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            World leaders arriving to pivotal G-20 summit in Argentina



            By LUIS ANDRES HENAO                                                                                                accused  by  Human  Rights
            ANGELA CHARLTON                                                                                                     Watch of war crimes in Ye-
            Associated Press                                                                                                    men  and  responsibility  for
            BUENOS  AIRES,  Argentina                                                                                           the  gruesome  slaying  of
            (AP)  —  World  leaders  be-                                                                                        newspaper  columnist  Ja-
            gan arriving in Buenos Aires                                                                                        mal  Khashoggi  inside  the
            on  Thursday  for  the  sum-                                                                                        Saudi consulate in Istanbul
            mit  of  the  globe's  largest                                                                                      last  month.  On  Wednes-
            economies,  with  attention                                                                                         day,  Argentine  legal  au-
            expected  to  focus  on  is-                                                                                        thorities  took  initial  action
            sues including a trade war                                                                                          to consider a request from
            between the United States                                                                                           Human  Rights  Watch  to
            and  China,  a  new  North                                                                                          prosecute  him  for  alleged
            American  trade  deal  and                                                                                          crimes against humanity, a
            the conflict in Ukraine.                                                                                            move apparently aimed at
            Heads  of  state  from  Italy,                                                                                      embarrassing him as he at-
            Canada, South Korea, Sin-                                                                                           tends the summit.
            gapore  and  Turkey  were                                                                                           In Moscow, the Kremlin said
            among  the  first  in  the                                                                                          that Russian President Vlad-
            country, joining the French                                                                                         imir Putin and U.S. President
            president and Saudi crown                                                                                           Donald  Trump  would  dis-
            prince who arrived the pre-                                                                                         cuss  an  array  of  issues,  in-
            vious day.                    South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, left, is wife Kim Jung-sook, center, and are welcomed by   cluding  nuclear  arms  con-
            The  meeting  could  be  a    Argentina Social Development Minister Carolina Stanley on their arrival to the Ministro Pistarini   trol  at  their  meeting  Satur-
            defining  moment  for  the    international airport to participate in the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Nov.   day on the sidelines of the
            Group  of  20,  for  better  or   29, 2018.                                                                         summit.
            for worse, said Thomas Ber-   Associated Press                                                                      Government     spokesman
            nes of the Centre for Inter-  is at risk of falling into disar-  sion  against  Ukraine  and  or  whether  will  we  witness  Dmitry  Peskov  told  report-
            national Governance Inno-    ray  with  the  summit  being  the  presence  of  the  Saudi  the  crumbling  of  the  G-20  ers that the two leaders will
            vation,  a  Canada-based  overshadowed  by  items  crown prince," Bernes said.  as a forum for international  start  with  one-on-one  talks
            think tank focusing on glob-  not on agenda, such as the  "The true test will be wheth-  economic cooperation."     and then continue broader
            al governance.               United  States  and  China  er  the  other  members  of  The crown prince, Moham-      negotiations  involving  offi-
            "The  G-20  Leader's  Summit  trade  war,  Russia's  aggres-  the G-20 will act resolutely  med bin Salman, has been  cials from both sides. q
             Brazil withdraws offer to host UN climate change conference




             By DIANE JEANTET             "the current fiscal and bud-  vered  on  those  promises.  "Environmental   politics  transition team."
             Associated Press             get  constraints,  which  are  However, climate scientists  can't  muddle  with  Brazil's  "Brazil's participation is vital
             RIO  DE  JANEIRO  (AP)  —  expected to remain in the  have said Bolsonaro's stat-     development,"  Bolsonaro  to meeting global targets,
             Brazil  has  withdrawn  its  near  future,"  the  foreign  ed  intention  to  open  the  said. "Today, the economy  as  our  country  is  currently
             offer  to  host  a  large  U.N.  ministry said in a statement  Amazon for greater devel-  is  almost  back  on  track  the  7th  largest  emitter  of
             conference  on  climate  sent  to  The  Associated  opment could make it im-          thanks to agribusiness, and  greenhouse gases and the
             change next year, the for-   Press.                      possible for Latin America's  they are suffocated by en-  Amazon  has  a  key  role  in
             eign ministry said Wednes-   Environmental  groups  in-  largest  nation  to  meet  its  vironmental questions."  regulating global climate,"
             day,  leading  environmen-   terpreted the decision as a  reduced  emissions  targets  The  World  Wildlife  Fund  in  the  group  said  in  a  state-
             tal  groups  to  question  the  nod to President-elect Jair  in the coming years.     Brazil noted that the deci-  ment.
             government's      commit-    Bolsonaro,  who  promised  Bolsonaro  told  reporters  sion not to host next year's  The Brazilian candidacy to
             ment  to  reducing  carbon  during his campaign to pull  late  Wednesday  that  he  conference diverged from  host  next  year's  meeting
             emissions.                   Brazil  out  of  the  Paris  ac-  had recommended to the  the position shared by Bra-  was  to  be  reviewed  dur-
             Brazil pulled its offer to host  cord on climate change.  incoming  foreign  minis-   zilian  officials  before  the  ing this year's conference,
             the  2019  climate  change  Since  being  elected,  Bol-  ter  that  Brazil  not  host  the  elections,  "demonstrating  which begins this weekend
             conference  because  of  sonaro  has  publicly  wa-      event.                       the strong influence of the  in Katowice, Poland.q
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