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Agence France-Presse: Stormy G20 ends with opt-outs for Trump on climate, trade

Published July 9, 2017 at 12:13 pm

US President Donald Trump (L), German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) attend the panel discussion "Launch Event Women's Entrepreneur Finance Initiative" on the second day of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 8. Leaders of the world's top economies gather from July 7 to 8, in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade.

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World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies.

But the gesture opened the door for others, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning that Ankara was now leaning towards not ratifying the landmark Paris climate accord.