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Germany pessimistic over crisis summit (AP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts as she arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting  at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.  (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP – Germany suggested Wednesday that European leaders could fail to agree on a plan to tighten the continent’s economic ties by the end of the week, dampening investors’ optimism about a broad resolution of Europe’s debt crisis.


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Obama in Bali for summit of East Asian nations (AP)

President Barack Obama waves to the troops after speaking at the Royal Army Air Force Base in Darwin, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – Aiming to knit Asian allies ever closer as China’s might rises, President Barack Obama is completing a nine-day Asia-Pacific trip with a visit to his boyhood home of Indonesia, where he’ll become the first U.S. president to take part in a summit of East Asian nations.


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Obama heads to Bali for East Asian summit (AP)

President Barack Obama greets Australian troops during a visit to Royal Army Air Force Base in Darwin, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – Aiming to knit Asian allies ever closer as China’s might rises, President Barack Obama is completing a nine-day Asia-Pacific trip with a visit to his boyhood home of Indonesia, where he’ll become the first U.S. president to take part in a summit of East Asian nations.


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Obama caps summit diplomacy in Hawaiian home state (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks at a luau after the leaders dinner at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – President Barack Obama on Sunday dove into summit diplomacy, using his home state of Hawaii as an American foothold into the Pacific Rim region of the world he views as an explosive source of 21st century economic power. In the midst of a hard re-election bid, Obama kept his message on jobs, even as he privately lobbied for help on containing the Iranian nuclear threat.


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Syria calls for Arab summit on deepening unrest (AP)

Pro-Syrian regime protesters, carry a giant Syrian flag during a demonstration against the Arab League decision to suspend Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. Tens of thousands of pro-regime demonstrators gathered in a Damascus square Sunday to protest the Arab League's vote to suspend Syria over its bloody crackdown on the country's eight-month-old uprising. Saturday's Arab League decision was a sharp rebuke to a regime that prides itself as a bastion of Arab nationalism, but it was unlikely to immediately end a wave of violence that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 3,500 people since mid-March. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP – The Syrian government has called for an urgent Arab summit to discuss the deepening political unrest in the country.


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IMF role in spotlight at G20 summit (AP)

U.S President Barack Obama arrives for Friday's first working session at the G20 summit in Cannes, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. European leaders had meant to use the summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Cannes, France to get foreign powers like China to help with the debt crisis that has rocked the eurozone for the past two years and threatens to push the world economy into a second recession. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP – Leaders of the world’s biggest economies were scrambling Friday for ways in which they could help Europe ringfence its raging debt crisis without exacerbating their own money troubles.


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EU shift on Greek euro membership rocks G20 summit (AP)

AP – European leaders’ long-delayed admission that a break-up of their cherished common currency was a distinct possibility is overshadowing a two-day meeting of the world’s largest and fastest growing economies beginning Thursday in this Cote d’Azur resort.

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