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Putin (left) cautioned NATO against looking for a new enemy

No major breakthroughs at G8 summit

Leaders of the world's major industrialised powers have wrapped up a three-day summit without patching up differences over NATO's involvement in Iraq and new initiatives to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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At the Sea Island Summit, a Sea Change in U.S. Diplomacy: After three years of criticizing President Bush for taking a unilateralist approach to foreign policy -- a charge Bush officials maintained was unfair -- foreign officials attending the Group of Eight summit that concluded Thursday said they noticed a distinct shift in the administration's tone and attitude.

State Dept. Concedes Errors in Terror Data: Two months ago, the Bush administration released its annual report card on counterterrorism and gave itself an A. The number of terrorist attacks around the globe, according to the State Department report called "Patterns of Global Terrorism," was at the lowest ebb in the past 34 years.

Martin presses Bush on softwood battle and mad cow ban at start of G-8 summit: Prime Minister Paul Martin says he told President George W. Bush on Tuesday that he's "frustrated" it's taking so long to get the border open to Canadian cattle and resolve the softwood lumber war


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