Photo: DPAUS President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America's traditional Western allies. Negotiators from the world's 20 top economies were expected to have worked all night trying to hammer out a final summit statement that at least gives the impression of unity. Trump's most eagerly awaited encounter was a bruising head-to-head - their first - with Russia's strongman President Vladimir Putin lasting two and a quarter hours. The growing rift has turned this year's G20 summit -- normally a ripple-free event in the diplomatic calendar -- into one of the stormiest in the forum's history. The activists failed, however, to prevent G20 leaders making it to Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert hall for a rendition of Beethoven's ninth symphony.

Source: The Local July 08, 2017 03:11 UTC