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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Urges Canada to Promote Abortion at G8 Mtg Ottawa, Canada -- After signing bills over the last two weeks that promote taxpayer funded abortions in a national health care program, the Obama administration is taking its promotion of abortion abroad. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attacked Canada's Prime Minster for not promoting abortion at an upcoming conference. http://LifeNews.com/int1495.html

June 08, 2007, 8:08 a.m. G-8 PrecipiceIt’s a different world. By Victor Davis Hanson The fitting geological metaphor for the so-called G-8 meeting in Germany is not a summit, but a precipice — as the world’s leaders scramble around to grab something before one of them falls into the abyss. The old postwar order is tottering on the brink of Islamism, oil-price hikes, energy shortages, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, Russian belligerency, global-warming concern and hysteria, and war. Europe is at the edge of the chasm, despite its strong euro and strengthening economy. Once convinced that they would serve as a...

For diplomats accustomed to papering over differences, the G8's foreign ministers sounded rather undiplomatic at the news conference following their meeting Thursday. Minutes before Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters the meeting had avoided internal politics, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Kremlin's handling of the media and private groups had, in fact, been discussed. It was, perhaps, a prelude to the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, where U.S. President George W. Bush and other Western leaders may -- or may not -- rebuke Russia for abandoning democracy. Major outstanding questions are when and where that conversation will...