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From: The Washington Times | July 10, 2009
L’AQUILA, Italy | Trying to fight a rising tide of protectionism, leaders of the world’s top economies Thursday vowed to restart moribund global trade talks and have the on-again-off-again negotiations finished by the end of next year. The leaders, meeting in Italy as part of a summit of leaders from the Group of Eight top economies, also agreed to major reductions in their greenhouse-gas emissions in the coming decades to fight global warming, though major developing countries balked at imposing targets on themselves. Still, President Obama called the pledge a “historic” achievement in securing at least some commitments from the …
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