cheer went up from customers when the presidents walked in. During their meal, Obama and Medvedev sat at a table with their interpreters, sharing a conversation through them. The US president had a cheeseburger with cheddar cheese, onion, lettuce, tomato and pickles. His Russian counterpart had a cheeseburger with cheddar, onion, jalapenos and mushrooms. Obama drank ice tea, Medvedev sipped a Coke, and they split fries. Both leaders were in a shirt sleeves on a sweltering summer day. Other customers were seen enjoying their own meals and large
